Allene Tew was born in Janesville, Wisconsin , on July 7, She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. As such, she had to provide documentation that she was a descendant of someone who fought in the American Revolutionary War.
Astor , the self-proclaimed queen of aristocratic American society at the turn of the century, to accept her as a member of the upper class despite her middle class upbringing, premarital pregnancy, and shotgun wedding. She married the first of her five husbands, Theodore Rickey Hostetter , a polo player and yachtsman who was one of the wealthiest men of Pittsburgh, in Hostetter died of pneumonia on August 3, , at the age of He contracted a cold on his yacht Seneca during a trip to Larchmont, New York , to visit his brother Herbert.
Thomas's Church by the Rev. Ernest M. Stires on December 27, Feilden, among others. Henry P. During their marriage, both of Allene's children from her first marriage who lived to adulthood died within the same week in Schiff on January 22, In Paris on April 10, , she married Prince Heinrich as her fourth husband. He served as an officer in the Second Dragoons Guard, the regiment of the Empress Alexandra of Russia , and was in the diplomatic service with the German embassy in Paris.
She became Princess of Reuss, and it was her secretary who announced in June that the Prince and Princess had divorced. Her fifth husband was Capt. Astor's grandson, Vincent Astor. She negotiated on behalf of Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld leading up to his marriage to princess and subsequently queen Juliana of the Netherlands because she was a friend of his mother's Armgard von Cramm.
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