Archduchess Marie Astrid of Austria

Archduchess Marie Astrid (more)
Born (1954-02-17) 17 February 1954
Castle Betzdorf
Spouse Archduke Carl Christian of Austria (m. 1982)
Issue Archduchess Marie Christine, Countess of Limburg-Stirum
Archduke Imre
Archduke Christoph
Archduke Alexander
Archduchess Gabriella
Full name
Marie-Astrid Liliane Charlotte Léopoldine Wilhelmine Ingeborg Antoinette Élisabeth Anne Alberte
House Bourbon-Parma
Father Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Mother Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium
Austrian Imperial Family

HI&RH Archduke Karl
HI&RH Archduchess Francesca
Styles of
Archduchess Marie-Astrid of Austria
Reference style Her Imperial and Royal Highness
Spoken style Your Imperial and Royal Highness
Alternative style Ma'am

Archduchess Marie Astrid of Austria (née Princess Marie Astrid of Luxembourg; born 17 February 1954 at Castle Betzdorf) is the elder daughter and eldest child of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg and Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, and the wife of Archduke Carl Christian of Austria. Her godparents are King Leopold III of Belgium (her maternal grandfather) and Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg (her paternal grandmother).

Biography

In her youth, as one of the few eligible royal princesses from European reigning houses, she was considered an ideal candidate by royal watchers for marriage to Charles, Prince of Wales. Media reports in the 1970s regularly speculated about the prospects of such a marriage, the Daily Express claiming in June 1977 that the couple's engagement was imminent.[1] (Unconfirmed media reports in the British press claimed that Pope Paul VI had prevented a marriage by refusing under Ne Temere to accept that the children of the couple could not be brought up Roman Catholic.)

It has been since suggested that the marriage rumours were a result of efforts to detect a leaker in the Privy Council. In reality, a marriage between the British heir and the Roman Catholic princess was unlikely, as the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701 would have had to have been repealed or modified.

The Archduchess studied in Luxembourg and also in Belgium. She received her diploma as a registered nurse in 1974, and finished her education in 1977, with a nursing certificate in tropical medicine from the Prince Leopold Institute.

She has been the President of the Red Cross for Luxembourg Youth since 1970.

Marriage

On 6 February 1982 in Luxembourg she married her second cousin Archduke Carl Christian of Austria (born in Belœil, 6 February 1954) also known as Christian, 1,289th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Austria, younger son of Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria (himself the fourth son of Emperor Charles I of Austria) and his wife Princess Yolande of Ligne, of the prominent Belgian noble family, the House of Ligne.

They have five children and five grandchildren:

Marie-Astrid is also godmother to Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Archduke Joseph of Austria and Anna Maria von Auersperg-Trautson.

Archduchess Marie-Astrid and her family live quietly, occasionally appearing at royal weddings and similar events.

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

Honours

National honours

See also List of honours of the Luxembourgish Grand-Ducal Family by country

As Princess of Luxembourg, at 18 years old :

Foreign honours

Ancestry

References

  1. ↑ "the royals and the press". pbs.org.
  2. ↑ Paul Theroff's Royal News of 2008
  3. ↑ Lux-arazzi, Archduke "marries American"
  4. ↑ Tageblatt.lu (German), Photos from the wedding
  5. ↑ http://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/its-girl.html
  6. ↑ http://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-new-habsburg.html
  7. ↑ Information given on the blog "Royalement-Blog" (French)
  8. ↑ http://www.noblesseetroyautes.com/2015/01/naissance-de-larchiduchesse-katarina-dautriche/
  9. ↑ Honorary distinctions of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, publication of the government of Luxembourg : Princes and Princesses of the Grand-Ducal House of Luxembourg are Grand Crosses of the Order by birth but the decoration is worm only after they reach their majority (18 years old).
  10. ↑ Badraie
  11. ↑ Badraie
  12. ↑ Boletín Oficial del Estado
  13. ↑ Boletín Oficial del Estado


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, April 07, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.