Monika von Habsburg
| Archduchess Monika | |||||
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| Duchess de Santangelo | |||||
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13 September 1954 Würzburg, Germany |
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| Spouse | Luis de Casanova-Cárdenas y Barón, 5th Duke de Santangelo | ||||
| Issue | Baltasar de Casanova y Habsburgo-Lorena, 23rd Marquès de Elche Gabriel de Casanova y Habsburgo-Lorena Rafael de Casanova y Habsburgo-Lorena Santiago de Casanova y Habsburgo-Lorena |
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| House | Habsburg-Lorraine | ||||
| Father | Otto, Crown Prince of Austria | ||||
| Mother | Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen | ||||
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| Monika Maria Roberta Antonia Raphaela |
Monika von Habsburg (née Monika Maria Roberta Antonia Raphaela Habsburg-Lothringen), Archduchess of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary, Duchess de Santangelo (born 13 September 1954, in Würzburg), the daughter of Otto von Habsburg and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen. She is the twin sister of Michaela von Habsburg.
Born and largely raised during her father's exile from his native land, Austria, where she was not legally allowed to visit or live until 1969. To provide a home near the Austrian border to raise their family, her parents acquired a large villa in Pöcking, Bavaria in 1954, from which their father commuted weekly to his work in Vienna and Innsbrück, as vice-president of the Paneuropean Union, once his banishment was lifted in 1967. During Monika's youth, her father usually spent his time traveling, lecturing, writing and attending political conferences abroad associated with his efforts to encourage Austria's alignment with and leadership in the Euro-movement, with the exception of an annual family holiday during the month of August. Monika was in her late teens when the family acquired a residence in Austria.
Her upbringing was less religious and more political in focus than her father's had been, and reflected his commitment to supra-national but limited government and to respect for moral and historical continuity to the extent these could remain consistent with the evolution of pan-Europeanism. Having been the object of worker syndicate support (the Christlich Soziale Partei) for his repatriation to Austria before 1938; dodged Hitler's and Goebbels' efforts to appeal to Austria's traditionalist elements through recruitment of him; accepted President Roosevelt's invitation to visit the United States in 1939, whither he returned after the Nazis conquered France, staying until 1944; endured the expulsion from Austria by the Soviet Union after the war; and been kept in exile by a partisan alliances until the mid-60s, Habsburg drew from his experience the conviction that the best hope for a thriving Europe and the fall of the Iron Curtain would be a non-nationalist approach, consistent with the historical arc of his own ancestors as central European emperors for 600 years.
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