Sylvia Guirey

Sylvia Guirey ( Princess Sylvia Obolensky; 18 May 1931 – 27 June 1997) was an heiress, artist and art patron.

Early life Guirey was born on 18 May 1931 in Vöcklabruck, Austria. Her mother was Ava Alice Muriel Astor and her father was Raimund von Hofmannsthal. after her mother divorced in 1932, but at the time of her birth, her mother was in Austria and still married to Prince Serge Obolensky, a former Tsarist officer.

Personal life On 1 November 1950, she married Belgian financier Jean Louis Ganshof van der Meersch at the Church of the Holy Trinity in New York. In 1957, her husband obtained a divorce based on their separation and her friendship with Prince Guirey.

She married again to Prince Azamat Kadir Sultan Guirey (1924–2001), a son of Vaguide Sheretlock Guirey and Prince Kadir Guirey, a descendant of the Tatar khans who ruled Crimea before the Czars, in 1957. They moved to London and, before their divorce in 1963, they had three children together:

Prince Kadir Guirey.

Prince Azamat later married Frederica Ann "Bobo" Sigrist, daughter of Fred Sigrist (a Nassau born heiress who was previously married to Kevin McClory, who directed several James Bond films) Guirey died in Fulham in England in 1997. Prince Azamat died in 2001.