Marriage : 10 May 1951 - Archduke Otto of Austria (Otto von Habsburg), the former Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen. Born on 20 November 1912, he was the eldest son of Charles I and IV, the last Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, and his wife, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, whilst his bride Regina was a great great-granddaughter of Princess Feodora of Leiningen, half-sister of Queen Victoria. She was born on 6 January 1925, as the youngest of four children of Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen and Countess Klara Maria von Korff genannt Schmissing-Kerssenbrock. After her marriage she used the names Regina, Crown Princess of Austria or Regina von Habsburg. From 10 May 1954 until her death on 3 February 2010, Regina and Otto lived at his official residence in the Villa Austria, also called the Kaiservilla, in Pöcking near Lake Starnberg. Otto died on 4 July 2011.
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