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Daisy, Princess of Pless (Mary Theresa Olivia; née Cornwallis-West; 28 June 1873 – 29 June 1943) was a noted society beauty in the Edwardian period. Daisy and her husband Prince Hans Heinrich XV were the owners of large estates and coal mines in Silesia (now in Poland ) which brought an enormous fortune to the Hochbergs.
He then studied economics at the universities of Berlin, Geneva and Bonn. Later the studies prepared him to manage the wealth of the Hochberg family in Silesia. At the age of 22 Hans Heinrich XV, the son of a duke (Herzog von Pless) received from Emperor Wilhelm I a lower princely title and officially became the Fürst von Pless (Prince of Pless).
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.
Mary Theresa Olivia Cornwallis-West, birth name of Daisy, Princess of Pless (1873–1943), Welsh writer, socialite, and wartime nurse; Mary Theresa Schmich (born 1953), American journalist; Mary Theresa Vidal (1815–1873), English-born Australian novelist; Mary Theresa Wiedefeld (1886–1983), American educator and academic
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).
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