{{Short description|German socialite (1936–2012)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Dolores Guinness | image = | birth_name = Dolores Maria Agatha Wilhelmine Luise Freiin von Fürstenberg-Herdringen | birth_date = {{birth date|1936|7|31|df=y}} | birth_place = Berlin, Germany | death_date = {{death date and age|2012|01|20|1936|7|31|df=y}} | death_place = Lausanne, Switzerland<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hommages.ch/Defunt/66549/Dolores_Guinness |title=''En hommage á Dolores Guinness [[Tribune de Genève]] - le 30 janvier 2012'' |access-date=23 March 2012 |archive-date=14 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314175232/http://www.hommages.ch/Defunt/66549/Dolores_Guinness |url-status=dead }}</ref> | spouse = {{marriage|Patrick Benjamin Guinness|1955|1965|end=died}} | children = Three | parents = Franz-Egon von Fürstenberg-Herdringen<br/>Gloria Rubio y Alatorre }}
'''Dolores Guinness''' (née '''Baroness Dolores Maria Agatha Wilhelmine Luise von Fürstenberg-Herdringen'''; 31 July 1936 – 20 January 2012) was a German-born aristocrat, socialite, fashion icon, and jet set member of the 1950s and 1960s. She was a member of the International Best Dressed List from 1970.<ref>[http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/bestdressed/bestdressed_women?currentPage=2 ''Vanity Fair''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080229132518/http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/bestdressed/bestdressed_women?currentPage=2 |date=29 February 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | title=Ultimate Style - The Best of the Best Dressed List| pages=158| isbn= 2-84323-513-8 | year=2004 | last1=Zilkha| first1=Bettina| publisher=Assouline}}</ref> Her mother was the Mexican-born socialite Gloria Guinness.
==Early life== She was born on 31 July 1936 in Berlin-Charlottenburg.<ref>Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Freiherrliche Häuser, Band XV, Seite 135–177, Band 69 der Gesamtreihe, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1989.</ref> She was the only 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<ref>Mosley, Charles, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 2, page 1695.</ref> (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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,834522,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422072640/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,834522,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 April 2008 |title=Milestones: Oct. 15, 1965 |publisher=Time |date=15 October 1965 |accessdate=23 March 2012}}</ref> Their children were:
#Maria ''Alexandra'' Guinness Cook (born 1956) married Foulques, Count de Quatrebarbes (born 1948) in 1979. Now divorced. Have issue. #Loel ''Patrick'' Guinness (born 1957) #''Victoria'' Christina Niarchos (born 1960) married Philip Niarchos in 1984, son of late Greek billionaire Stavros Niarchos. Have issue.
After Patrick's death, Dolores fell madly in love with the Aga Khan, the son of Joan Barbara Yarde-Buller (1908–1997) by her marriage to Aly Khan (1911–1960), and so her late husband's half-brother, and wanted to marry him, but nothing came of that.<ref>She married her stepbrother Patrick Benjamin Guinness in 1955 and after his early death, later hoped to marry the Aga Khan IV, her late husband's half-brother, according to Etti (Mrs Arpad) Plesch, ''Horses & Husbands: The Memoirs of Etti Plesch'', Dorset: The Dovecote Press, 2007, page 156.</ref>
==Fashion icon== Dolores was often seen in ''Vogue'', ''Harper's Bazaar'',<ref>Haslam, Nicholas, ''Redeeming Features'', published in November 2009 by Knopf (US) and Jonathan Cape (UK), page 224.</ref> ''Town and Country'' and ''Life'' magazine dressed in designer clothes from Givenchy, Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga during the 1950s and 1960s, photographed by Cecil Beaton, Bert Stern, Henry Clarke, Mark Shaw (photographer), Richard Avedon and William Klein.<ref>{{ cite book | title=The World in Vogue 1893–1963| pages=404–405| year=1963 }}</ref> She often appeared on the International Best Dressed List during these years.
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