Cathleen Wolff

Katherine "Kitty", Baroness Eugène von Rothschild ( Wolff, formerly Countess Erwein von Schönborn-Buchheim and Mrs. Dandridge Spotswood; 13 March 1885 – October 9, 1946) was an American socialite. She was chosen by noted Parisian dress designers as one of the world's ten best-dressed women. Her maternal grandparents were Dr. Roger Keys and the former Kate Olive Cathcart.

She studied music in Munich. Although she was raised Protestant, she became a Roman Catholic in order to marry Count Erwein. Among his siblings were Countess Anna Marie von Schönborn-Buchheim (wife of Prince Gottfried Karl Joseph of Hohenlohe-Langenburg), Countess Franziska von Schönborn-Buchheim (wife of Prince Konrad of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst), Countess Irma Caroline Gabrielle von Schönborn-Buchheim (wife of Maximilian Egon II, Prince of Fürstenberg), and Friedrich Karl, 5th Count of Schönborn-Buchheim (who married Donna Teresa Dentice di Frasso, a daughter of Count Don Ernesto, 7th Prince Dentice di Frasso, and Countess Luisa Chotek von Chotkowa und Wognin).

Third marriage

On 28 April 1925, after living together in Paris following her 1924 divorce, she married Baron Eugène von Rothschild (1884–1976), a younger son of Albert Salomon von Rothschild and Bettina Caroline de Rothschild, members of the Austrian branch of the family. staying there for three months until Simpson's divorce was finalized so they could marry.

In 1940, shortly after the beginning of World War II, Kitty and Eugène left France for the United States. In 1941, they settled at Still House, a Georgian Colonial style home set on a 44-acre estate formerly owned by Paul D. Cravath in Locust Valley on Long Island. Kitty "often assisted financially various charitable and patriotic causes. In 1940 she presented shoes to an entire French regiment." After her death, Eugène remarried the British actress Jeanne Stuart on 21 December 1952. They both lived in New York City and Long Island but eventually left to live in Monte Carlo where he died in 1976.