Stéphanie of Luxembourg

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Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie
of Luxembourg (2013)

Stéphanie von Nassau, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Hereditary Princess of Nassau and Princess of Bourbon-Parma (born February 18, 1984 as Countess Stéphanie Marie Claudine Christine de Lannoy in Ronse in Belgium ) is the wife of the Luxembourg Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume and thus likely the future Grand Duchess of Luxembourg with the salutation Royal Highness .

family

Stéphanie von Luxemburg comes from the Flemish noble family Lannoy (French: Maison de Lannoy ), whose most famous representative was the general Charles de Lannoy . She is the youngest of eight children of the Belgian Count Philippe de Lannoy (1922-2019) and his wife Alix, née della Faille de Leverghem (1941-2012). Her paternal grandparents were Count Paul de Lannoy (1898–1980) and Princess Béatrice de Ligne (1898–1982); the maternal grandparents were Baron Harold della Faille de Leverghem (1908-1994) and Madeleine de Brouchoven de Bergeyck (1912-1996). Her family on her father's side comes from the Flemish knighthood . She grew up on the family home in Anvaing in the Belgian province of Hainaut .

Luxembourg Grand Ducal Family
Greater coat of arms of the grand-duke of Luxembourg (since 2000) .svg

HRH Grand Duke Henri
HRH Maria Teresa

  • IKKH Princess Marie-Astrid
  • HRH Prince Jean
    HRH Princess Diane
  • HRH Princess Margaretha
  • HRH Prince Guillaume
    HRH Princess Sibilla
  • HRH Princess Marie-Gabrielle
  • HRH Princess Joan

Shortly before her marriage to Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume, she was granted Luxembourg citizenship by means of an emergency act by the Luxembourg Parliament , because marriage in Luxembourg does not automatically lead to the acquisition of Luxembourg nationality. The controversial Lex de Lannoy consists of a single sentence: “The nationality is granted to Countess Stéphanie de Lannoy.” In an interview, she emphasized that, as the future Grand Duchess, she will not make use of the option of dual citizenship, which means that Belgian will lose her.

The engagement to the Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume of Luxembourg was announced on April 26, 2012 in Luxembourg, the ceremony took place on April 27, 2012 in Berg Castle. The civil wedding took place on October 19 in Luxembourg, the church wedding followed on October 20, 2012 in the Cathedral of Our Lady by Archbishop Jean-Claude Hollerich . In December 2019 it was announced that the Hereditary Grand Ducal couple was expecting their first child. Her son Prince Charles Jean Philippe Joseph Marie Guillaume was born on May 10, 2020.

Since Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz has been Queen of the Belgians since her husband's accession to the throne , Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie, next to Hereditary Princess Sophie of Liechtenstein , born Duchess in Bavaria, is one of only two European heir to the throne wives who come from a noble house .

  • Coat of arms of the Counts Lannoy

  • Château d ' Anvaing , family seat of the Counts Lannoy

  • Stéphanie of Luxembourg after the civil wedding

  • Stéphanie and Guillaume of Luxembourg

education and profession

She first attended the Dutch-speaking Sancta Maria primary school in Ronse. She then did two years of her secondary studies at the Collège Sainte-Odile in Northern France, which she then completed in Brussels at the Institut de la Vierge Fidèle , where she also received her final diploma in 2002, roughly equivalent to the Abitur.

At 18, she spent a year in Moscow , the Russian language and literature study.

She then studied German at the Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve . She completed a master’s degree in German philology in Berlin with a thesis on the influence of German romanticism on Russian romanticism.

She extended her stay in Berlin with an internship at the Agence Wallonne à l'Exportation at the Belgian embassy . After returning to Belgium from Germany, she worked for an investment company.

In addition to her mother tongue, French and Dutch , she speaks fluent German , English and Russian . In addition, she learned Luxembourgish .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Note sur la famille de Lannoy (PDF; 16 kB) on the website of the Grand Ducal Court (French)
  2. ^ Council of State: Green light for naturalization of Comtesse Stéphanie ; ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. wort.lu. Retrieved October 2, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wort.lu
  3. ↑ L'essentiel online , October 9, 2012, accessed October 23, 2012
  4. ↑ Good luck and good blessings , Focus online on September 24, 2012, accessed on October 23, 2012
  5. ^ L'essentiel online , October 8, 2012, accessed October 23
  6. ↑ Luxemburg's heir to the throne said "Jo" ( memento of October 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Das Erste.de on October 22, 2012
  7. ↑ Wedding on October 20 on Tageblatt.lu from May 3, 2012
  8. ↑ Stéphanie von Luxemburg - she is expecting her first child in Gala.de on December 6, 2019
  9. ↑ Joy of offspring in Luxembourg - Stéphanie is pregnant! in Abendzeitung-muenchen.de from December 6, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019
  10. ^ Royal Central
  11. ↑ Official biography (German, PDF; 142 kB) on the website of the Grand Ducal Court of Luxembourg (accessed on October 20, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Stéphanie of Luxembourg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stéphanie von Nassau, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Hereditary Princess of Nassau and Princess of Bourbon-Parma (full name); De Lannoy, Stéphanie Marie Claudine Christine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg nobles
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Ronse