Diana Phipps Sternberg

Countess Diana Phipps Sternberg was a Czech noble woman, interior designer, and philanthropist.

Biography

Diana Franziska Alice Mary Guadeloupe Sternberg was born on 22 February 1936 in Vienna, Austria to Leopold Sternberg and Countess Cecilia Reventlow-Criminil.
Sternberg married Henry Ogden Phipps, an American financier, at the Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church in Kingston, Jamaica on 23 April 1957. They had one daughter, Alexandra Hardegg. Henry died on 11 April 1962.
A lover of interior design, she published the book 'Affordable Splendour' in 1981 which gave an inspiring catalogue of interior design schemes based on the lavish interiors and photographs, showing readers how it could all be achieved at home with modest budgets and DIY crafting.
Sternberg lived in London, England until the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. Častolovice Castle and Zásmuky Château were returned to Sternberg in restitution on 31 October 1992.
Sternberg died in Vienna on 31 July 2024, at the age of 88.