Theodora d'Albert, Duchess of Chaulnes

Her younger sister, Marguerite Shonts,[1] married diplomat Rutherford Bingham (son of New York City Police Commissioner Theodore A.

[10] She often traveled back and forth from Europe and vacationed in Hot Springs, Virginia, socializing with the Duchess of Manchester, a fellow American who married into the European aristocracy.

"[14] She was supported, financially, in her later years by her friend, "Mrs. William Boyce Thompson, wealthy mother of Mrs. Tony Drexel Biddle Jr."[15] On February 15, 1908, Theodora married Emmanuel d'Albert de Luynes, Duke of Chaulnes and Picquigny at 132 East 35th Street, her father's home in New York City.

[16][17] He was the son of the late Princess Sophie Galitzine and Paul d'Albert de Luynes, Duke of Chaulnes and Picquigny (who both died young).

[21] The Duke died from heart failure (reportedly due in part to an addiction to morphine pills) on 24 April 1908, less than three months after their marriage, in his apartment in the Hotel Langham in the Rue du Boccador in Paris.