Maria Teresa Mestre
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| Grand Duchess consort of Luxembourg | |
| Tenure | 7 October 2000 – present |
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22 March 1956 Marianao, Havana, Cuba |
| Spouse | Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (m. 1981) |
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Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg Prince Félix Prince Louis Princess Alexandra Prince Sébastien |
| Father | José Antonio Mestre y Álvarez |
| Mother | María Teresa Batista y Falla de Mestre |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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HRH The Grand Duke
HRH The Dowager Countess of Holstein-Ledreborg
HRH The Dowager Princess of Ligne Extended grand-ducal family
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Styles of Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg |
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| Reference style | Her Royal Highness |
| Spoken style | Your Royal Highness |
| Alternative style | Ma'am |
HRH The Grand Duke
HRH The Grand Duchess
HRH The Dowager Countess of Holstein-Ledreborg
Descendants of Duke William:
Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (born María Teresa Mestre y Batista; on 22 March 1956), is the spouse of Grand Duke Henri.
Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, was born in 22 March 1956 in Marianao, Havana, Cuba, to José Antonio Mestre y Álvarez (Vedado, Havana, 1926 - 1993) and wife (m. Vedado, Havana, 1951) María Teresa Batista y Falla de Mestre (Vedado, Havana, 1928–1988), both from bourgeois families of Spanish descent.
The Mestre family (descended in the female line from Ferdinand I of León and Castile) have as their patriarch Arnau Mestre, born Landorthe, who married in 1625 in San Pedro de Ribas. One of his descendants, Francisco Mestre y Roig Benaprés (born in 1787 in Sitges) travelled to Cuba in 1830 where he married Josefa Dominguez y Morales (born in 1764, daughter of Andres Domínguez Bencomo and Manuela Morales Ponce de León), being the founder of the Mestre family in Cuba. The Grand Duchess also descends through her father from the Spanish Espinosa de los Monteros noble family.
Her maternal grandparents were Don Agustín Batista y González de Mendoza (Batista family member with possessions in the town of Puerto de Santa María del Príncipe and no family relationship with Fulgencio Batista), Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Trust Company of Cuba and Doña María Teresa Falla Bonet, daughter of the Spanish tycoon Laureano Falla Gutierrez, millionaire businessman whose fortune was made up of several sugar mills, two banks (one of which is "The Trust Company of Cuba") and other goods which were confiscated by the government of the Revolution.
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