Later she was also called Baroness Hedda Taxis-Tusar through her marriage to Maria Emil Freiherr Taxis von Bordogna und Valnigra.

[12] As a widow, Hedwig commuted between Vienna, Berlin, Prague and her Hellerhof Castle in the Lower Austrian Paudorf near Krems, which she had leased in 1924.

[13] On one of her trips to Vienna on 11 May 1924, she reported to Franz Kafka's biographer, Max Brod, how unhappy she was about Vlastimil's death.

She was accused of having fraudulently obtained a million-dollar inheritance from Tusar - 18 million Czech crowns - and of being the mastermind of the assassination attempt on her second husband.

[19] She was accused of having stolen jewels from Konopiště Castle during a trip together with Alice Masaryková, president of the Czechoslovak Red Cross, and of being a Jew.