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Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie and Son Participate in Literacy Initiative

December 24, 2023 at 3:43 pm by TheRoyalForums

Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie of Luxembourg and her eldest son Charles participated in this year’s initiative of the non-profit organisation ‘Freed um Liesen’. Every day a book was revealed in the organisation’s advent calender. The Hereditary Grand Duchess chose to read ‘The Little Prince’ by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. She read it in the Letzeburg language.

On This Day: Death of Stéphanie of Belgium, Would-Be Empress

August 23, 2015 at 12:00 pm by JessRulz

August 23 marks the anniversary of the death of Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, the woman who, had events not occurred how they did, would likely have become the Empress of Austria. Born in May 1864, she was the second daughter of King Leopold II of the Belgians and his Austrian Archduchess wife, Marie Henriette. An unhappy childhood was a symptom of her parents’ unhappy marriage; their three daughters were left … Continue reading →