Person:Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (1)
Princess Stéphanie of Belgium
b.21 May 1864 Laken, Brabant, Belgium
d.23 Aug 1945 Pannonhalma, Győr-Sopron, Hungary
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Princess Louise-Marie of Belgium1858 - 1924
  2. Prince Leopold _____, Duke of Brabant1859 - 1869
  3. Princess Stéphanie of Belgium1864 - 1945
  4. Princess Clémentine of Belgium1872 - 1955
Spouse and Children
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  1. Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria1883 - 1963
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Facts and Events
Name Princess Stéphanie of Belgium
Gender Female
Birth[1] 21 May 1864 Laken, Brabant, Belgium
Marriage to Rudolf _____, Crown Prince of Austria
Death[1] 23 Aug 1945 Pannonhalma, Győr-Sopron, Hungary
Reference Number? Q170197?


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Princess Stéphanie Clotilde Louise Herminie Marie Charlotte of Belgium (21 May 1864 – 23 August 1945) was a Belgian princess who became Crown Princess of Austria through marriage to Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Princess Stéphanie was the second daughter of King Leopold II of Belgium and Marie Henriette of Austria. She married in Vienna on 10 May 1881 Crown Prince Rudolf, son and heir of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. They had one child, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie. Stéphanie's marriage quickly became fragile. Rudolf, depressed and disappointed by politics, had multiple extramarital affairs and contracted a venereal disease that he transmitted to his wife, rendering her unable to conceive again. In 1889 Rudolf and his mistress Mary Vetsera were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide pact at the imperial hunting lodge at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods.

In 1900, Stéphanie married again, to , a Hungarian nobleman of lower rank; for this, she was excluded from the House of Austria-Hungary. However, this second union was happy. After the death of her father in 1909, Stéphanie joined her older sister Louise to claim from the Belgian courts the share of the inheritance of which they both felt they had been stripped.

Until World War II, Count and Countess Lónyay (elevated to the princely rank in 1917) peacefully spent their lives at Rusovce Mansion in Slovakia. In 1935, Stéphanie published her memoirs, entitled Je devais être impératrice ("I Had to Be Empress"). In 1944, she disinherited her daughter, who had divorced to live with a socialist deputy and whom she had not seen since 1925. The arrival of the Red Army in April 1945, at the end of the war, forced Stéphanie and her husband to leave their residence and take refuge in the Pannonhalma Archabbey in Hungary. Stéphanie died of a stroke in the abbey later the same year.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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