Caroline von Oettingen-Wallerstein

[1] Caroline was born in 1824 at Heiligkreuz Castle near Donauworth and was baptized in the Heilig Kreuz monastery church.

[3] Caroline married Count Hugo Philipp von Waldbott-Bassenheim zu Buxheim and Heggbach in 1843.

Among women, Caroline was considered a “role model of a tasteful, rich toilet that is always changing with princely splendor”.

An anecdote tells that in a large fashion warehouse, after a long, fruitless examination of the fabrics, the princess broke out with the painful words: "God, how difficult it is to choose when you are so beautiful!

The shiny black hair is parted smoothly and falls in long curls down to the shoulders, a hairstyle that came from England and was widely worn in Germany in the early 1840s.