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[td]===Widowhood===[/td] [td]Following her husband's death,<ref name="1908Burial"/> she spent the beginning of her widowhood at his family's estate, [[ChΓ’teau de Dampierre]].<ref name="1908birth"/> Upon the birth of her son, President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] wrote to Theodora and her father offering his congratulations.<ref name="theodorerooseveltcenter">{{cite web |title=Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Theodore P. Shonts. Theodore Roosevelt Papers. Library of Congress Manuscript Division. |url=https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library/Record?libID=o205655 |website=www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org |publisher=[[Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library]]. [[Dickinson State University]]. |access-date=3 April 2023}}</ref> In 1911, she rented a villa in [[Cape May, New Jersey]], known as Star Villa, with her mother and sister.<ref name="1911villa">{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Special to The New York |title=DUCHESS DE CHAULNES ILL.; Daughter of Theodore P. Shonts, Now at Cape May, Improving. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1911/08/28/...aughter-of-theodore-p-shonts-now-at-cape.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=28 August 1911}}</ref>[/td]
[td]Following her husband's death,<ref name="1908Burial"/> she spent the beginning of her widowhood at his family's estate, [[ChΓ’teau de Dampierre]].<ref name="1908birth"/> Upon the birth of her son, President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] wrote to Theodora and her father offering his congratulations.<ref name="theodorerooseveltcenter">{{cite web |title=Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Theodore P. Shonts. Theodore Roosevelt Papers. Library of Congress Manuscript Division. |url=https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library/Record?libID=o205655 |website=www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org |publisher=[[Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library]]. [[Dickinson State University]]. |access-date=3 April 2023}}</ref> In 1911, she rented a villa in [[Cape May, New Jersey]], known as Star Villa, with her mother and sister.<ref name="1911villa">{{cite news |title=DUCHESS DE CHAULNES ILL.; Daughter of Theodore P. Shonts, Now at Cape May, Improving. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1911/08/28/...aughter-of-theodore-p-shonts-now-at-cape.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=28 August 1911}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]She often traveled back and forth from Europe and vacationed in [[Hot Springs, Virginia]], socializing with the [[Helena Keith-Falconer, Countess of Kintore|Duchess of Manchester]], a fellow American who married into the European aristocracy.<ref name="1913Christmas">{{cite news |title=CHRISTMAS SHIPS BRING MANY HOME; The Duke of Manchester Says Ulster's 100,000 Men Are Ready to Fight. OPPOSED TO HOME RULE Duchess de Chaulnes and Miss Shonts Among Arrivals;- Big Santa Claus Mail. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1913/12/23/...home-the-duke-of-manchester-says-ulsters.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=23 December 1913}}</ref><ref name="1916Protest">{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Special to The New York |title=DUCHESS ENTERS PROTEST.; Widow of Duke de Chaulnes Takes Up Quarantine Expulsion. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1916/10/25/...otest-widow-of-duke-de-chaulnes-takes-up.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=25 October 1916}}</ref> In 1915, she played a foursome of golf there with the Duchess of Manchester, her sister Marguerite and Isabella May of Washington.<ref name="1915Golfer">{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Special to The New York |title=GOLFERS AT HOT SPRINGS.; The Duchess of Manchester and Duchess de Chaulnes Among Players |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/05/19/...the-duchess-of-manchester-and-duchess-de.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=19 May 1915}}</ref>[/td]
[td]She often traveled back and forth from Europe and vacationed in [[Hot Springs, Virginia]], socializing with the [[Helena Keith-Falconer, Countess of Kintore|Duchess of Manchester]], a fellow American who married into the European aristocracy.<ref name="1913Christmas">{{cite news |title=CHRISTMAS SHIPS BRING MANY HOME; The Duke of Manchester Says Ulster's 100,000 Men Are Ready to Fight. OPPOSED TO HOME RULE Duchess de Chaulnes and Miss Shonts Among Arrivals;- Big Santa Claus Mail. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1913/12/23/...home-the-duke-of-manchester-says-ulsters.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=23 December 1913}}</ref><ref name="1916Protest">{{cite news |title=DUCHESS ENTERS PROTEST.; Widow of Duke de Chaulnes Takes Up Quarantine Expulsion. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1916/10/25/...otest-widow-of-duke-de-chaulnes-takes-up.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=25 October 1916}}</ref> In 1915, she played a foursome of golf there with the Duchess of Manchester, her sister Marguerite and Isabella May of Washington.<ref name="1915Golfer">{{cite news |title=GOLFERS AT HOT SPRINGS.; The Duchess of Manchester and Duchess de Chaulnes Among Players |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/05/19/...the-duchess-of-manchester-and-duchess-de.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=19 May 1915}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]Known for her fashion sense, she was "one of the first to include 'metropolitan' prints in her wardrobe. She has selected the Paris print with the [[Mona Lisa]], the Madeleine and the [[Eiffel Tower]]. She is having it made up in her favorite color combination of black and white."<ref name="1938Crepe">{{cite news |title=Gray Crepe Leads With Europeans |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122219722/gray-crepe-leads-with-europeans/ |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The Knoxville News-Sentinel]] |date=3 April 1938 |pages=77}}</ref> She was supported, financially, in her later years by her friend, "Mrs. [[William Boyce Thompson]], wealthy mother of Mrs. [[Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr.|Tony Drexel Biddle Jr.]]"<ref name="1939Support">{{cite news |last1=Paul |first1=Mary |title=Metropolitan Smart Set |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122219982/metropolitan-smart-set/ |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The San Francisco Examiner]] |date=10 February 1939 |pages=19}}</ref>[/td]
[td]Known for her fashion sense, she was "one of the first to include 'metropolitan' prints in her wardrobe. She has selected the Paris print with the [[Mona Lisa]], the Madeleine and the [[Eiffel Tower]]. She is having it made up in her favorite color combination of black and white."<ref name="1938Crepe">{{cite news |title=Gray Crepe Leads With Europeans |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122219722/gray-crepe-leads-with-europeans/ |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The Knoxville News-Sentinel]] |date=3 April 1938 |pages=77}}</ref> She was supported, financially, in her later years by her friend, "Mrs. [[William Boyce Thompson]], wealthy mother of Mrs. [[Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr.|Tony Drexel Biddle Jr.]]"<ref name="1939Support">{{cite news |last1=Paul |first1=Mary |title=Metropolitan Smart Set |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122219982/metropolitan-smart-set/ |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The San Francisco Examiner]] |date=10 February 1939 |pages=19}}</ref>[/td] [td]==Personal life==[/td]
[td]==Personal life==[/td] [td][[File
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[td][[Fileuc du Chaulnes 1908 page 239 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Photograph of her husband, [[Emmanuel d'Albert de Luynes]], 1908]][/td]
[td]On February 15, 1908, Theodora married [[Emmanuel d'Albert de Luynes]], [[Duke of Chaulnes]] and [[Picquigny]] at 132 [[35th Street (Manhattan)|East 35th Street]], her father's home in New York City.<ref name="1906Engagement">{{cite news |last1=Cablegram |first1=Special |title=MISS THEODORA SHONTS WILL BE A DUCHESS; Her Engagement to Duc de Chaulnes Announced. ROMANCE BEGAN IN FRANCE The Bride-to-Be Is the Youngest Daughter of the President of the Panama Canal Commission. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1906/11/28/...ll-be-a-duchess-her-engagement-to-duc-de.html |accessdate=10 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=28 November 1906}}</ref><ref name="1908Details">{{cite news |title=SHONTS WEDDING PLANS.; Miss Shonts's Marriage to the Duc de Chaulnes to Take Place at Noon Feb. 15. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/02/01/...-shontss-marriage-to-the-duc-de-chaulnes.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=1 February 1908}}</ref> He was the son of the late Princess Sophie [[House of Golitsyn|Galitzine]] and [[Paul d'Albert de Luynes, Duke of Chaulnes]] and [[Picquigny]] (who both died young).<ref name="europeanheraldry"/><ref name="1908NYTWedding">{{cite news |title=MISS SHONTS BRIDE OF DUC DE CHAULNES; Marriage Ceremony Performed After the French Fashion Before Hundreds of Guests. ONE UNTOWARD INCIDENT Party of Wedding Guests Held Up Between Floors for Fifteen Minutes In the Elevator. MISS SHONTS BRIDE OF DUC DE CHAULNES |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/02/16/...-de-chaulnes-marriage-ceremony-performed.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=16 February 1908}}</ref> His only sibling, Marie Thérèse d'Albert de Luynes, was married to [[Louis de Crussol d'Uzès]], 14th [[Duke of Uzès]].<ref name="1907Engagement">{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Special to The New York |title=MISS SHONTS MAY WED FRENCH DUKE; Her Father Might Consent to Arrange the Customary Settlement. A QUESTION Of HAPPINESS Miss Shonts and Her Mother Show Favor to Titled Suitor -- Duchess May Visit Them. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1907/03/25/...duke-her-father-might-consent-to-arrange.html |accessdate=10 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=25 March 1907}}</ref><ref name="1907Profile">{{cite news |title=Plenty of Romance in the Story of the Next American Duchess; Long Ago Miss Shonts Predicted What is to Happen, While the Duc de Chaulnes Is Rapidly Becoming an American. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1907/11/24/...-story-of-the-next-american-duchess-long.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=24 November 1907}}</ref> The Duke was "good looking, amiable, well educated, and possessed of charming manners." He had a house in the [[8th arrondissement of Paris]] (in Avenue Van-Dyck in the [[Parc Monceau]] quarter) and a chÒteau in the French [[Departments of France|department]] of [[Sarthe]],<ref name="1907Engagement"/> but was cash poor.<ref name="1907Profile"/> The Duke died from heart failure (reportedly due in part to an addiction to [[morphine]] pills) on 24 April 1908, less than three months after their marriage, in his apartment in the Hotel Langham in the Rue du Boccador in Paris.<ref name="1908Obit">{{cite news |title=Duc de Chaulnes Dies in Arms of Wife |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19080425.2.11&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |access-date=10 November 2020 |work=[[San Francisco Call]] |issue=147 |date=25 April 1908|volume = 103}}</ref> Later that same year, Theodora gave birth to their only child:<ref name="1908Burial">{{cite news |title=Duc de Chaulnes Buried. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/04/29/archives/duc-de-chaulnes-buried.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=29 April 1908}}</ref>[/td]
[td]On February 15, 1908, Theodora married [[Emmanuel d'Albert de Luynes]], [[Duke of Chaulnes]] and [[Picquigny]] at 132 [[35th Street (Manhattan)|East 35th Street]], her father's home in New York City.<ref name="1906Engagement">{{cite news |last1=Cablegram |first1=Special |title=MISS THEODORA SHONTS WILL BE A DUCHESS; Her Engagement to Duc de Chaulnes Announced. ROMANCE BEGAN IN FRANCE The Bride-to-Be Is the Youngest Daughter of the President of the Panama Canal Commission. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1906/11/28/...ll-be-a-duchess-her-engagement-to-duc-de.html |accessdate=10 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=28 November 1906}}</ref><ref name="1908Details">{{cite news |title=SHONTS WEDDING PLANS.; Miss Shonts's Marriage to the Duc de Chaulnes to Take Place at Noon Feb. 15. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/02/01/...-shontss-marriage-to-the-duc-de-chaulnes.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=1 February 1908}}</ref> He was the son of the late Princess Sophie [[House of Golitsyn|Galitzine]] and [[Paul d'Albert de Luynes, Duke of Chaulnes]] and [[Picquigny]] (who both died young).<ref name="europeanheraldry"/><ref name="1908NYTWedding">{{cite news |title=MISS SHONTS BRIDE OF DUC DE CHAULNES; Marriage Ceremony Performed After the French Fashion Before Hundreds of Guests. ONE UNTOWARD INCIDENT Party of Wedding Guests Held Up Between Floors for Fifteen Minutes In the Elevator. MISS SHONTS BRIDE OF DUC DE CHAULNES |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/02/16/...-de-chaulnes-marriage-ceremony-performed.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=16 February 1908}}</ref> His only sibling, Marie Thérèse d'Albert de Luynes, was married to [[Louis de Crussol d'Uzès]], 14th [[Duke of Uzès]].<ref name="1907Engagement">{{cite news |title=MISS SHONTS MAY WED FRENCH DUKE; Her Father Might Consent to Arrange the Customary Settlement. A QUESTION Of HAPPINESS Miss Shonts and Her Mother Show Favor to Titled Suitor -- Duchess May Visit Them. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1907/03/25/...duke-her-father-might-consent-to-arrange.html |accessdate=10 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=25 March 1907}}</ref><ref name="1907Profile">{{cite news |title=Plenty of Romance in the Story of the Next American Duchess; Long Ago Miss Shonts Predicted What is to Happen, While the Duc de Chaulnes Is Rapidly Becoming an American. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1907/11/24/...-story-of-the-next-american-duchess-long.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=24 November 1907}}</ref> The Duke was "good looking, amiable, well educated, and possessed of charming manners." He had a house in the [[8th arrondissement of Paris]] (in Avenue Van-Dyck in the [[Parc Monceau]] quarter) and a chÒteau in the French [[Departments of France|department]] of [[Sarthe]],<ref name="1907Engagement"/> but was cash poor.<ref name="1907Profile"/> The Duke died from heart failure (reportedly due in part to an addiction to [[morphine]] pills) on 24 April 1908, less than three months after their marriage, in his apartment in the Hotel Langham in the Rue du Boccador in Paris.<ref name="1908Obit">{{cite news |title=Duc de Chaulnes Dies in Arms of Wife |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19080425.2.11&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |access-date=10 November 2020 |work=[[San Francisco Call]] |issue=147 |date=25 April 1908|volume = 103}}</ref> Later that same year, Theodora gave birth to their only child:<ref name="1908Burial">{{cite news |title=Duc de Chaulnes Buried. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/04/29/archives/duc-de-chaulnes-buried.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=29 April 1908}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]* Emmanuel ThΓ©odore Bernard Marie II d'Albert de Luynes (1908β1980),<ref name="1908birth">{{cite news |title=HEIR TO DUC DE CHAULNES; Son Born to Widowed Duchess, Daughter of Theodore Shonts. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/11/17/...-son-born-to-widowed-duchess-daughter-of.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=17 November 1908}}</ref><ref name="1908Overjoyed">{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special Cable to THE NEW YORK |title=SHONTS OVERJOYED AT BIRTH OF DUKE; Dances About with Duchesse d'Uzes -- French Relations in Nobility Are Also Happy. BOY IS NAMED FOR FATHER Eleven Members of the Shonts Family in Paris -- Every Courtesy Shown by de Chaulnes's Relatives. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/11/18/...of-duke-dances-about-with-duchesse-duzes.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=18 November 1908}}</ref> [[Duke of Chaulnes]] and [[Picquigny]].<ref name="europeanheraldry">{{cite web |title=Maison d'Albert de Luynes |url=https://www.europeanheraldry.org/france/families/maison-dalbert-de-luynes/ |website=www.europeanheraldry.org |publisher=European Heraldry |accessdate=13 November 2020}}</ref>[/td]
[td]* Emmanuel ThΓ©odore Bernard Marie II d'Albert de Luynes (1908β1980),<ref name="1908birth">{{cite news |title=HEIR TO DUC DE CHAULNES; Son Born to Widowed Duchess, Daughter of Theodore Shonts. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/11/17/...-son-born-to-widowed-duchess-daughter-of.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=17 November 1908}}</ref><ref name="1908Overjoyed">{{cite news |title=SHONTS OVERJOYED AT BIRTH OF DUKE; Dances About with Duchesse d'Uzes -- French Relations in Nobility Are Also Happy. BOY IS NAMED FOR FATHER Eleven Members of the Shonts Family in Paris -- Every Courtesy Shown by de Chaulnes's Relatives. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/11/18/...of-duke-dances-about-with-duchesse-duzes.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=18 November 1908}}</ref> [[Duke of Chaulnes]] and [[Picquigny]].<ref name="europeanheraldry">{{cite web |title=Maison d'Albert de Luynes |url=https://www.europeanheraldry.org/france/families/maison-dalbert-de-luynes/ |website=www.europeanheraldry.org |publisher=European Heraldry |accessdate=13 November 2020}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]She never remarried, but was reportedly wooed by poet [[Andre de Fouquières]] all through the Deauville season in 1913.<ref name="1913woos">{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph To the New York |title=WOOS AMERICAN DUCHESS.; De Fouquieres's Attentions to Shonts's Daughter Attract Deauville |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1913/08/23/...uquieress-attentions-to-shontss-daughter.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=23 August 1913}}</ref>[/td]
[td]She never remarried, but was reportedly wooed by poet [[Andre de Fouquières]] all through the Deauville season in 1913.<ref name="1913woos">{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph To the New York |title=WOOS AMERICAN DUCHESS.; De Fouquieres's Attentions to Shonts's Daughter Attract Deauville |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1913/08/23/...uquieress-attentions-to-shontss-daughter.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=23 August 1913}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]The Duke was interred at [[ChΓ’teau de Dampierre]]<ref name="1908requiem">{{cite news |title=REQUIEM FOR DE CHAULNES.; Celebrated in Presence of Distinguished Assemblage in Paris Church. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/04/28/...-celebrated-in-presence-of-distinguished.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=28 April 1908}}</ref> (from which French thieves stole [[Rubens]] and a [[Raphael]] paintings in 1952).<ref name="1952Thieves">{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special to THE NEW YORK |title=FRENCH THIEVES TAKE RUBENS AND RAPHAEL |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1952/07/19/archives/french-thieves-take-rubens-and-raphael.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=19 July 1952}}</ref> She lived another fifty-eight years until her death on 19 October 1966.<ref name="gallian2007">{{cite web |title=GΓ©nΓ©alogie des familles nobles {{!}} ALBERT de LUYNES |url=http://jean.gallian.free.fr/comm2/Images/genealog/albert/p2a.pdf |website=jean.gallian.free.fr |access-date=12 November 2020 |date=2007}}</ref>[/td]
[td]The Duke was interred at [[ChΓ’teau de Dampierre]]<ref name="1908requiem">{{cite news |title=REQUIEM FOR DE CHAULNES.; Celebrated in Presence of Distinguished Assemblage in Paris Church. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/04/28/...-celebrated-in-presence-of-distinguished.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=28 April 1908}}</ref> (from which French thieves stole [[Rubens]] and a [[Raphael]] paintings in 1952).<ref name="1952Thieves">{{cite news |title=FRENCH THIEVES TAKE RUBENS AND RAPHAEL |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1952/07/19/archives/french-thieves-take-rubens-and-raphael.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=19 July 1952}}</ref> She lived another fifty-eight years until her death on 19 October 1966.<ref name="gallian2007">{{cite web |title=GΓ©nΓ©alogie des familles nobles {{!}} ALBERT de LUYNES |url=http://jean.gallian.free.fr/comm2/Images/genealog/albert/p2a.pdf |website=jean.gallian.free.fr |access-date=12 November 2020 |date=2007}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
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[td]===Widowhood===[/td] [td]Following her husband's death,<ref name="1908Burial"/> she spent the beginning of her widowhood at his family's estate, [[ChΓ’teau de Dampierre]].<ref name="1908birth"/> Upon the birth of her son, President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] wrote to Theodora and her father offering his congratulations.<ref name="theodorerooseveltcenter">{{cite web |title=Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Theodore P. Shonts. Theodore Roosevelt Papers. Library of Congress Manuscript Division. |url=https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library/Record?libID=o205655 |website=www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org |publisher=[[Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library]]. [[Dickinson State University]]. |access-date=3 April 2023}}</ref> In 1911, she rented a villa in [[Cape May, New Jersey]], known as Star Villa, with her mother and sister.<ref name="1911villa">{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Special to The New York |title=DUCHESS DE CHAULNES ILL.; Daughter of Theodore P. Shonts, Now at Cape May, Improving. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1911/08/28/...aughter-of-theodore-p-shonts-now-at-cape.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=28 August 1911}}</ref>[/td]
[td]Following her husband's death,<ref name="1908Burial"/> she spent the beginning of her widowhood at his family's estate, [[ChΓ’teau de Dampierre]].<ref name="1908birth"/> Upon the birth of her son, President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] wrote to Theodora and her father offering his congratulations.<ref name="theodorerooseveltcenter">{{cite web |title=Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Theodore P. Shonts. Theodore Roosevelt Papers. Library of Congress Manuscript Division. |url=https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library/Record?libID=o205655 |website=www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org |publisher=[[Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library]]. [[Dickinson State University]]. |access-date=3 April 2023}}</ref> In 1911, she rented a villa in [[Cape May, New Jersey]], known as Star Villa, with her mother and sister.<ref name="1911villa">{{cite news |title=DUCHESS DE CHAULNES ILL.; Daughter of Theodore P. Shonts, Now at Cape May, Improving. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1911/08/28/...aughter-of-theodore-p-shonts-now-at-cape.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=28 August 1911}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]She often traveled back and forth from Europe and vacationed in [[Hot Springs, Virginia]], socializing with the [[Helena Keith-Falconer, Countess of Kintore|Duchess of Manchester]], a fellow American who married into the European aristocracy.<ref name="1913Christmas">{{cite news |title=CHRISTMAS SHIPS BRING MANY HOME; The Duke of Manchester Says Ulster's 100,000 Men Are Ready to Fight. OPPOSED TO HOME RULE Duchess de Chaulnes and Miss Shonts Among Arrivals;- Big Santa Claus Mail. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1913/12/23/...home-the-duke-of-manchester-says-ulsters.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=23 December 1913}}</ref><ref name="1916Protest">{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Special to The New York |title=DUCHESS ENTERS PROTEST.; Widow of Duke de Chaulnes Takes Up Quarantine Expulsion. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1916/10/25/...otest-widow-of-duke-de-chaulnes-takes-up.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=25 October 1916}}</ref> In 1915, she played a foursome of golf there with the Duchess of Manchester, her sister Marguerite and Isabella May of Washington.<ref name="1915Golfer">{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Special to The New York |title=GOLFERS AT HOT SPRINGS.; The Duchess of Manchester and Duchess de Chaulnes Among Players |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/05/19/...the-duchess-of-manchester-and-duchess-de.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=19 May 1915}}</ref>[/td]
[td]She often traveled back and forth from Europe and vacationed in [[Hot Springs, Virginia]], socializing with the [[Helena Keith-Falconer, Countess of Kintore|Duchess of Manchester]], a fellow American who married into the European aristocracy.<ref name="1913Christmas">{{cite news |title=CHRISTMAS SHIPS BRING MANY HOME; The Duke of Manchester Says Ulster's 100,000 Men Are Ready to Fight. OPPOSED TO HOME RULE Duchess de Chaulnes and Miss Shonts Among Arrivals;- Big Santa Claus Mail. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1913/12/23/...home-the-duke-of-manchester-says-ulsters.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=23 December 1913}}</ref><ref name="1916Protest">{{cite news |title=DUCHESS ENTERS PROTEST.; Widow of Duke de Chaulnes Takes Up Quarantine Expulsion. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1916/10/25/...otest-widow-of-duke-de-chaulnes-takes-up.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=25 October 1916}}</ref> In 1915, she played a foursome of golf there with the Duchess of Manchester, her sister Marguerite and Isabella May of Washington.<ref name="1915Golfer">{{cite news |title=GOLFERS AT HOT SPRINGS.; The Duchess of Manchester and Duchess de Chaulnes Among Players |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/05/19/...the-duchess-of-manchester-and-duchess-de.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=19 May 1915}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]Known for her fashion sense, she was "one of the first to include 'metropolitan' prints in her wardrobe. She has selected the Paris print with the [[Mona Lisa]], the Madeleine and the [[Eiffel Tower]]. She is having it made up in her favorite color combination of black and white."<ref name="1938Crepe">{{cite news |title=Gray Crepe Leads With Europeans |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122219722/gray-crepe-leads-with-europeans/ |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The Knoxville News-Sentinel]] |date=3 April 1938 |pages=77}}</ref> She was supported, financially, in her later years by her friend, "Mrs. [[William Boyce Thompson]], wealthy mother of Mrs. [[Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr.|Tony Drexel Biddle Jr.]]"<ref name="1939Support">{{cite news |last1=Paul |first1=Mary |title=Metropolitan Smart Set |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122219982/metropolitan-smart-set/ |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The San Francisco Examiner]] |date=10 February 1939 |pages=19}}</ref>[/td]
[td]Known for her fashion sense, she was "one of the first to include 'metropolitan' prints in her wardrobe. She has selected the Paris print with the [[Mona Lisa]], the Madeleine and the [[Eiffel Tower]]. She is having it made up in her favorite color combination of black and white."<ref name="1938Crepe">{{cite news |title=Gray Crepe Leads With Europeans |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122219722/gray-crepe-leads-with-europeans/ |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The Knoxville News-Sentinel]] |date=3 April 1938 |pages=77}}</ref> She was supported, financially, in her later years by her friend, "Mrs. [[William Boyce Thompson]], wealthy mother of Mrs. [[Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr.|Tony Drexel Biddle Jr.]]"<ref name="1939Support">{{cite news |last1=Paul |first1=Mary |title=Metropolitan Smart Set |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122219982/metropolitan-smart-set/ |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The San Francisco Examiner]] |date=10 February 1939 |pages=19}}</ref>[/td] [td]==Personal life==[/td]
[td]==Personal life==[/td] [td][[File
uc du Chaulnes 1908 page 239 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Photograph of her husband, [[Emmanuel d'Albert de Luynes]], 1908]][/td][td][[File
uc du Chaulnes 1908 page 239 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Photograph of her husband, [[Emmanuel d'Albert de Luynes]], 1908]][/td]
[td]On February 15, 1908, Theodora married [[Emmanuel d'Albert de Luynes]], [[Duke of Chaulnes]] and [[Picquigny]] at 132 [[35th Street (Manhattan)|East 35th Street]], her father's home in New York City.<ref name="1906Engagement">{{cite news |last1=Cablegram |first1=Special |title=MISS THEODORA SHONTS WILL BE A DUCHESS; Her Engagement to Duc de Chaulnes Announced. ROMANCE BEGAN IN FRANCE The Bride-to-Be Is the Youngest Daughter of the President of the Panama Canal Commission. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1906/11/28/...ll-be-a-duchess-her-engagement-to-duc-de.html |accessdate=10 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=28 November 1906}}</ref><ref name="1908Details">{{cite news |title=SHONTS WEDDING PLANS.; Miss Shonts's Marriage to the Duc de Chaulnes to Take Place at Noon Feb. 15. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/02/01/...-shontss-marriage-to-the-duc-de-chaulnes.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=1 February 1908}}</ref> He was the son of the late Princess Sophie [[House of Golitsyn|Galitzine]] and [[Paul d'Albert de Luynes, Duke of Chaulnes]] and [[Picquigny]] (who both died young).<ref name="europeanheraldry"/><ref name="1908NYTWedding">{{cite news |title=MISS SHONTS BRIDE OF DUC DE CHAULNES; Marriage Ceremony Performed After the French Fashion Before Hundreds of Guests. ONE UNTOWARD INCIDENT Party of Wedding Guests Held Up Between Floors for Fifteen Minutes In the Elevator. MISS SHONTS BRIDE OF DUC DE CHAULNES |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/02/16/...-de-chaulnes-marriage-ceremony-performed.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=16 February 1908}}</ref> His only sibling, Marie Thérèse d'Albert de Luynes, was married to [[Louis de Crussol d'Uzès]], 14th [[Duke of Uzès]].<ref name="1907Engagement">{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Special to The New York |title=MISS SHONTS MAY WED FRENCH DUKE; Her Father Might Consent to Arrange the Customary Settlement. A QUESTION Of HAPPINESS Miss Shonts and Her Mother Show Favor to Titled Suitor -- Duchess May Visit Them. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1907/03/25/...duke-her-father-might-consent-to-arrange.html |accessdate=10 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=25 March 1907}}</ref><ref name="1907Profile">{{cite news |title=Plenty of Romance in the Story of the Next American Duchess; Long Ago Miss Shonts Predicted What is to Happen, While the Duc de Chaulnes Is Rapidly Becoming an American. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1907/11/24/...-story-of-the-next-american-duchess-long.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=24 November 1907}}</ref> The Duke was "good looking, amiable, well educated, and possessed of charming manners." He had a house in the [[8th arrondissement of Paris]] (in Avenue Van-Dyck in the [[Parc Monceau]] quarter) and a chÒteau in the French [[Departments of France|department]] of [[Sarthe]],<ref name="1907Engagement"/> but was cash poor.<ref name="1907Profile"/> The Duke died from heart failure (reportedly due in part to an addiction to [[morphine]] pills) on 24 April 1908, less than three months after their marriage, in his apartment in the Hotel Langham in the Rue du Boccador in Paris.<ref name="1908Obit">{{cite news |title=Duc de Chaulnes Dies in Arms of Wife |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19080425.2.11&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |access-date=10 November 2020 |work=[[San Francisco Call]] |issue=147 |date=25 April 1908|volume = 103}}</ref> Later that same year, Theodora gave birth to their only child:<ref name="1908Burial">{{cite news |title=Duc de Chaulnes Buried. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/04/29/archives/duc-de-chaulnes-buried.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=29 April 1908}}</ref>[/td][td]On February 15, 1908, Theodora married [[Emmanuel d'Albert de Luynes]], [[Duke of Chaulnes]] and [[Picquigny]] at 132 [[35th Street (Manhattan)|East 35th Street]], her father's home in New York City.<ref name="1906Engagement">{{cite news |last1=Cablegram |first1=Special |title=MISS THEODORA SHONTS WILL BE A DUCHESS; Her Engagement to Duc de Chaulnes Announced. ROMANCE BEGAN IN FRANCE The Bride-to-Be Is the Youngest Daughter of the President of the Panama Canal Commission. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1906/11/28/...ll-be-a-duchess-her-engagement-to-duc-de.html |accessdate=10 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=28 November 1906}}</ref><ref name="1908Details">{{cite news |title=SHONTS WEDDING PLANS.; Miss Shonts's Marriage to the Duc de Chaulnes to Take Place at Noon Feb. 15. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/02/01/...-shontss-marriage-to-the-duc-de-chaulnes.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=1 February 1908}}</ref> He was the son of the late Princess Sophie [[House of Golitsyn|Galitzine]] and [[Paul d'Albert de Luynes, Duke of Chaulnes]] and [[Picquigny]] (who both died young).<ref name="europeanheraldry"/><ref name="1908NYTWedding">{{cite news |title=MISS SHONTS BRIDE OF DUC DE CHAULNES; Marriage Ceremony Performed After the French Fashion Before Hundreds of Guests. ONE UNTOWARD INCIDENT Party of Wedding Guests Held Up Between Floors for Fifteen Minutes In the Elevator. MISS SHONTS BRIDE OF DUC DE CHAULNES |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/02/16/...-de-chaulnes-marriage-ceremony-performed.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=16 February 1908}}</ref> His only sibling, Marie Thérèse d'Albert de Luynes, was married to [[Louis de Crussol d'Uzès]], 14th [[Duke of Uzès]].<ref name="1907Engagement">{{cite news |title=MISS SHONTS MAY WED FRENCH DUKE; Her Father Might Consent to Arrange the Customary Settlement. A QUESTION Of HAPPINESS Miss Shonts and Her Mother Show Favor to Titled Suitor -- Duchess May Visit Them. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1907/03/25/...duke-her-father-might-consent-to-arrange.html |accessdate=10 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=25 March 1907}}</ref><ref name="1907Profile">{{cite news |title=Plenty of Romance in the Story of the Next American Duchess; Long Ago Miss Shonts Predicted What is to Happen, While the Duc de Chaulnes Is Rapidly Becoming an American. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1907/11/24/...-story-of-the-next-american-duchess-long.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=24 November 1907}}</ref> The Duke was "good looking, amiable, well educated, and possessed of charming manners." He had a house in the [[8th arrondissement of Paris]] (in Avenue Van-Dyck in the [[Parc Monceau]] quarter) and a chÒteau in the French [[Departments of France|department]] of [[Sarthe]],<ref name="1907Engagement"/> but was cash poor.<ref name="1907Profile"/> The Duke died from heart failure (reportedly due in part to an addiction to [[morphine]] pills) on 24 April 1908, less than three months after their marriage, in his apartment in the Hotel Langham in the Rue du Boccador in Paris.<ref name="1908Obit">{{cite news |title=Duc de Chaulnes Dies in Arms of Wife |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19080425.2.11&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |access-date=10 November 2020 |work=[[San Francisco Call]] |issue=147 |date=25 April 1908|volume = 103}}</ref> Later that same year, Theodora gave birth to their only child:<ref name="1908Burial">{{cite news |title=Duc de Chaulnes Buried. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/04/29/archives/duc-de-chaulnes-buried.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=29 April 1908}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]* Emmanuel ThΓ©odore Bernard Marie II d'Albert de Luynes (1908β1980),<ref name="1908birth">{{cite news |title=HEIR TO DUC DE CHAULNES; Son Born to Widowed Duchess, Daughter of Theodore Shonts. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/11/17/...-son-born-to-widowed-duchess-daughter-of.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=17 November 1908}}</ref><ref name="1908Overjoyed">{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special Cable to THE NEW YORK |title=SHONTS OVERJOYED AT BIRTH OF DUKE; Dances About with Duchesse d'Uzes -- French Relations in Nobility Are Also Happy. BOY IS NAMED FOR FATHER Eleven Members of the Shonts Family in Paris -- Every Courtesy Shown by de Chaulnes's Relatives. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/11/18/...of-duke-dances-about-with-duchesse-duzes.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=18 November 1908}}</ref> [[Duke of Chaulnes]] and [[Picquigny]].<ref name="europeanheraldry">{{cite web |title=Maison d'Albert de Luynes |url=https://www.europeanheraldry.org/france/families/maison-dalbert-de-luynes/ |website=www.europeanheraldry.org |publisher=European Heraldry |accessdate=13 November 2020}}</ref>[/td]
[td]* Emmanuel ThΓ©odore Bernard Marie II d'Albert de Luynes (1908β1980),<ref name="1908birth">{{cite news |title=HEIR TO DUC DE CHAULNES; Son Born to Widowed Duchess, Daughter of Theodore Shonts. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/11/17/...-son-born-to-widowed-duchess-daughter-of.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=17 November 1908}}</ref><ref name="1908Overjoyed">{{cite news |title=SHONTS OVERJOYED AT BIRTH OF DUKE; Dances About with Duchesse d'Uzes -- French Relations in Nobility Are Also Happy. BOY IS NAMED FOR FATHER Eleven Members of the Shonts Family in Paris -- Every Courtesy Shown by de Chaulnes's Relatives. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/11/18/...of-duke-dances-about-with-duchesse-duzes.html |accessdate=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=18 November 1908}}</ref> [[Duke of Chaulnes]] and [[Picquigny]].<ref name="europeanheraldry">{{cite web |title=Maison d'Albert de Luynes |url=https://www.europeanheraldry.org/france/families/maison-dalbert-de-luynes/ |website=www.europeanheraldry.org |publisher=European Heraldry |accessdate=13 November 2020}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]She never remarried, but was reportedly wooed by poet [[Andre de Fouquières]] all through the Deauville season in 1913.<ref name="1913woos">{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph To the New York |title=WOOS AMERICAN DUCHESS.; De Fouquieres's Attentions to Shonts's Daughter Attract Deauville |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1913/08/23/...uquieress-attentions-to-shontss-daughter.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=23 August 1913}}</ref>[/td]
[td]She never remarried, but was reportedly wooed by poet [[Andre de Fouquières]] all through the Deauville season in 1913.<ref name="1913woos">{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph To the New York |title=WOOS AMERICAN DUCHESS.; De Fouquieres's Attentions to Shonts's Daughter Attract Deauville |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1913/08/23/...uquieress-attentions-to-shontss-daughter.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=23 August 1913}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]The Duke was interred at [[ChΓ’teau de Dampierre]]<ref name="1908requiem">{{cite news |title=REQUIEM FOR DE CHAULNES.; Celebrated in Presence of Distinguished Assemblage in Paris Church. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/04/28/...-celebrated-in-presence-of-distinguished.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=28 April 1908}}</ref> (from which French thieves stole [[Rubens]] and a [[Raphael]] paintings in 1952).<ref name="1952Thieves">{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special to THE NEW YORK |title=FRENCH THIEVES TAKE RUBENS AND RAPHAEL |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1952/07/19/archives/french-thieves-take-rubens-and-raphael.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=19 July 1952}}</ref> She lived another fifty-eight years until her death on 19 October 1966.<ref name="gallian2007">{{cite web |title=GΓ©nΓ©alogie des familles nobles {{!}} ALBERT de LUYNES |url=http://jean.gallian.free.fr/comm2/Images/genealog/albert/p2a.pdf |website=jean.gallian.free.fr |access-date=12 November 2020 |date=2007}}</ref>[/td]
[td]The Duke was interred at [[ChΓ’teau de Dampierre]]<ref name="1908requiem">{{cite news |title=REQUIEM FOR DE CHAULNES.; Celebrated in Presence of Distinguished Assemblage in Paris Church. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/04/28/...-celebrated-in-presence-of-distinguished.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=28 April 1908}}</ref> (from which French thieves stole [[Rubens]] and a [[Raphael]] paintings in 1952).<ref name="1952Thieves">{{cite news |title=FRENCH THIEVES TAKE RUBENS AND RAPHAEL |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1952/07/19/archives/french-thieves-take-rubens-and-raphael.html |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=19 July 1952}}</ref> She lived another fifty-eight years until her death on 19 October 1966.<ref name="gallian2007">{{cite web |title=GΓ©nΓ©alogie des familles nobles {{!}} ALBERT de LUYNES |url=http://jean.gallian.free.fr/comm2/Images/genealog/albert/p2a.pdf |website=jean.gallian.free.fr |access-date=12 November 2020 |date=2007}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
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