Dolores Guinness

Dolores Guinness (31 July 1936 – 20 January 2012) was a German-born "Freiin" (Baroness), socialite, fashion icon and jet set member of the 1950s and 1960s. She has been a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1970. Her mother was the Mexican-born socialite Gloria Guinness. Early life Born Dolores Maria Agatha Wilhelmine Luise, Freiin von Fürstenberg-Herdringen on 31 July 1936 in Berlin-Charlottenburg. She was the second daughter of Franz-Egon Maria Meinhard Engelbert Pius Aloysius Kaspar Ferdinand Dietrich, 3rd Graf von Fürstenberg-Herdringen (1896–1975) and his second wife, Gloria Guinness (née Rubio y Alatorre) (1912–1980). She also has a younger brother, Franz-Egon (born 1939), and a half-sister, Betsy von Furstenberg, from her father's previous marriage. Though some published sources have described Dolores von Fürstenberg as a countess and a princess, she would have been, in fact, a Freiin (baroness), according to the last published issue of the Almanach de Gotha - had these titles not been abolished in 1919. Later life At age 19, she married her stepbrother Patrick Benjamin Guinness (1931–1965), son of Loel Guinness and Joan Yarde-Buller, on 22 October 1955 in Paris. Patrick was killed in a car accident in Turtig near Raron, Switzerland 1965. Have issue: