However, he declined the honour after it was bestowed upon him due to the fact that his younger brother was serving against France as a captain of the Prussian cavalry.
[1] The American heir Rutherfurd Stuyvesant donated the funds to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to purchase the Duke's collection of ancient armour.
Before their divorce on 11 August 1886, they were the parents of: On 25 January 1887,[7] shocking society, he married the American divorcée Adele Livingston Stevens (née Sampson; 1841–1912) in Paris.
[8] Adele, the daughter of Joseph Sampson (a merchant and co-founder of the Chemical Bank – the precursor to JPMorgan Chase) and Adele Sampson (née Livingston, of the prominent American Livingston family),[9] was the former wife of Frederick William Stevens (1839–1928).
1900), who married Teresa Tomassetti; and Carlo Maurizio Giuseppe Edgardo dei Principi Ruspoli (1906–1947), who married firstly, Marina dei Conti Volpi di Misurata, and secondly Luisa Maria Camperio.