Prince Ferdinand was married four times and had issue with his first two wives. He
morganatically married firstly Shelagh Salome Houston Brunner (1900–1983) in London on 14 January 1925, in what was reportedly the first marriage of a member of the House of Liechtenstein history and a commoner. Shelagh was the daughter of Roscoe Brunner, chairman of
Brunner Mond, and granddaughter of
Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet. A little more than a year after their marriage, her father killed her mother in a murder-suicide at Green Cottage,
Roehampton, the London home of the Liechtensteins. After their divorce, she was created
Gräfin von Rietberg on 5 December 1951. Together, they were the parents of: • Christopher Richard Francis,
Graf von Rietberg (1926–2005), who married Kathleen Hamilton Mahan in 1955, a daughter of
Alfred Thayer Mahan of New York City. • Ethel
Elisabeth Olga Mary, Gräfin von Rietberg (1928–1999), who married Klaus Bruno von Brehm in 1953. They divorced in 1961 and she married Richard Douglas Loftus Onslow in 1968. Dorothy, a daughter of Harry Haydel of
St. Louis, Missouri, was the widow of Hermann Oelrichs Jr. (the only child of
Hermann Oelrichs and
Theresa Fair Oelrichs). She died
Kitzbühel,
Austria, on 11 April 1961. On 19 December 1968, he was married in
Sucy-en-Brie for the fourth and final time to Nadine Georgette Maria (née Ansay) Alexandre (1916–2003). Nadine, the former wife of Pierre Alexandre and daughter of Hubert Ansay and Lucienne Legrand, was created Prinzessin von und zu
Liechtenstein on 31 June 1975. His widow, Prinzessin von und zu Liechtenstein, died in
Boulogne-sur-Mer on 5 November 2003. ==References==