Princess Marie Gabriele of Luxembourg

Princess Marie Gabriele Of Luxembourg

Marie Gabrielle Aldegunde Wilhelmine Louise (born 2 August 1925, Berg Castle), is a Luxembourgian princess, a daughter of Grand Duchess Charlotte and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma. Born as Princess of Luxembourg, Princess of Nassau, Princess of Bourbon-Parma, she married Knud Johan Ludvig, Lensgreve Holstein til Ledreborg (Count of Ledreborg), a Danish Roman Catholic nobleman (2 October 1919 - 25 June 2001) in Berg Castle on 6 November 1951, son of Joseph 6th Lensgreve Holstein til Ledreborg, a relative of Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg and a descendant of Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, and his wife Countess Christina Hamilton, of a Danish branch of Clan Hamilton. They had seven daughters:

  • Lensgrevinde Monica Charlotte Louise Maria Holstein til Ledreborg (b. Ledreborg, 29 July 1952), married on 13 September 2003 Henri de Dompierre de Jonquières (b. 28 May 1950), without issue
  • Lensgrevinde Lydia Adelaide Maria Holstein til Ledreborg (b. Ledreborg, 22 February 1955), married firstly in Ledreborg on 8 August 1980 and divorced in 1999 her cousin, Prince Eric of Bourbon-Parma (b. 28 Aug 1953), and had issue:
    • Princess Antonia Monica Charlotte Marie of Bourbon-Parma (b. Roskilde, 10 June 1981)
    • Princess Marie Gabrielle Yolande Camilla Philippine of Bourbon-Parma (b. Paris, 23 December 1982)
    • Princess Alexia Thérèse Sybille Erica Marie of Bourbon-Parma (b. Palm Beach, Florida, 07 March 1985)
    • Prince Michel Knud John Joseph Marie of Bourbon-Parma (b. Roskilde, 12 February 1989)
    • Prince Henri Luitpold Antoine Victor Marie Joseph of Bourbon-Parma (b. Roskilde, 14 October 1991)
Married secondly on 31 January 2001 Martin Bergsøe (b. 15 December 1948), without issue.
  • Lensgrevinde Veronica Birgitte Maria Holstein til Ledreborg (b. Ledreborg), 29 January 1956), married in Ledreborg on 18 August 1979 François Bruno de Pottère (b. Carbondale, Pennsylvania, 1 December 1949), and had issue:
    • Charles de Pottère (b. Luxembourg, 22 June 1982)
    • Alexander Gabriel de Pottère (b. Truckee, California, 12 January 1985)
  • Lensgrevinde Silvia Charlotte Maria Holstein til Ledreborg (b. Ledreborg, 1 January 1958), heiress of Ledreborg castle, married in Ledreborg on 4 August 1979 John Munro of Foulis (paternal grandson of Lieutenant colonel Cecil Gascoigne (b. 1877, d. 1929) which makes him a member of the Gascoigne family in terms of patrilineality), (b. 21 June 1959), and had issue:
    • Tatiana Angela Maria Munro (b. Barrio Cabañas, Honduras, 18 May 1983)
    • Alexander Munro (b. Ledreborg, 24 June 1985)
    • Charlotte Tatiana Marie Munro (b. Roskilde, 27 December 1990)
    • Angela Charlotte Marie Munro (b. Roskilde, 27 August 1992)
  • Lensgrevinde Camilla Josephine Marie Holstein til Ledreborg (Ledreborg, 26 February 1959 – 4 July 2010), married in Ledreborg on 11 January 1986 and divorced in 1995 Eric Rudolf Baron Bertouch-Lehn til Højbygaard-Lungholm (b. Nykøbing Falster, 15 November 1956), and had issue:
    • Baron Nicolas Erik Carl Poul Johan Dmitri Bertouch-Lehn til Højbygaard-Lungholm (b. Copenhagen, 14 June 1986)
    • Baron Philip Eric Alexander Knud Bertouch-Lehn til Højbygaard-Lungholm (b. Nykøbing Falster, 21 March 1989)
  • Lensgrevinde Tatiana Alix Marie Holstein til Ledreborg (b. Ledreborg, 25 Apr 1961), married in Ledreborg on 14 August 1999 Mark von Riedemann (b. Victoria, British Columbia, 20 October 1964), and had issue:
    • Therese Silvia Maria von Riedemann (b. Königstein, 11 October 2000)
  • Lensgrevinde Antonia Charlotte Jeanette Marie Holstein til Ledreborg (b. Ledreborg, 19 June 1962), a consecrated sister of the Emmanuel community, a new religious community of the Roman Catholic Church.

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