Clara von Hatzfeldt

After her father's death, Clara was adopted by her aunt, Elizabeth Stillman (née Stoddard) Huntington (1823–1883), and her husband, industrialist and railway magnate Collis P.

[11][12] While traveling through Spain with Mrs. John Sherwood, Clara met Prince Franz Edmund Joseph Gabriel Vitus von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg (1853–1910), who "became infatuated with her.

He has been a patron of all the fashionable European watering places, and has been most assiduous in cultivating the acquaintance of rich American girls at Monte Carlo, Baden, Homburg, and other resorts.

His father and mother are extremely popular both at Berlin and Vienna, but the Prince is regarded as a black sheep and has severed his connection with both the Diplomatic Service and the army.

"[13]Despite the press's articles about Prince Franz von Hatzfeldt, on 28 October 1889, Clara was married to him by the Bishop of Emmaus at St Wilfrid's Chapel at Brompton Oratory in London.

"[10] She attended Mrs. Adair's Fancy Dress Ball in London on 11 May 1903 costumed as Queen Esther wearing "...yellow chiffon with jewelled embroidery; a rose-coloured veil depending from an Oriental head-dress... sandals, and toe-rings on bare feet.

Champion de Crespigny was named co-executor of her estate with the Central Union Trust Company of New York and Henry Beauchamp Harrison of London, who was to receive the balance of the stock, $150,000 of the fund as well as jewelry and other personal effects.