Princess Margaretha is the twin sister of Prince Jean of Luxembourg.[2] She was educated in the Grand Duchy, where she studied at the European School of Luxembourg (ESL), as well as in Belgium (her mother's native land), the United Kingdom and the United States.[4] She speaks Luxembourgish, French, English and German, having spent time in numerous countries as either student or tourist.[4] She has acquired a doctorate in the social sciences.[5]
Princess Margaretha is the patron of Dyslexia International.[6] She is also the Patroness of the Princess Margaretha Luxembourgeois Girl Guides of Leudelange and of the Crèche de Luxembourg.[7][4] She travels frequently between her home in Liechtenstein, her native Luxembourg, Brussels, where she attends conferences and meetings related to the EU-NGO in which she remains actively involved.[8] Other travel includes visits abroad with her husband, such as their 2011 visit to the University of Dallas, where the couple was hosted and interviewed on campus.[8]
Her main recreational interests and sport activities include riding, skiing, tennis, hunting, reading and modern and classical music.[4] Her reading emphasizes historical biographies and spiritual works.[8]
In 2011 Grand Duke Henri decreed that his female descendants would henceforth enjoy the right of succession to the throne without regard to gender, in accordance with absolute primogeniture.[9] Other princesses of the dynasty, descended from prior sovereigns, may still inherit the throne in the event of extinction of all male dynasts and of all dynasts descended from Grand Duke Henri, and in the order stipulated by the 1907 amendment to the 1783 Nassau Family Pact.[5][9][10]
Margaretha bears the marital titles Princess of Liechtenstein and Countess of Rietberg, as well as those due to her own royal descent, Princess of Luxembourg, Princess of Bourbon-Parma and Princess of Nassau.[2][11] As the issue of a dynastically approved marriage, her children are members of the princely House of Liechtenstein. Her son is in the line of succession to the throne of Liechtenstein, being a fraternal nephew of Prince Hans-Adam II.[2]
Princess Maria-Anunciata Astrid Joséphine Veronica of Liechtenstein (b. Brussels-Uccle, 12 May 1985). Married to Carlo Emanuele Musini (b. 1979, Camden, London, UK) in a civil ceremony on 26 June 2021 in Gubbio, Italy.[12] The religious ceremony took place on 4 September 2021 at the Scots Basilica in Vienna, Austria.[13]
Princess Marie-Astrid Nora Margarita Veronica of Liechtenstein (b. Brussels-Uccle, 26 June 1987). On 25 September 2021 married to Raphael Worthington (b. 05 April 1985, U.S.) at Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta in Orbetello, Italy.[14] The couple has a daughter:
Althaea Georgina Worthington (b. 1 July 2022).[15]
^ abcdefgGenealogisches Handbuch des Adels Band XVIII. Limburg an der Lahn, Germany: C.A. Starke Verlag. 2007. pp. 48, 55, 80, 82. ISBN978-3-7980-0841-0.
^ abcBeeche, Arturo (2009). The Gotha: Still a Continental Royal Family, Volume 1. US: Eurohistory. pp. 39–40, 50.14, 152. ISBN978-0-977-19617-3.
^de Badts de Cugnac, Chantal. Coutant de Saisseval, Guy. Le Petit Gotha. Nouvelle Imprimerie Laballery, Paris 2002, pp. 665-666 (French) ISBN2-9507974-3-1
^de Badts de Cugnac, Chantal. Coutant de Saisseval, Guy. Le Petit Gotha. Nouvelle Imprimerie Laballery, Paris 2002, pp. 632-634, 653, 666-668, 681-682 (French) ISBN2-9507974-3-1
^Honorary distinctions of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, publication of the government of Luxembourg: Princes and Princesses of the Grand-Ducal House of Luxembourg are Grand Crosses of the Order by birth but the decoration is worn only after they reach their majority (18 years old)
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