Name Princess Maria | House Austria-Este | |
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Born 11 October 1995 (age 28)
Clinique Saint Jean, Brussels, Belgium ( 1995-10-11 ) Father Archduke Lorenz of Austria-Este Mother Princess Astrid of Belgium Parents Princess Astrid of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este, Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este Siblings Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este Grandparents Queen Paola of Belgium, Albert II of Belgium Cousins Princess Elisabeth - Duchess, Prince Gabriel of Belgium, Prince Emmanuel of Belgium, Princess Eleonore of Belgium, Prince Aymeric of Belgium Similar People Princess Laetitia Maria of, Princess Maria Laura of, Princess Astrid of Belgium, Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Prince Joachim of Belgium | ||
Princess Luisa Maria of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este (Luisa Maria Anna Martine Pilar; born 11 October 1995) is the fourth child and second daughter of Lorenz, Archduke of Austria-Este and Princess Astrid of Belgium. She was born at the Saint Jean Clinic , Brussels, Belgium and is currently tenth in line to the Belgian throne.
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Biography
All of her grandparents and great-grandparents are either royal or noble; she descends from the Austrian, Belgian, Italian, Swedish, French, Danish, British, Portuguese, Spanish, and German royal families. As she was born after the 1991 change of the constitution, which abolished Salic Law, she is the first Belgian princess to be born with full succession rights to the throne.
She has two older brothers, Amedeo (b. 1986) and Joachim (b. 1991), one older sister, Maria Laura (b. 1988) and one younger sister, Laetitia Maria (b. 2003).
After having been educated at Sint-Jan-Berchmans School in Brussels – as most young members of the royal family do – she attended Sevenoaks School in Kent, England, since 2009, a school already attended by her eldest brother, Amedeo. She is attending university in McGill University in Montreal, Canada. In 2017, she traveled through Australia with a group of university friends.
In 2003 she was a flower girl at the wedding of her other maternal uncle Prince Laurent to Claire Coombs. She was also a bridesmaid along with her younger sister Princess Laetitia Maria at the July 2014 wedding of their brother, Prince Amedeo.
Titles and styles
All the children of The Archduke of Austria-Este, Prince Lorenz, bear the title "Prince(ss) of Belgium" by Belgian Royal Decree of 2 December 1991, this in addition to their Austrian titles by tradition i.e. "Archduke/Archduchess of Austria-Este, Prince(ss) Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, Prince(ss) of Modena". Internationally Luisa Maria is shortly styled as HI&RH Princess Luisa Maria of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este.