Count Albert von Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein
| Albert Count von Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein | |
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| Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to the United Kingdom | |
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In office 28 April 1904 – 13 August 1914 |
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| Preceded by | Franz Count Deym von Stritez |
| Succeeded by | None |
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| Born |
5 September 1861 Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) |
| Died | 15 June 1945 (aged 83) Vienna, Austria |
Albert Viktor Julius Joseph Michael Count von Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein (5 September 1861 – 15 June 1945), was an Austro-Hungarian diplomat serving as Ambassador to London at the outbreak of World War I.
Born in Lemberg (now Lviv) on 5 September 1861 as the second son of Alexander von Mensdorff-Pouilly, Prince Dietrichstein von Nicolsburg, a former Austro-Hungarian politician, and his wife Alexandrine (née Countess von Dietrichstein-Proskau und Leslie), heiress of the Princes Dietrichstein. The Mensdorff-Pouilly family originated from Lorraine in France and had fled the French revolution in 1790.
Count von Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein entered the Austro-Hungarian foreign service in 1884 and was assigned as an attaché to the embassy in Paris and transferred to London in 1889. His family connections with the British court, derived through the marriage of his grandfather Count Emmanuel von Mensdorff-Pouilly with Queen Victoria's aunt, Princess Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and his father had been a godson and friend of Queen Victoria's husband, the Prince Consort. On 6 May 1904, he presented his credentials as Ambassador of the Dual Monarchy at the Court of St. James's, a promotion over the heads of many of his seniors that had come at the request of his second cousin King Edward VII.
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