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Mamarazza, R.I.P.

We regret to inform you that Marianne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn has died age 105.

She had a sharp eye, and will always be remembered for one of my favourite photographs.

May her soul and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace.

■ Obituaries: The Telegraph | The Observer | Tatler

Published at 10:38 am on Monday 12 May 2025. Categories: Art History Tags: , , .
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It is one of the ironies of the German aristocratic world that former enemies sometimes find themselves awkwardly arranged around the same dining table at family celebrations of the usual sort: marriages, baptisms, funerals.

In the case of Mamarazza that occasion will have been the marriage in 2001 of her granddaughter Baroness Isabelle Schuler v. Senden to Sebastian von Ribbentrop, grandson of Joachim, Hitler’s Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The unease will have been considerably mitigated by the fact that Mamarazza’s niece, Countess Christiane v. Eltz-Stromberg, had in 1985 married Sebastian’s uncle Adolf (where, I ask myself, might that name have come from?). That marriage was Christine’s second: her first, to Baron Enoch v. Guttenberg, produced Karl-Theodor, a former German Minister of Defense, whose own wife is a Bismarck and a direct descendent of the famous Chancellor.

— Baron von Hetterwcheidt 16 May 2025 12:04 pm
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