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Archduchess Ilona of Austria (German: Ilona Erzherzogin von Österreich; 20 April 1927 – 12 January 2011) was a member of the Hungarian Palatine branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. 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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Her father collected some of the family's personal items, such as the first pair of shoes worn by each of his children. Among these keepsakes was a poem written for him by a young Gisela one Christmas; the poem was said to be the most treasured item among this collection. Archduchess Gisela was also known to paint in her later years.
On 20 April 1873, at the age of 16, Gisela was married to Prince Leopold of Bavaria in Vienna. Prince Leopold was a son of Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria and Auguste Ferdinande of Austria: Gisela's second cousin. Leopold had initially fallen for Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, whom Empress Elisabeth's younger brother Duke Maximilian Em...
A year after her wedding, she gave birth to her first child and even Empress Elisabeth was present during the baptism. Gisela and Leopold had four children in total: 1. Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria(1874–1957), who married Count Otto Ludwig Philipp von Seefried auf Buttenheim 2. Princess Auguste Maria of Bavaria (1875–1964), who married Josep...
Especially after the death of her brother, Gisela was deeply involved in a variety of social and political issues and founded charities to support the poor, blind, and deaf people where she took an active role herself. During World War I she ran a military hospital in her Palais while her husband was a field marshal on the eastern front. When the R...
Gisela and her husband celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1923. Her husband died in 1930; Gisela only survived him by two years. She died aged 76 in Munich on 27 July 1932, and is buried next to Prince Leopold in the Colombarium at the St.Michaelskirche, Munich.
She received the following orders: 1. Austria-Hungary: 1.1. Dame of the Order of the Starry Cross 1.2. Grand Cross of the Order of Elizabeth, 1898 2. Kingdom of Bavaria: 2.1. Dame of the Order of Theresa 2.2. Dame of the Order of Saint Elizabeth 3. Kingdom of Portugal: Dame of the Order of Saint Isabel 4. Spain: 601st Dame of the Order of Queen Mar...
Leopold Prinz von Bayern: LebenserinnerungenMartha Schad: Kaiserin Elisabeth und ihre Töchter, Piper 2006Friedrich Weissensteiner: Liebeshimmel und Ehehöllen, Heyne 2000Archduchess Ilona of Austria. Her Imperial and Royal Highness Ilona, Imperial Princess and Archduchess of Austria, Royal Princess of Hungary, Bohemia etc etc was born on 20 April 1927 in Budapest. She was the daughter of Archduke József Ferenc (Joseph Franz) and Archduchess Anna of Austria.
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie Henriette Stephanie Gisela of Austria (Hungarian: Erzsébet Mária Henrietta Stefánia Gizella; 2 September 1883 – 16 March 1963) was the only child of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, and Princess Stéphanie of Belgium.
