Name Countess Keglevich | ||
Period 21 April 1971 – 5 October 1983 Born 23 April 1921
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary ( 1921-04-23 ) Father Count Stephan Keglevich of Buzin Mother Countess Klara Zichy of Zich and Vasonkeo Died October 5, 1983, Guswerk, Austria Spouse Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria (m. 1971–1983) Parents Count Stephan Keglevich of Buzin House House of Keglevic, House of Wittelsbach Similar People Franz - Duke of Bavaria, Prince Max - Duke in Bavaria, Rupprecht - Crown Prince of | ||
Countess Marie-Jenke Keglevich of Buzin (23 April 1921 – 5 October 1983) was the second wife of Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, head of the House of Wittelsbach and pretender to the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1955 to 1996 as well as Jacobite pretender to the thrones of England, Scotland, Ireland and France.
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Wittelsbach loyalists hold that she was the rightful Queen Consort of Bavaria from 1971-83. Jacobites consider her the rightful Queen Consort of England, Scotland, Ireland and France during the same period.
Early life
Marie-Jenke was born at Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary on 23 April 1921, descended from the House of Keglević, a Croatian noble family. She was the fourth child and only daughter of Count Stephan Keglevich of Buzin (Croatian: Stjepan Keglević Buzinski) and Countess Klára Zichy of Zich and Vásonkeö.
Marriage and family
Countess Marie-Jenke married on 21 April 1971 in Weichselboden, Styria Austria, to Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, son of Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria and his first wife, Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria and grandson of King Ludwig III of Bavaria. They had no issue. Albrecht had been married previously to Countess Maria Draskovich of Trakostjan who died in 1969.
She co-authored her husband's book on "the habits of deer" for which both of them received honorary doctorates by the biological faculty of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She died in a car accident in their private hunting district in a mountain forest in Styria, Austria.