1928 PRINCESS ALICE MURIEL ASTOR SERGE OBOLENSKY IRA HILL INSERT PRINT FC10166 For Sale

1928 PRINCESS ALICE MURIEL ASTOR SERGE OBOLENSKY IRA HILL INSERT PRINT FC10166

DATE OF THIS**ORIGINAL** ITEM:1928

THIS ITEM IS A ONE-PAGEPRINTFROM ANORIGINALPERIODICAL.THEREIS ONEPHOTO, SO PLEASELOOK OVER CAREFULLY FOR SIZE AND CONDITION! NOTE: SOME PHOTOS MAY HAVE A BLACK BOX COVERING UP THE NAME OF THE PERIODICAL - IT IS ONLY LAYING ON TOP OF THE ITEM - NOT PERMANENT.

ILLUSTRATOR / ARTIST:REAL PHOTO INSERT PHOTOGRAPHY IRA L. HILL

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Ava Alice Muriel Astor(July 7, 1902 – July 19, 1956) was an American heiress,socialite, and member of the prominentAstor family. Ava Astor was born on July 7, 1902, inManhattan,New York City. She was the only daughter ofColonelJohn Jacob \"Jack\" Astor IV, who died during the sinking of theTitanic,and his first wife,Ava Lowle Willing. She had a younger brother,Vincent Astor, and a paternal half-brother:John Jacob Astor VI. Her paternal grandparents were real estate businessman and race horse breeder/ownerWilliam Backhouse Astor Jr., and socialiteCaroline Schermerhorn Astor. Her maternal grandparents were businessman Edward Shippen Willing and socialite Alice Caroline Barton. After her parents divorced in 1909, Ava was placed into the custody of her mother while Vincent was placed into the custody of their father.In September 1911, Ava and her mother moved to England. They lived in a townhouse onGrosvenor SquareinMayfair, London from October to April, and at their country estate,Sutton PlaceinGuildford,Surrey, from May to September. She was educated atNotting Hill High School. In 1920, Ava was one of the few American heiresses presented toQueen Mary. When she turned 21, Ava received at least $5 million from a trust fund established by her father (equivalent to $162,913,793 in 2024).Due to the immensity of her wealth and rumors that multiple noblemen were seeking her hand in marriage, Ava was called a \"dollar princess.\"On July 4, 1924 the engagement of Ava Astor and PrinceSerge Obolensky, a recently-divorcedRussianaristocrat over ten years her senior, was publicly announced. This was a surprise for many, as Jack Astor had been opposed to international marriages and Ava had previously been rumored to be engaged to several different men, including Lord Dalmeny, son of theEarl of Rosebery, and theMarquis of Blandford, eldest son of the Duchess of Marlborough.The pair were married in London on July 24, 1924 in three ceremonies: one was a private civil ceremony, one privately took place atSavoy Chapel, and one was a public ceremony atSt. Philip\'s Church.The marriage was considered the event of the season in England that year. The couple had two children together: PrinceIvan Sergeyevich Obolensky, born in 1925, and PrincessSylvia Sergeyevna Obolensky, born in 1931.Throughout their marriage, the pair were rumored to be unhappy. In December 1932, Ava moved toReno,Nevadaand filed for divorce. On January 21, 1933, she remarried toRaimund von Hofmannsthal, a member of the nobleHofmannsthal familyand son ofHugo von Hofmannsthaland his wife, Gertrud Schlesinger. The couple was married in the city court ofNewark, New Jersey. The couple had a daughter: Romana von Hofmannsthal,but Raimund was also rumored to be the father of Sylvia, her daughter from her first marriage.Ava and Raimund eventually divorced in 1939, and he later married to Lady Elizabeth Paget. From 1936 to 1937, she had an affair with English choreographerSirFrederick Ashton, despite the fact that he was gay. After the affair ended, her love for him continued, though she had two subsequent marriages. On March 27, 1940, she married Philip John Ryves Harding, a journalist, inFaversham, England.At the time of their wedding, Harding, a cousin ofMaxwell Eley, was serving with ananti-aircraftbattery in theBritish Army.Before their divorce in 1945, they had one daughter, Emily Sophia Harding, in 1941. On May 12, 1946, she had her fourth and final marriage to David Pleydell-Bouverie, the grandson ofWilliam Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor, inReading, Vermont.Pleydell-Bouverie was an architect who studied atCharterhouse Schoolin England. They divorced in 1952. er brother Vincent gifted her aPalladian Revivalstone residence overlooking the Hudson River on his estate nearRhinebeck, New York. The house was on her brother\'s estate and north of his house \"Ferncliff,\"(\"Astor Courts\").Ava named it \"Marienruh\" and retained it throughout her life. Astor died of a stroke in her 219 East Sixty-first Street apartment,Manhattan, New York City, on July 19, 1956, at age 54.She predeceased her mother by two years.She was a patron of the arts, including the ballet companies of London and New York City. Her will was admitted to probate on November 5, 1956, in Manhattan Surrogate Court. Her assets, totaling $5,305,000, (equivalent to approximately $61,354,890 in 2024)were divided among her four childrenAt her mother\'s death in 1958, her children received an additional $2,500,000 (equivalent to approximately $27,246,251 in 2024)

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