After divorcing Barbara Hutton on March 1st, 1941, he met and latter married another American heiress, Margaret Astor Drayton, born 1915, on July 30, 1942 in Colorado Springs, CO. In 1947 their only child was born, Kurt Robert, count von Haugwitz, who married in 1985 Julienne Le Tonneux von Saint Paul, born 1946.