Saturday, March 12, 2016

Adding again to the collection

In October 1924,  Princess Anna of Saxony, daughter of King Friedrich August III and Archduchess Luisa of Austria, married Archduke Josef Franz of Austria, son of Archduke Josef August and Princess Auguste of Bavaria.  This image is from late 1928 early 1929, and shows the Archducal couple with their first three children:  Archduchess Margarethe (1925-1979), Archduchess Helena (1927-2011) and Archduchess Anna (1928-1934).  The couple would have five more children.

Princess Alfons was born Princess Louise d'Orleans (1869-1952).  She married Prince Alfons of Bavaria in 1891.  They had two children, Josef Clemens (1902-1990) and Elisabet  (1913-2005) 

Princess Adalbert of Bavaria (nee Countess Auguste of Seefried auf Buttenheim) (1899-1978) holding her first grandchild, (Prince Leopold (1943), the first child of Prince Konstantin and his first wife, Princess Maria Adelgunde of Hohenzollern.  This  marriage was annulled in 1950.

In 1953,  Prince Konstantin (1920-1969)  married Countess Helene Khevenhüller-Metsch (1921) 
Princess Luise Viktoria Margarete Antoinette Sieglinde Alexandrine Thyra Stephanie of Prussia(1917-2009), first child of Prince Friedrich Sigismund of Prussia and Princess Marie Luise of Schaumburg-Lippe

Princess Konstantin (Helene) with her young daughter, Princess Ysabel (1954), who is married to Count Alfred Hoyos.  A year after Prince Konstantin's death in an air crash, Helene married Prince Eugen of Bavaria (1925-1997)

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