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Howard Oxenberg obituary

• OXENBERG- Howard, born July 27, 1919 died peacefully on the night of June 25, 2010 surrounded by the family he loved. He is survived by his children Starr Oxenberg, Robert Oxenberg, Catherine Van Dien and husband Casper, Christina Oxenberg, Ashley Harcourt and husband Scott, and grandchildren, Mari, Luna, India, Celest and Maya, and one great-grandchild, Magnolia. Born in New York, Howard always knew he was destined for a rich and colorful life. He had natural movie star good looks and a shrewd mind. He started off in life without much but with tremendous courage to overcome any obstacle. He taught himself to become a champion swimmer and was a member of the Aquacade. His athleticism earned him a college scholarship and also saved him from the front lines of battle in WWII as he was assigned by the Navy to teach hundreds of sailors how to swim. Howard created many successful ladies clothing lines and was the first to mass market maternity dresses. He sold his businesses at age 50 and retired to the good life. He taught himself to ski and play tennis and was soon dominating both sports with his grace and agility and refusal to ever be second best. Howard owned homes in New York City, Southampton, and Palm Beach and devoted himself to a social circuit of fine friends, parties, back-gammon, and traveling. Anyone who knew Howard knew he was the life of the party with his wide smile and easy laugh and desire to cheer. He lived a life quite unique and as he said so often, "I'm one in a million." And that he was.

Published in New York Times on July 4, 2010

• Howard Oxenberg - Biography - IMDb Howard Oxenberg was born on July 27, 1919 in New York City, New York, USA. He died on June 25, 2010 in New York, New York.
  • [Filmography]: Self in I Married a Princess (2005) TV Series | 30 min | Family, Reality-TV

• My father who art in heaven, Part 1, catherineoxenberg.wordpress.com (2012)

Children

first marriage

• (Helene) Starr Oxenberg (daughter): born 1946 ("01/12/46"); lawyer (Indiana University, Class of 1987, J.D.); in Aspen, Colorado in 2018; also using address 2611 Benvenue Ave, Berkeley, 94704, CA, USA here in 2018
  • (Arjuna) Mariposa Oxenberg, born 1973, eldest child of Starr Oxenberg, Pine Manor College BA (1991–1995), Philadelphia University M.Sc., nurse-midwife, founder and CEO of Orange Fuzz LLC, a hemp CBD company
  • Luna Oxenberg, Hampshire College BA (1994–1997), event producer at Taylor Street Production; in 2024 was living in Berkeley, California, and had a husband, Matt Lawsky, and two daughters
    • Magnolia Lawsky-Oxenberg
    • River Lawsky-Oxenberg, born c. 2011
• Robert (Bobby) Howard (?) Oxenberg: born 1949 (?) about 1978 m. Maureen McCluskey, who was previously married to his father. In a court document of 2019:

Plaintiff are United States citizens. Maureen McCluskey was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Robert Oxenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York. They are husband and wife, and they have resided in or near Aspen, Colorado for the past 41 years. They presently reside during many months of the year at 2520 Lower River Road, Snowmass, Colorado 81654. They also maintain a residence during some parts of the year at Lake Worth, Florida.

second marriage to Princess Elizabeth

• Catherine Oxenberg (born 22 September 1961), married Robert Evans, July 1998, annulled nine days later; married Casper Van Dien, 8 May 1999.
  • India Riven Oxenberg (7 June 1991)
  • Maya Van Dien (20 September 2001)
  • Celeste Alma Van Dien (3 October 2003)

m. thirdly Oct 2023 Ellis B. Jones, of Wasserstein, previously married to Lisa Taylor

• Christina Oxenberg

third marriage to Maureen McCluskey

• Maureen McCluskey Married In Mexico to Howard Oxenberg, New York Times, 26 August 1969

fourth marriage to Anne Hardwicke, 1975

"Mrs. Hardwicke, Howard Oxenberg Wed" : "The marriage of Anne Hardwicke, a former fabric designer, to Howard Oxenberg, a former clothing manufacturer, took place in Mr. and Mrs. Keith Barish's Justice Manuel A. Gomez performed the ceremony in the apartment here yesterday afternoon. State Supreme Court presence of 200 guests."

• Ashley Hayden Oxenberg (Ashley Hayden Harcourt), born 10 November 1983, Santa Barbara, California, previously West Palm Beach, Florida; married Scott Harcourt

fifth marriage

At the time of his death in 2010 he had five grand-daughters and one great-grandchild, Magnolia.

Princess Elizabeth

Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, born 7 April 1936, White Palace, Belgrade. During Second World War in East Africa and South Africa.

Married Howard Oxenberg, 1960; div. 1966

• Catherine & Christina Oxenberg

Married Neil Balfour, 1969; div. 1978

• Nicholas Augustus Roxburgh Balfour (born 6 June 1970) married Stéphanie de Brouwer (born 1971),2000, has four daughters:
  • India Lily Balfour (17 October 2002)
  • Gloria Elizabeth Balfour (11 November 2005)
  • Olympia Rose Balfour (27 June 2007)
  • Georgia Veronika Stefania Balfour (10 September 2010)

Married Manuel Ulloa Elías, 1987; he died 1992.

Catherine

https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Oxenberg,_Catherine

“She had a baby girl, India Riven, on 6/07/1991, Los Angeles, refusing to name the father. Shortly after that she checked into an expensive rehab center battling depression and an eating disorder.“

Christina

Born 27 December 1962, educ. Spain... three years with the Professor at Downlands College, Isaacs Lane, Haywards Heath... Moira House School... school in Oxford... Colorado Rocky Mountain School; left aged 17, then worked in NYC; during 1982 on six-month world trip, from age 19 to age 20; between 1984 and 1985 she worked as a research assistant for Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd on his book Blenheim Revisited. In 1985, she was back in NYC working on her first book, Taxi, and later the same year was living in Paris with Damian Elwes; she married him in 1986, in Jordan; both went to NYC for her to work on her book and lived on Fire Island as a guest of Samuel Adams Green; then they spent five months in Green's house in Cartagena, Colombia; after selling paintings, they bought mountain land in Colombia and spent five years building and improving a house on it. Soon after Christmas 1988, they agreed to take a break from each other and stayed apart for six months. When they divorced in 1996, Elwes got the house in Colombia.

About 2001 she married secondly Marc Alan Yaggi (b. March 1971), and they divorced about 2010. Not long after that, she went to live in Key West, Florida. After Oxenberg family litigation in the US, she moved to Serbia about 2020.

• Finding Parkfield...
• Christina Oxenberg Is Related to Royalty and Hollywood Stars—And She Is Ready to Tell All Her Stories in Town and Country, Dec 19, 2019:

“Tina’s comments sadden me,” Catherine tells T&C. “I won’t say anything disparaging about my sister," but, she added, "I do not consider my sister a reliable or truthful source."

Princess Elizabeth told T&C via email: “I am very proud of all my children and their accomplishments. Christina is very clever, a good writer and brilliant at marketing. She knows how to combine imagination with facts as this way she promotes her blogs and stories.”

• Lunch at The Four Seasons with: Princess Christina Oxenberg
• Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine had a tea gathering with Mrs. Christina Oxenberg and “Quartet Books”
• Did J.F.K. Have A Lovechild With A Royal Balkan Princess? The Answer Depends On Who You Ask!, 16 Jan 2020