Laetitia d'Arenberg
| Archduchess Laetitia | |||||
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| Born |
2 September 1941 Brummana |
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| Spouse |
Archduke Leopold Franz of Austria (1965-1981) John Anson |
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| Issue |
Archduke Sigismund, Grand Duke of Tuscany Archduke Guntram of Austria |
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| House | House of Habsburg-Lorraine (by marriage) | ||||
| Father | Henri, Marquis de Belzunce | ||||
| Mother | Marie-Thérèse de la Poëze d'Harambure | ||||
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| Laetitia de Belzunce d'Arenberg |
Laetitia d'Arenberg, formerly Lætitia Marie Madelaine Susanne Valentine de Belzunce d'Arenberg, was born on September 2, 1941 in Brummana, Mandate of Lebanon now Lebanon. She is a French Uruguayan businesswoman.
She is a daughter of Henri de Belzunce, Marquis de Belzunce, and Marie-Thérèse de la Poëze d'Harambure, members of the historical French nobility by birth. Her father was an officer in the Moroccan Tirailleurs and died fighting for France at the Battle of Monte Cassino, on May 13, 1944. He belonged to a family of ancient nobility in France, originally from Lower Navarre, who held the seigneurie of Belzunce near Bayonne, where the family was notable since the 12th century, and had received the Honneurs de la Cour at Paris in 1739.
On August 20, 1949 her mother was remarried, to Prince Erik Engelbert, 11th Duke of Arenberg. In 1951, she moved with her family to Uruguay because her family feared expansion of the Korean War to Europe. On 15 February 1956 Laetitia and her brother, Rodrigue, were adopted by her step-father, Prince Erik Engelbert. Although the adoption did not entitle her to use or inherit his family's dynastic titles and styles of prince, duke and Serene Highness, her legal surname became "de Belzunce d'Arenberg", and she became one of the heirs to his personal fortune.
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