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Princess Radziwill (Gladys Deacon) (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Barb said:

  The inscription on this is wrong somewhere. Gladys Deacon was Duchess of Marlborough. Her sister Dorothy was Princess Radziwill.

• B-59 said:

  Dorothy Parker Deacon (1892 - 1960) www.geni.com/people/Dorothy/6000000017021807513 "Dorothy Parker-Deacon ... married Prince Antoni Albrecht Radziwill, son of Prince Jerzy Radziwill and Roza Branicka, Countess Branicka, on 5 July 1910 at London, England. ... Her married name became Radziwill. Her marriage to Prince Antoni Albrecht Radziwill was annulled in 1921." thepeerage.com/p6788.htm#i67873 This photo ran in several newspapers, e.g. The daily telegram., September 18, 1916, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85059715/1916-09-18/ed-... and The news scimitar., July 01, 1919, 4th Edition, Page 5 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn98069867/1919-07-01/ed-... S. also similar photo in the Omaha daily bee., March 01, 1914, PART TWO, Image 25 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99021999/1914-03-01/ed-... The sun., November 20, 1919, Image 1, col. 6 reported: "The Princess Antoine Albert Radziwill, formerly Miss Dorothy Parker Deacon of Boston, has based her plea for the annulment of her marriage to the Russian Prince on the ground that she was forced into tho marriage." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1919-11-20/ed-... Her sister Gladys: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3819811539/

• Barbara (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks for disentangling the identification of the two sisters. We'll adjust the descriptions to make it more clear which was which.