Early Life
She was of partial Jewish descent, born in Vienna, Austria, the daughter of Ludmilla Kuranda and lawyer Johann Sebastian Richter, and was named after Crown Princess Stephanie of Austria-Hungary. In 1906, Stephanie Richter was enrolled in the ballet school of the Vienna Court Opera. As she developed into a beautiful young lady, her charm and sophistication saw her become a part of Vienna's high society.
In her early twenties, she began an affair with the married Archduke Franz Salvator, Prince of Tuscany, son-in-law of Emperor Franz Joseph I through his marriage to Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria. Pregnant with Franz Salvator's child, on 12 May 1914 the delicate matter was covered up through a marriage in London, England to a German prince of the Hohenlohe family, Friedrich Franz von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, (15 February 1879 in Budapest - 24 May 1958 in Curitiba, Brazil). On 5 December 1914, Princess Stephanie's son Franz Josef was born in Vienna. His full name was Franz Josef Rudolf Hans Weriand Max Stefan Anton von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (he bore the surname of his mother's husband, although the latter was not his father).
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