Le 14 mai 1922, la princesse de Festetics von Tolna décÚde à Budapest, à l'ùge de soixante et onze ans. La princesse est la cousine germaine de la reine Carola de Saxe, de la reine Stéphanie de Portugal, du roi Carol Ier de Roumanie et de la princesse Marie, comtesse de Flandre. Son Altesse Sérénissime est également la cousine au troisiÚme degré de l'empereur Napoléon III des Français.
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| Guillaume, 11e duc de Hamilton |
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| Princesse Marie Amélie de Bade |
La princesse hongroise avait commencĂ© sa vie sous le nom de Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton : elle Ă©tait nĂ©e au palais de Hamilton, dans le Lanarkshire, en Ăcosse, le 11 dĂ©cembre 1850. Elle Ă©tait la fille de William Hamilton, 11e duc de Hamilton (1811-1863), et de la princesse Marie-AmĂ©lie de Bade (1817-1888), qui s'Ă©taient mariĂ©s en 1843. Mary Victoria succĂ©dait Ă deux frĂšres : William Douglas-Hamilton, futur 12e duc de Hamilton (1845-1895), et Charles Douglas-Hamilton, 7e comte de Selkirk (1847-1886). Les grands-parents paternels de Mary Ă©taient Alexander Hamilton, 10e duc de Hamilton (1767-1852), et Susan Euphemia Beckford (1786-1859) ; ses grands-parents maternels Ă©taient le grand-duc Charles de Bade (1786-1818) et StĂ©phanie de Beauharnais (1789-1860), cousine germaine d'EugĂšne de Beauharnais et d'Hortense de Beauharnais, beaux-enfants de l'empereur NapolĂ©on Ier des Français.
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| Le rapport du mariage du Prince Albert de Monaco et de Lady Mary Douglas-Hamilton
Photographie (c) The Standard |
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| Le Prince HĂ©ritier et la Princesse de Monaco peu aprĂšs leur mariage |
Le 21 septembre 1869, Lady Mary Douglas-Hamilton épousa le prince héritier Albert de Monaco (1848-1922) au chùteau de Marchais, résidence des Grimaldi en France. Le couple s'était rencontré pour la premiÚre fois un mois auparavant, en août 1869, lors d'un bal organisé par l'empereur Napoléon III et l'impératrice Eugénie à Paris. Une union strictement arrangée, le couple avait été uni par la grand-mÚre du marié, Marie Caroline Gibert de Lametz (1793-1879), ancienne actrice française et épouse du prince Florestan Ier de Monaco (1785-1856) ainsi que mÚre du prince Charles III de Monaco (1818-1889), pÚre du prince Albert.
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| La princesse héritiÚre Mary et son fils le prince Louis de Monaco |
Albert and Mary of Monaco produced their only child, a son and heir, the year after their marriage. Prince Louis of Monaco was born on 12 July 1870 at Baden, in the grand duchy from which his maternal grandmother hailed. The marital bonds between Albert and Mary were tenuous, and did not last. The Scottish-born princess was not fond of the Mediterranean climate or the Monegasque court, and Albert had a tendency to be cold and distant: this resulted in Mary leaving Monte Carlo and the principality permanently not long after her son was born. The union of the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Monaco was annulled in 1880 following a long separation.
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| Prince TaszilĂł Festetics von Tolna |
After the annulment was granted, Mary swiftly remarried to Hungarian nobleman Count Tasziló Festetics von Tolna (1850-1933). Prince Louis of Monaco was raised in Baden by his maternal grandmother and did not see his father until he was eleven years-old. At that point in time, Louis returned to Monaco to be trained for his future royal duties. The future Louis II of Monaco was joined by four half-siblings: Måria Matild (1881-1953), György (1882-1941), Alexandra Olga (1884-1963), and Karola (1888-1951). Tasziló was created Prince Festetics von Tolna in 1911 by Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary.
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| Prince György Festetics von Tolna (1882-1941) |
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| Princess Alexandra “Alex” Festetics von Tolna (1884-1963) |
On 26 June 1922, Prince Albert I of Monaco, the ex-husband of the late Princess of Festetics von Tolna, died one month after his first wife. Albert was succeeded by the couple’s only child as Prince Louis II of Monaco. Louis II reigned until 1949, when he passed away at Monte Carlo at the age of seventy-eight on 9 May 1949. Prince Louis was succeeded by his only grandson, Prince Rainier III (1923-2005), who was the child of Louis’ legitimised daughter Princess Charlotte (1898-1977) and her former husband Count Pierre de Polignac (1895-1964).
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| Prince Albert I of Monaco in the 1910s |
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| Prince Louis II of Monaco |
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| Princess Charlotte of Monaco, Duchess of Valentinois |
Through her first marriage, Lady Mary Hamilton-Douglas is the great-great-grandmother of Prince Albert II of Monaco (b.1958). Through her second marriage, Mary is the great-grandmother of fashion designer Prince Egon of FĂŒrstenberg, socialite and actress Princess Ira of FĂŒrstenberg and the Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Karel Schwarzenberg. Mary’s second marriage was a happy one and lasted over forty years. Mary is buried beside her second husband TaszilĂł at the mausoleum of Festetics Palace.
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| Festetics Palace |
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| Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton |
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