Regina, Crown Princess of Austria

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Regina von Habsburg
Born Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen
January 6, 1925 (1925-01-06) (age 83)
Würzburg
Title Archduchess and Crown Princess of Austria, Crown Princess of Hungary and Bohemia
Princess of Saxe-Meiningen
Spouse Otto von Habsburg
Parents Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen and Countess Klara Maria of Korff genannt Schmissing-Kerssenbrock
Titular Austrian Imperial Family
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Regina, Crown Princess of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia (née Princess Regina Helene Elizabeth Margarete of Saxe-Meiningen) (born 6 January 1925), is a member of the House of Wettin and Crown Princess of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia by marriage.

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[edit] Life

She was born in Würzburg the youngest of the four children born from the marriage of Prince Georg of Saxe-Meiningen (titular Duke of Saxe-Meiningen) and Countess Klara Maria of Korff genannt Schmissing-Kerssenbrock.

Regina is the only one of her siblings to have children: of her two older brothers, Anton Ulrich died aged twenty, killed in action during the World War II, and Frederick Alfred became a Carthusian monk who renounced his succession rights. Regina's only sister, Marie Elisabeth, died aged three months in 1923, before Regina's birth.

On 10 May 1951 Regina married Otto, Crown Prince of Austria, son of the last Emperor of Austria, Charles I, in the Église of the Cordeliers in Nancy, France, with the blessing of Pope Pius XII. Since her marriage she has used the names Regina, Crown Princess of Austria or Regina von Habsburg.

Since 10 May 1954 Regina and Otto have lived at his official residence in the Villa Austria, also called the "Kaiservilla" (Emperor's Villa), in Pöcking near Lake Starnberg.

On 2 December 2005 she suffered a brain injury and was taken to a hospital of Nancy. Nevertheless, by 22 February 2006 she had recovered sufficiently to participate in the transfer of the remains of her mother Duchess Klara and her older brother Anton Ulrich to the vault of the Veste Heldburg in the Churchyard of Heldburg in the district of Hildburghausen. The transfer of the remains of her father Duke Georg III from Tscherepowez (Russia), where he died as a Russian POW in 1946, took place in the spring of 2007.

[edit] Issue

With Otto, Regina has seven children; two sons and five daughters:

  • Archduchess Andrea (born 1953), married Karl Eugen, Hereditary Count of Neipperg, has issue (three sons and two daughters)
  • Archduchess Monika (twin, born 1954), married Luis Gonzaga de Casanova-Cárdenas y Barón, Duke of Santangelo, Marquess of Elche, Count of Lodosa and Grandee of Spain, who is a descendant of Infanta Luisa Teresa of Spain, Duchess of Sessa and sister of Francis, King-Consort of Spain, has issue (four sons)
  • Archduchess Michaela (twin, born 1954), married firstly to Eric Teran d'Antin (divorced) and secondly to Count Hubertus of Kageneck (divorced), has issue by Hubertus (two sons and a daughter)
  • Archduchess Gabriela (born 1956), married Christian Meister (divorced), has issue (a son and two daughters)
  • Archduchess Walburga (born 1958), married Count Archibald Douglas, has issue (a son)
  • Archduke Karl (born 11 January 1961), married Baroness Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, has issue (a son and two daughters), heir apparent
  • Archduke Georg (born 1964), married Duchess Eilika of Oldenburg, has issue (a son and two daughters)

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German Biography in Wikipedia

Regina, Crown Princess of Austria
Born: 6 January 1925
Austro-Hungarian royalty
Vacant
Title last held by
Stéphanie of Belgium		 Crown Princess of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia
10 May 1951-		 Incumbent
Titles in pretence
Vacant
Title last held by
Zita of Bourbon-Parma		 — TITULAR —
Empress of Austria
10 May 1951-		 Incumbent
Designated heir:
Archduchess Francesca
— TITULAR —
Queen of Hungary and Bohemia
10 May 1951-