ASTOR HEIRESS RE-MARRIES

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5290, 31 December 1946, Page 7

ASTOR HEIRESS RE-MARRIES

FOURTH HUSBAND IS ANGLO - AMERICAN Mrs. Alice Harding, beautiful daughter of 'Cojonel J. J. Astor, who was lost in the Titanic disaster, was recently masrieid1 for the fourth time. Her latest hus'hand is Mr. David Pleydell-Bouverie, 35, son of Colonel the Hon. and Mrs. Stuart PleydellBouverie, of Godalming, Surrey. The wedding took place at Reading, Vermont, U.S.A. Mr. Pleydell-Bouverie is an architect, noted for the originality of his worfk. He designed the farnous domed funfair at Folkestone and Ramsgate municipal airport. His father told the Sunday Express: "The first I heard of the wedding was by letter from my son, "He has heen in America for about nine years. He has a house near San Francisco and I think he intends to live there for the time being. "We are hoping that he will come home later so that we can see him and his wife. "During the war he joined the American Army as a suhaltcrn. He was not sent to Europe during his service." Mrs. Pleydell-Bouverie, who is 43, is the datughter of the late Colonel and Mrs. J. J. Astor, to whom \\e gave £80>000 a year. They were married in 1909. She married Lord Ribblesdale * ten years 1 &t6r« When her daughter Alice, now Mrs. Pleydell-Bouverie, became 21 in 1923, she inherited the £2,000,000 fortune left by het father. . In 1924 she married handsome Prince Serge Oibolensky. They had three weddings in a day — one at a register -office, one at the -Savoy Ohaipel and one at the Russian Church. The hride had to change her idress twice. They 'lived at Hanover House, Regent's Park, London, where modifications by the famous architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, were added. It .had' five acres of gardens. Princess Obolensky, already a famous heauty and leader of fashion in London and New York, gave big tennis parlies at a hard court which she had built. • * >She had a son in 1925. ■In 1932 the, marriage was dissolved. A month later she married Raimund von Hoffmannsthal, son of a famous Austrian poet. This marriage was dissolved in the spring of 1939. ' In Mardh, 1940 she married Philip Harding, a London jouinalist who was then serving in an anti-aircraft battery #rid a fornier lecturer at the London Wool of Economics. v