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Archduchess Ilona of Austria

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Name
  
Archduchess of


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Born
  
20 April 1927Budapest, Hungary (
1927-04-20
)

Issue
  
Duchess Elisabeth ChristineDuchess Marie CatherineDuchess IreneBorwin, Duke of Mecklenburg

Mother
  
Princess Anna of Saxony

Died
  
January 12, 2011, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Spouse
  
Children
  
Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg

Parents
  
Princess Anna of Saxony, Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria

Siblings
  
Archduke Geza of Austria

House
  
House of Habsburg, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Archduchess Ilona of Austria (German: Erzherzogin Ilona von Österreich; 20 April 1927 – 12 January 2011) was a member of the Hungarian Palatine branch of the House of Habsburg. She was married and later divorced from the late head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg.

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Family and marriage

Archduchess Ilona (Helene) of Austria was born in Budapest, Hungary the second daughter and child of Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria and his wife Princess Anna of Saxony. Her father was the son of Archduke Joseph August of Austria who was one of the heads of the provisional government of Hungary following the removal of King Charles IV. Her mother was a daughter of the last king of Saxony, Frederick Augustus III.

Ilona married Duke Georg Alexander of Mecklenburg civilly on 20 February 1946 and religiously on 30 April 1946 in Sigmaringen, Württemberg-Hohenzollern during the allied occupation of Germany. Her husband was the eldest child and heir of George, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and his first wife Irina Mikhailovna Raievskya.

On 6 July 1963, following the death of her father in law her husband became the new head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Ilona and Georg Alexander had three daughters and a son before divorcing on 12 December 1974.

Ilona died in the morning of 12 January 2011 in Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, aged 83.

Titles

  • 1927 – 1946: Her Imperial and Royal Highness Archduchess Ilona of Austria
  • 1946 - 1963: Her Imperial and Royal Highness Archduchess Ilona of Austria, The Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  • 1963 - 1974: Her Imperial and Royal Highness Archduchess Ilona of Austria, The Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  • 1974 – 2011: Her Imperial and Royal Highness Archduchess Ilona of Austria, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  • National dynastic honours

  • House of Habsburg: Dame of the Imperial and Royal Order of the Starry Cross, 1st Class
  • House of Mecklenburg: Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Royal House Order of the Wendish Crown
  • Foreign honours

  •  Italy
  •  Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Knight Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, 3rd First Class
  • References

    Archduchess Ilona of Austria Wikipedia


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