Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi
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Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi (27 August 1886 – 29 January 1965) was a Hungarian countess and a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family.
[edit] Family background
Countess Széchenyi was born Gladys Moore Vanderbilt, in 1886, the seventh and youngest child of Alice Claypoole Gwynne with Cornelius Vanderbilt II, the President and Chairman of the New York Central Railroad. Gladys grew up in the family home on Fifth Avenue in New York City, and their summer "cottage", The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island.
Her first cousin was Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough.
[edit] Marriage
Gladys Vanderbilt married Hungarian Count László Széchenyi on 27 January 1908 in New York City. The couple visited Hungary almost every summer with their five daughters:
- Cornelia Széchenyi who married Eugene B. Roberts of Bowie, Maryland, and had three children, Gladys, Cornelia and Eugene.
- Alice Széchenyi married Hungarian Bela Count Hadik and had two boys, Lazslo and Johnnie.
- Gladys Széchenyi married the English Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham, and had two boys, Stormont and Robin.
- Sylvia Széchenyi married Hungarian Count Ante Szapary, and had two children, Paul and Gladys.
- Ferdinandine Széchenyi married the Austrian Count Alexander zu Eltz and had two boys, Peter and Nicholas.
[edit] Death
Countess Széchenyi died in 1965. Her daughter, Countess Sylvia Szapáry maintained a residence at her grandparents' summer "cottage", The Breakers until her death on 1 March 1998.
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