Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Archduchess of Austria
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Place of Birth: Brussels metropolitan area, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
About Princess Stéphanie of Belgium
- Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (21 May 1864 – 23 August 1945), a Belgian princess by birth, became Crown Princess of Austria through her marriage to the heir-apparent of the Habsburg dynasty, Archduke Rudolf.
- She was famously widowed in 1889 when 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.
- Her grandfather Leopold I of Belgium was the country's first king.
- Her aunt, Charlotte of Belgium, the future ill-fated Empress of Mexico, was married to Maximilian, the brother of her future father-in law, the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph.
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