Regina von Habsburg

Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen
Crown Princess of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia
Spouse	Otto, Crown Prince of Austria
Issue	Archduchess Andrea, Countess of Neipperg Archduchess Monika, Duchess of Santangelo Archduchess Michaela Archduchess Gabriela of Austria Archduchess Walburga Archduke Karl Archduke Georg
House	House of Saxe-Meiningen House of Habsburg-Lorraine
Father	Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen
Mother	Countess Klara Maria of Korff genannt Schmissing-Kerssenbrock

Regina, Crown Princess of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia (née Princess Regina Helene Elizabeth Margarete of Saxe-Meiningen) (6 January 1925 - 3 February 2010), is a member of the House of Wettin. She is titular Crown Princess of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, since the titles of nobility were abolished in these countries and law forbids their usage.

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.

Archduchess Regina died on 3 February 2010.

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 Alba Teran d'Antin (divorced) and secondly to Count Hubertus of Kageneck (divorced), has issue by Eric Alba Teran d'Antin (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)

Ancestry

Family of Regina von Habsburg

16. Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen 8. Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen 17. Marie Fredericka of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) 4. Prince Frederick John of Saxe-Meiningen 18. Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg 9. Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langeburg 19. Princess Feodora of Leiningen 2. Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen 20. Count Julius of Lippe-Biesterfeld 10. Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld 21. Countess Adelheid of Castell-Castell 5. Countess Adelaide of Lippe-Biesterfeld 22. Leopold, Count of Wartensleben 11. Countess Caroline of Wartensleben 23. Matilde Halbach-Bohlen 1. Regina of Saxe-Meiningen 24. Maximilian Franz Xaver, Count of Korff 12. Maximilian Frederick, Count of Korff 25. Countess Julie Agnes Emilie of Stolberg-Stolberg 6. Alfred, Count of Korff 26. Gotthard Friedrich, Count of Mirbach 13. Countess Gabrielle of Mirbach-Kosmanos 27. Countess Mathilde Friederike of Pachta 3. Countess Clara Maria of Korff 28. Henry, Baron of Hilgers 14. Francis Richard, Baron of Hilgers 29. Helena von Hontheim 7. Baroness Hélène of Hilgers 30. Eduard Zernentsch 15. Agnes Zernentsch 31. Clara Lucius

References

German Biography in Wikipedia