Princess Gabrielle von Lobkowicz was born in Vienna in 1793 and        
          was only eighteen when she fell in love and married Prince Vinzenz von     
          Auersperg. However, the marriage was not to last for long as only four     
          months later Prince Vinzenz died. Another five months later, on 15         
          July 1812, Gabrielle gave birth to their son who was named Vinzenz         
          after his father. From then on she lived with her parents-in-law in        
          Vienna's Auersperg Palace. However, as the widow of a younger son she      
          was of no social consequence and would have remained so except for her     
          beauty.                                                                    
              After the defeat of Napoleon the Congress of Vienna made Vienna        
          the centre of Europe. Not only Emperor Franz entertained but so did        
          all the great houses in Vienna: Schwarzenberg, Harrach, Schoenborn and     
          Auersperg. Auersperg Palace had been built by the great baroque            
          architect, Fischer von Erlach.                                             
              When in November of 1818 the unmarried Russian Emperor Alexander I     
          arrived, people were soon looking to see where his fancies would take      
          him. However, Emperor Alexander I lunched every day with Austria's         
          Emperor Franz and socialized only with the families Zichy,                 
          Schwarzenberg and Auersperg.                                               
              Nevertheless Emperor Alexander had certainly noticed the young and     
          beautiful widow Princess Gabrielle von Auersperg and, before he left       
          in February 1819, gave her about twenty to thirty cabochons of             
          different sizes, two large ear-drops, and two emeralds of a rich dark      
          green that came from the Urals.                                            
              A serious-minded young woman, Princess Gabrielle became a member       
          of the "Anstandsliga" (Decency League) which had been founded by a         
          group of ladies during the Congress when moral values were said to         
          have deteriorated badly. She never remarried and died, aged almost         
          seventy, on 11 May 1863.  
 

Source: Leo van de Pas