Eugène von Rothschild

Baron Eugène Daniel von Rothschild (6 March 1884 – 25 April 1976) was a member of the notable Rothschild family.

On 28 April 1925, after living together in Paris following her 1922 divorce, he married Countess Erwein von Schönborn-Buchheim (née Catherine "Kitty" Wolf, formerly Mrs. Dandridge Spotswood, who married Count Erwein in 1911) (1885–1946),[2] Kitty (who was also American) was a friend of Wallis Simpson and after Edward VIII abdicated he traveled to Catherine and Eugène's Castle in Enzesfeld near Vienna.

[3][4] Shortly after the beginning of World War II, Catherine and Eugéne left for Long Island where Catherine later died in 1946.

[3] Eugène then remarried the actress Jeanne Stuart on 21 December 1952.

[1] They both lived in New York City and Long Island but eventually left to live in Monte Carlo where he died in 1976.

Portrait of his wife, Catherine, by Philip de László , 1922