The following material
on the family of
Princess Daria Karageorgevich (d. 1938)
should not be considered either complete or
authoritative, but rather as a first draft.
1. | Count Leonardo Mercati, born at Cannes on 31 January 1901, died while grouse shooting in England on 20 Dec. 1974. He was board chairman of the Athenian Brewery in Athens, a part of the Amstel Group of companies. He married, in Athens on 21 April 1934, Lily Strathatos, daughter of Anthony Strathatos. At his death, Count Leonardo Mercati was survived by his widow, Barbara Tapper Warburg, by his three daughters by his previous marriage, Eleni Dracopoulos, Atalanta Goulandris, and Harriet Sitinas, all of Athens, and by seven grandchildren. |
2. | Atalanta Mercati, born in 1903, died at Athens on 7 Sept. 1964. She had married, at Cannes on 1 May (civil) and 2 May (religious) 1928, the novelist Michael Arlen, who had been born Dikran Kouyoumdjian at Roustchouk, Bulgaria, on 16 Nov. 1895, and died at New York, N.Y., on 25 June 1956. Mrs. Atalanta Mercati Arlen was survived by two children (Michael John Arlen, b. 1930, the author and critic, and Venetia Arlen) and three grandchildren. |
3. | Daria Mercati, born in Paris on 8 May 1908, still living 7 Sept. 1964, married, first, at Geneva on 11 Dec. 1929, Andre Firmenich, son of Frederic Firmenich. She married, second, civilly, at Coligny, near Geneva, 26 April 1946, Paul Palmer, European editor of Reader's Digest. |