Margaret de Crussol d'Uzès

[1] On April 15, 1951, she was married to Thomas Moore Bancroft Jr. (1930–2019),[5] at St. James' Episcopal Church in Manhattan with a reception in the ballroom of the Colony Club.

Thomas, a graduate of the Middlesex School and Princeton University, was the son of Edith W. Bancroft and Thomas M. Bancroft Sr. His maternal grandfather was banker William Woodward Sr. and his uncle was William Woodward Jr. A textile executive, he served as president of Mount Vernon Mills, and raised and raced thoroughbred horses with his brother.

After informing the press that she wouldn't be in New York for the season because she was fighting the custody charges, she made an exception to attend Truman Capote's famous Black and White Ball in November.

The Prince's family gave her a generous allowance and guaranteed her son's inheritance rights under the condition she immediately leave the d'Arenberg residence, which she did.

[14] After their marriage, they lived in the Duke's homes in Paris, Rabat, and the town of Uzès, where she paid to restore the family's ancestral castle, the Château du Duché.

Of the four passengers, she was the only death; the two men in the car, one of whom was driving, escaped with slight injuries, while Geneviève Françoise Poncet (mother of the debutante for whom the ball was given) suffered several broken ribs.

Poncet was the former wife of Robert de Balkany, who was then married to Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy, daughter of Umberto II, the last King of Italy.