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The Princess introduced pasteurised milk stations for children and founded a school for disabled children. [2] She organised a cooperative for lace workers. [2] 'The Private Diaries of Princess Daisy of Pless – 1873–1914, edited by Major Desmond Chapman-Huston, were first published in London by John Murray in 1931. This was the second ...
Hans Heinrich XV von Hochberg (Polish: Jan Henryk XV; 23 April 1861 – 31 January 1938) was Prince of Pless (), Count of Hochberg and Baron of Fürstenstein ().He was the husband (1891–1923) of Mary Theresa Olivia Hochberg von Pless, also known as Princess Daisy.
When ascending the Grand Staircase, designed by Destailleur, the apartments of Princess Mary Theresa Olivia Cornwallis-West von Pless are reached. The princess, called Daisy, lived there from 1891, when she married Prince Hans Heinrich XV and left her native England, until her death in 1943. The rooms are decorated with pictures of the princess ...
Coat of arms of the Prince of Pless, Count of Hochberg, Baron of Fürstenstein Coat of arms of the city of Pszczyna. The Duchy of Pless (or the Duchy of Pszczyna, [1] German: Herzogtum Pleß, Polish: Księstwo Pszczyńskie) was a Duchy of Silesia, with its capital at Pless (present-day Pszczyna, Poland).
Cornwallis-West's elder sister, née Mary Theresa Cornwallis-West, was a noted society beauty. Known as Daisy, Princess of Pless, she was the first wife of Hans Heinrich XV, Prince of Pless. His younger sister, Constance, became the first wife of Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster.
Hans Heinrich XV - Prince of Pless (Pszczyna) and the husband of Mary Theresa Olivia von Pless, also known as Princess Daisy and later Duchess Marisca. A member of one of the wealthiest European noble families, he is the owner of large estates and coal mines in Lower and Upper Silesia (Poland) which brought him enormous fortune and his ...
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Mary Theresa Olivia ("Daisy") Cornwallis-West (1873–1943), who married Prince Hans Heinrich XV von Hochberg. George Frederick Myddleton Cornwallis-West (1874–1951), who married the American heiress, Jennie Jerome in 1900, whom his mother was 292 days younger than.