Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi

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Countess and Count László Széchenyi, circa 1908.
Countess and Count László Széchenyi, circa 1908.

Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi (27 August 188629 January 1965) was a Hungarian countess and a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family. <image src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/Idlib-map.png"> Countess Széchenyi was born Gladys Moore Vanderbilt, in 1886, the seventh and youngest child of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, the President and Chairman of the New York Central Railroad. Gladys grew up in the family home on Fifth Avenue in New York City, and their summer cottage, The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island.

Gladys Vanderbilt married Hungarian Count László Széchenyi on 27 January 1908 in New York.

Countess Széchenyi died in 1965.