Angela von und zu Liechtenstein

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SD Prince Hans-Adam II.
ID Princess Marie

Princess Angela of Liechtenstein , Countess Rietberg , (* 3. February 1958 as Angela Gisela Brown Burke in Bocas del Toro , Panama ) since 2000, the wife of Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein (* 1969). This makes her the first person of African descent to marry into a European ruling family. The marriage was authorized by Prince Hans-Adam II . Like all members of the house, she has the salutation Your Highness and bears the coat of arms of the Princely House.

biography

birth

Ángela Gisela Brown Burke was born in Bocas del Toro as an Afro-Panamanian. Her parents are Javier Francisco Brown and Silvia Maritza Burke. As a child, she moved with her family to New York City , where she attended elementary and secondary school.

education

After graduating from high school in New York City, she studied fashion at the New School for Social Research , which she graduated with the Óscar de la Renta Prize. After working as a stylist for three years, she founded her own company in New York City under the fashion label “A. Brown ". Until September 1999 she was the creative director of the fashion brand "Adrienne Vittadini".

Marriage and family

Ángela Gisela Brown Burke and Prince Maximilian von und zu Liechtenstein met in 1997 at a private party in New York City. In 1999 the Principality of Liechtenstein announced the upcoming wedding. They were married on January 21, 2000 in Vaduz and celebrated their church wedding on January 29 in St. Vincent Ferrer in Manhattan . Like her sister-in-law Princess Tatjana before , she wore the Kinsky diadem of her mother-in-law, Countess Marie Countess Kinsky von Wchinitz and Tettau, during the wedding .

For the first time, a person of African descent married in one of the few still ruling houses in Europe. The ruling prince and husband's father, Hans-Adam II , fully agreed to the connection. While some members of the Princely House expressed their shock and assumed the end of an era through the marriage between two different ethnic groups, others pledged their full support to the Princely Family.

The couple now live in Germany. Prince Maximilian works for an asset management company.

Prince Maximilian and Princess Angela von und zu Liechtenstein together have one descendant, Prince Alfons Constantin Maria von und zu Liechtenstein (born May 18, 2001 in London), currently 6th of the Liechtenstein line of succession .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Genealogical manual of the nobility. Princely houses . tape 124/16 . Starke, Glücksburg 2001, ISBN 3-7980-0824-8 , pp. 52-54 .
  2. ↑ a b c Chantal de Badts de Cugnac, G. Coutant de Saisseval: Le Petit Gotha . Paris 2002, ISBN 2-9507974-3-1 , pp. 632-634, 654-655 .
  3. ^ House law of the Princely House of Liechtenstein of October 26, 1993, Art. 2, Para. 5 . In: Liechtensteinisches Landesgesetzblatt . No. 100 , December 6, 1993 ( online ).
  4. ↑ a b c d e Paulina Paras: Meet the First European Princess of African Descent, Angela of Liechtenstein. February 27, 2018, accessed May 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b Arturo E. Beeche: The Gotha. Still a Continental Royal Family . tape 1 . Eurohistory, East Richmond Heights 2009, ISBN 978-0-9771961-7-3 , pp. 38-50, 244 .
personal data
SURNAME Liechtenstein, Angela from and to
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liechtenstein, Angela Gisela Princess von und zu; Brown Burke, Ángela Gisela (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Liechtenstein princess
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Bocas del Toro