| Princess Irina of Hesse | |
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| Countess of Schönburg-Glauchau | |
| Spouse | Alexander, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau |
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| Countess Maria-Letitia Count Maximus Carolus Joachim Maria Count Valentin Polykarp Josef Maria |
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| German: Irina Verena | |
| House | House of Hesse-Kassel House of Schönburg |
| Father | Prince Karl Adolf Andreas of Hesse |
| Mother | Countess Yvonne Szapáry |
| Born | 1 April 1971 Munich, Bavaria |
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Irina, Countess of Schönburg-Glauchau (born 1 April 1971), is a Hessian princess by birth and the wife of Alexander, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau,[1] the bestselling writer and journalist. A granddaughter of Prince Christoph of Hesse, she now holds the title Countess of Schönburg-Glauchau as the wife of the head of the comital branch of the former sovereign aristocratic house of Schönburg.
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She was born Princess Irina Verena of Hesse in Munich, Bavaria, the second child and first daughter of Prince Karl Adolf Andreas of Hesse (born 26 March 1937 in Berlin), son of Prince Christoph of Hesse and Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, and his wife Yvonne Szapáry of Muraszombath, Széchysziget and Szapár (born 4 April 1944 in Budapest), a Hungarian countess.[2] Her father had been adopted by his childless uncle Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, his father Christoph's elder brother, when Christoph, a high-ranking Nazi, was killed in 1943.
Irina is the grandniece of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (whose husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, a born prince of Greece and Denmark, is the brother of her grandmother Sophie); the half-niece of Prince Georg of Hanover, Prince Welf Ernst of Hanover, and Princess Friederike of Hanover; the first cousin once removed of the current head of the House of Hesse, Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, and the second cousin of the erbprinz, Donatus, Hereditary Prince of Hesse.
As a teenager, Irina attended Felixstowe College for Young Ladies in Suffolk and was a member of Tyndale House.
She is Roman Catholic and a vegetarian. She is the sister-in-law of Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis, a pop icon in the 1980s.
Irina Verena, Princess of Hesse married Alexander, Count von Schönburg-Glauchau civilly on 30 April 1999 and religiously on 29 May 1999 at St Caecilia's Church of Heusenstamm, Hesse. They have three children:
She and her children are direct descendants of Queen Victoria through her daughters Victoria and Alice (Irina being a great-granddaughter of Princess Margaret of Prussia, Landgravine of Hesse, the youngest daughter of the Empress Frederick, and a great-great-granddaughter of Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, the eldest daughter of Princess Louis).
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