Anne, Baroness Dőry de Jobaháza, formerly Princess Anna of Ardeck (''

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'' Anne Hollingsworth Price) (August 25, 1868 – April 24, 1945) was an American heiress and actress who married into the European aristocracy.

Early life

Anne was born on August 25, 1868, at Ellerslie Hall in Edgemoor, near

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. She was a daughter of oil magnate James Price II (1834–1904) and Sarah M. (née Harlan) Price (1832–1898). Her brother, Samuel Harlan Price, was married to Susan Coleman Wells (later Mrs. Morris R. Stroud). Anne was one of five sisters, who all married into the European nobility, which included Margaret Plater Price (who married in 1882 Edmund, Baron Wucherer von Huldenfeld, who was tutor to Archduke Eugen and Lord of the Manor of Gleinstätten), Susan Harlan Price (who married in 1885 Alexandru Socec, a general in

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), Matilda Louise Price (who married in 1883 Gábor, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, the

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's Chamberlain who adopted their son-in-law

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), and Sallie Mae Price (who married in 1891 Maximillian, Baron von Berg). Her paternal grandparents were Joseph Tatnall Price and Matilda Louise (née Sanderson) Price, and her maternal grandparents were Susan Preston (née Fairlamb) Harlan and Samuel Harlan Jr., of Harlan, Hollingsworth & Co., shipbuilders in Wilmington (who built ''

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'', which was purchased by

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). Harlan and Hollingsworth was acquired by

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in 1904, although her grandfather Harlan had died in 1883 in

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. Anne and her five sisters all were "beautiful and charming belles of Wilmington and Philadelphia, where they made their debuts." They spent a year in Europe with their parents, arriving in

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in the early 1880s. Matilda was the only daughter who ever returned to America. Reportedly, every time their father would return from his trip back to Philadelphia to manage the family business, one of his daughters would be engaged.

Personal life

On December 17, 1890, Anne was married to Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Ardeck (1858–1902) in

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. At the time of their wedding, the Prince, the eldest son of Maria von Hanau-Hořowitz and

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, was a Lieutenant of the 2nd Hussar Regiment of the

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. His father was a son of

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and Princess Sophie of Bentheim and Steinfurt (a daughter of Prince

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. Notwithstanding that his mother was a daughter of Frederick William, Elector of Hesse-Cassel, the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt regarded his parents' marriage as

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. Upon his parents' divorce in 1872, his mother and the children were styled ''Princes of Ardeck'' and ''Princesses of Ardeck''.Michel Huberty: ''L' Allemagne dynastique: Les 15 familles qui ont fait l'empire'', vol. 1: ''Hesse — Reuss — Saxe'', Le Perreux-sur-Marne, 1976, Her mother died in Stuttgart in April 1892. Prince Friedrich died on April 1, 1902, at Villa Wilhelmshöhe.

Second marriage

On February 4, 1904, she married Hungarian magnate Baron József Döry de Jobaháza (1868–1954) in Mihályi (formerly the

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). He was a son of Baron Nicholas Miklós Dőry de Jobaháza and Baroness Mária von Horváth de Szürnyeg. Together, they were the parents of four daughters (three of whom married titles), including: * Mária Jozefa Cecilia Ann Wilhelmine Dőry de Jobaháza (1904–1945), who died during

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. In September 1904, her father died, also in Stuttgart. Anne and her husband's home was in Schloss Hody bei Galanta, Pressburger Comitate, Hungary. In 1910, they acquired Schloss Johnsdorf in

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, Hungary. In 1945, after the Russians pillaged Schloss Johnsdorf and carried off their daughter Mária, Anne and her husband fled to Austria where she died a month later, aged 80, on April 24, 1945, from "hardships suffered under the Russian occupation of Austria." Their daughter died three days later. Anne left her entire estate to her and the Baron Döry-Jobaháza, except for $750 that was directed towards the care of her first husband's grave in Warmbrunn, Schleisen, Germany. József died April 14, 1954, in Johnsdorf.

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Anne Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female given name Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie. Anne is sometimes used as a male name in the ...