I found out some interesting stuff while googling...
After her father died her guardian was her father's best friend Landgraf Friedrich Michael von Fürstenberg-Weitra......She used to spend time with her cousin Count Christian Kinsky and his wife Therese,Countess Wrbna at castle Matzen...Apart from that she had companion in her mother's niece Elvira whose father also died and her guardian was again her father's best friend Count Huyn...
She with her cousin had a first "crush" on Friedrich von Hadeln...Before her marriage Countess Berha Kinsky had several options for marriage...When she was 13 she was proposed by Prince Philipp zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg but her mother declined due to her young age...After that she was engaged to an old milllionair but couldn't do it and returned his gifts and broke off her engagement...after that she was proposed by an elderly Napolitanian Prince who was chief steward of Queen Maria of Naples,but she declined due to his age(he already had twenty-five-year-old son)...Countess Bertha was a close friend of Princess Ekaterina Dadiani,Princess of Mingrelia and through her she met her cousin Prince Heraclius Bagration,son of the last King of Georgia,but that became more or less just a summer crush and after he was engaged with Princess Tamara Chavchavadze...after that she was proposed by a fraud,false millionair...She was finally happy when she met her REAL PRINCE and they became engaged...His name was Prince Adolf zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein...they shared passion for music and he had some arrangements in New York...they postponed their wedding after his trip,but while traveling to US Prince Adolf died and was burried at sea...
Until then,she really didn't have luck a first...When young she was relatively well off due to her guardian and her mother who didn't have to spend her own money and traveled from castle to castle...After Landgraves death her mother lost some of her von Körner possesions in Italy because Austria lost Milan...after that they bought a villa near Vienna and lived there...they spent almost all their money traveling around Europe and trying to purchase an opera career for Bertha(her mother's dream of youth)...She was in very awkward situation...having been a daughter of a Imperial Lieutenant Field-Marshal and Actual Chamberlain,Count Franz Joseph Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau(of an ancient family) and a mere noble Sophie Wilhelmine von Körner,daughter of Herr Joseph von Körner,Captain of Cavalry in the Royal and Imperial Army and Anna von Hahn,she didn't have 16 great-great-grandparents noble enough which would make her presented at court and enter Vienna ''societe''...cream de la cream...so,she was in some kind of a ''Teck'' situation,had just the family name of Kinsky,but not rich...and therefore she was just left with her mother who had her inalienable widow's portion left, and enough for Bertha to provide a suitable trousseau for her eventual marriage...her mother could live on her widow's portion, but she did not want to be a burden upon her and remain inactive at home in narrow circumstances...That's why she decided to use her skills in German,English,French,Italian and music and become a instructor and companion to four grown-up daughters in the baronial house of Suttner...she has previously known the rich family from her Baden-Baden summer trips!
And there she met Baron Arthur Gundakar von Suttner...
