Mary von Habsburg
Countess Mary von Habsburg-Lothringen (née Mary Nyanut Ring Machar; born 1 July 1969) is a Sudanese woman who married into the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
Biography
Habsburg was born on 1 July 1969 in Wau, Sudan (present-day South Sudan).
On 28 August 1999 she married Count Ferdinand Leopold Joseph von Habsburg-Lothringen in Nairobi, Kenya. Their marriage was seen as controversial due to her socio-economic class and race. Otto von Habsburg, then head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, gave the couple his blessing. Her husband is a son of Archduke Géza of Austria and a maternal grandson of Frederick Augustus III of Saxony.
She and her husband have four children:
*Luisa Aluel von Habsburg (born 2000)
*László Rum von Habsburg (born 2002)
*Gisela Aluk von Habsburg (born 2004)
*Mátyás Malith von Habsburg (born 2009)
Biography
Habsburg was born on 1 July 1969 in Wau, Sudan (present-day South Sudan).
On 28 August 1999 she married Count Ferdinand Leopold Joseph von Habsburg-Lothringen in Nairobi, Kenya. Their marriage was seen as controversial due to her socio-economic class and race. Otto von Habsburg, then head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, gave the couple his blessing. Her husband is a son of Archduke Géza of Austria and a maternal grandson of Frederick Augustus III of Saxony.
She and her husband have four children:
*Luisa Aluel von Habsburg (born 2000)
*László Rum von Habsburg (born 2002)
*Gisela Aluk von Habsburg (born 2004)
*Mátyás Malith von Habsburg (born 2009)
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