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Archduchess Regina, Crown Princess of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia (6 January 1925 – 3 February 2010; née ''Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen'' (''Regina Helene Elizabeth Margarete Prinzessin von Sachsen-Meiningen'')) was a member of the House of Wettin.〔Enache, Nicolas. ''La Descendance de Marie-Therese de Habsburg''. ICC, Paris, 1996. pp. 43, 49, 173, 373. French.〕〔 Her marital and birth titles were not recognized in the Austrian Republic, however, in Germany, where she was born and resided most of her life, former hereditary titles are legally incorporated in the surname.〕 ==Life== She was born in Würzburg, the youngest of four children born to the marriage of Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen and Countess Klara Maria von Korff ''genannt'' Schmissing-Kerssenbrock. Regina was the only one of her siblings to have children: of her two older brothers, Anton Ulrich died aged twenty, killed in action during World War II, and Frederick Alfred became a Carthusian monk who renounced his succession rights. Regina's only sister, Marie Elisabeth, died aged three months in 1923, before Regina's birth. Regina was a second cousin of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and a great great-granddaughter of Princess Feodora of Leiningen, half-sister of Queen Victoria.〔 Although the Saxe-Meiningen dynasty was Protestant, Regina was raised in the Roman Catholic faith of her mother. Regina grew up in the Veste Heldburg which overlooks the Heldburger Land in south Thuringia. Her father, a judge in Meiningen and Hildburghausen, died a captive at the Soviet POW camp at Tschernpowetz on her 21st birthday in 1946. Her mother had fled with Regina to West Germany. There, while working at a ''Caritas'' home for Hungarian refugees, Regina met her future husband. On 10 May 1951 Regina married Otto von Habsburg, eldest son of Emperor Charles I of Austria and former crown prince, in the Church of the Cordeliers in Nancy, France (former capital of her husband's paternal ancestors, with the blessing of Pope Pius XII. After her marriage she used the names ''Regina, Crown Princess of Austria'' or ''Regina von Habsburg''. From 10 May 1954 until her death Regina and Otto lived together at his official residence in the ''Villa Austria'', also called the ''Kaiservilla'', in Pöcking near Lake Starnberg. Regina held several chivalric orders, including Dame and Supreme Protectress of the Order of the Starry Cross, Grand Mistress of the Order of Saint Elizabeth, Dame Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Order of Malta〔 On 2 December 2005 she suffered a brain injury and was taken to a hospital in Nancy. Nevertheless, by 22 February 2006 she had recovered sufficiently to participate in the transfer of the remains of her mother and her brother, Anton Ulrich, to the vault of the Veste Heldburg in the churchyard of Heldburg. The transfer of the remains of her father thither from Tschernpowetz took place in the spring of 2007. Regina died in Pöcking on 3 February 2010, aged 85, and was entombed at Veste Heldburg on 10 February.〔''Main Post'', February 8, 2010〕 Her remains, except for her heart, were moved to Mariazell and then to the ''Kaisergruft'' in Vienna at the time of her husband's funeral on 16 July 2011. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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