Princess Stéphanie Clotilde Louise Herminie Marie Charlotte of Belgium (21 May 1864 – 23 August 1945) was a Belgian princess who became Crown Princess of Austria through marriage to Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Princess Stéphanie was the second daughter of King Leopold II of Belgium and Marie Henriette of Austria. She married in Vienna on 10 May 1881 Crown Prince Rudolf, son and heir of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. They had one child, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie. Stéphanie's marriage quickly became fragile. Rudolf, depressed and disappointed by politics, had multiple extramarital affairs, and contracted a venereal disease that he transmitted to his wife, rendering her unable to conceive again. In 1889, Rudolf and his mistress Mary Vetsera were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide pact at the imperial hunting lodge at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods.
In 1900, Stéphanie married again, to Count Elemér Lónyay de Nagy-Lónya et Vásáros-Namény, a Hungarian nobleman of lower rank; for this, she was excluded from the House of Habsburg. However, this second union was happy. After the death of her father in 1909, Stéphanie joined her older sister Louise to claim from the Belgian courts the share of the inheritance of which they both felt they had been stripped.
Until World War II, Count and Countess Lónyay (elevated to the princely rank in 1917) peacefully spent their lives at Rusovce Mansion in Slovakia. In 1935, Stéphanie published her memoirs, entitled Je devais être impératrice ("I Was Going To Be Empress"). In 1944, she disinherited her daughter, who had divorced to live with a socialist deputy and whom she had not seen since 1925. The arrival of the Red Army in April 1945, at the end of the war, forced Stéphanie and her husband to leave their residence and take refuge in the Pannonhalma Archabbey in Hungary. Stéphanie died of a stroke in the abbey later the same year.
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Date: 22 May 1864
WASHINGTON, Saturday, May 21.
Date: 22 May 1864
San Francisco Letter, April 23
Date: 21 May 1864
on Freedom of the Press and Bogus Proclamation Seizures; Evening Post on the Freedom of the Press
Date: 22 May 1864
Correspondence of the Newark Advertiser
On the 8th the rebels sent down a flag of truce conveying a matter of $600 in greenbacks to the crew of the recaptured Bombshell. We learned from the officers that the Captain of the ram was wounded and that as soon as the ram was repaired a little they would give us another trial.
Date: 21 May 1864
GEN. BLAIR'S CASE
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Mr. Dodd Sustained
Date: 21 May 1864
The steamship Peruvian, from Liverpool, at 3 P.M. of the 12th, and Londonderry, l3th inst., for Quebec, was intercepted at Port au Basque, at 7 o'clock this evening, and the following summary of her news obtained.
Date: 22 May 1864
THE SHOOTING OF PATRICK McGEE. An inquest was held yesterday by Coroner WILDEY, at the New-York Hospital, on the body of PATRICK McGEE, who was shot and fatally wounded on the 2d inst., near...
Date: 22 May 1864
Paris Letter, May 6
Date: 22 May 1864
The following additional by steamship Peruvianfailed to come to hand last night:
Date: 22 May 1864
From the Richmond Enquirer, May 18
We must refer to the letter of our correspondent for the latest items from Gen. LEE's army. It will be seen that nothing of serious importance has transpired since the great battle of Thursday last, except, perhaps, the movement of the enemy upon Massaponax Church, already announced by Gen. LEE, and the meaning of which will soon be developed. Gen. Lee has issued a most encouraging series of congratulatory orders to his army, which will be found in the letters alluded to.