 The Whitehead family married into some of the most influential in Europe with Bertie’s cousin Marguerite marrying Herbert von Bismark, son of the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, whilst another cousin Agathe Whitehead, fell in love with and married an Austrian Kapitanleutnant Georg Johannes von Trapp.Agathe died of scarlet fever in 1922 leaving Georg to bring up their 7 children with the help of a governess from the nearby Benedictine Nunnery, who taught them music.The musical "The Sound of Music" is very loosely based on the story of von Trapp and the governess Maria von Trapp who he later married.