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| Margaret of Tyrol |
(1318-1369)
Countess of Tyrol
1335-1363
Her lover was:
1) Petermann.
"One of the most famous of the old-time inmates of the Abbey was Petermann, once a lover of the licentious Margaret of Tyrol. 'Pocket-Mouthed Meg.' After her abdication in 1367, Petermann entered the monastery to expiate the sins and follies of his youth. He endowed the Abbey with an estate, but he showed his business capacity by having an agreement drawn up with the Abbot setting forth the terms upon which he joined the brotherhood. . . ." (Tyrol and Its People)
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| Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este Electress of Bavaria @Wikipedia |
Electress of Bavaria
(1776-1848)
Daughter of Archduke Ferdinand von Osterreich-Este, Governor-General of Lombardy & Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d'Este
Wife of:
2. Ludwig von Arco
Her lovers were:
1. Italian guardsman
2. Franz Eck, court musician
3. Count Maximilian von Montgelas
4. Count Karl von Arco, chamberlain
5. Count Karl von Rechenberg, Augsburg canon and philanderer.
6. Maximilian I von Bayern
1. Italian guardsman
2. Franz Eck, court musician
3. Count Maximilian von Montgelas
4. Count Karl von Arco, chamberlain
5. Count Karl von Rechenberg, Augsburg canon and philanderer.
6. Maximilian I von Bayern
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| Louise of Austria Crown Princess of Saxony @Wikipedia |
(1870-1947)
Crown Princess of Saxony.
Daughter of Ferdinando IV di Toscana & Alice de Bourbon-Parma.
Wife of:
1. Friedrich August III von Sachsen (1865-1932), mar 1891, div 1904
2. Enrico Toselli, mar 1907, div 1912
Physical traits & personal qualities.
" . . . She boasted Hapsburg blood, dark blond hair, and sparkling brown eyes; a slender yet shapely figure; and a bubbly personality. Though no great beauty, the princess was wooed by numerous princes. Of all her suitors, she preferred the handsome twenty-six-year-old Prince Frederick Augustus of Saxony, tall, blond and blue-eyed." (Sex with the Queen: 259)
Princess' love life.
"By the late 1890s her bitterness at palace life and her disappointment at her husband's weakness had resulted in flirtation with other men, which she called 'harmless friendships' in her memoirs. Events proved, however, that they were far more than that." (Sex with the Queen: 260)
"Third, Dresden's court provided Europe with its greatest royal scandal of the early twentieth century. In the second week of December 1902, Saxony's young crown prince, Friedrich August, awoke to discover that his Tuscan wife, Austrian Archduchess Luise von Tuscana, had departed for Salzburg to meet her Belgian lover, Andre ('Richard') Giron. The latter had been tutor to the royal couple's five children (with a sixth, of unknown paternity, on the way). According to Luise, her flight was prompted by King Georg's threat to have her interned in Sonnenstein Mental Asylum for life. For six months preceding the Reichstag election of 1903, all of Saxony and much of Germany botched every effort at damage control. Luise's 'inside story' reverberated in reports to the German foreign office, the Berlin police presidium, and foreign governments. She made no secret of her archenemy, besides her father-in-law, was Georg von Metzsch, whom she characterized as both a bully (toward her) and a weakling (in the face of the Kartell). Luise quoted Metzsch as having said, 'I will ruin this woman, but I will ruin her slowly'. King Georg suffered criticism no less harsh. Saxon Protestants entertained suspicions that a Jesuit intrigue lay behind the princess's 'removal' from Dresden: she was too liberal and too popular. Crown Prince Friedrich August emerged from the scandal relatively unscathed. But according to Luise's American editor, this 'cuckolded pumpkin' displayed the weakness of character for which he soon became known. Luise later recalled her husband's anti-socialist, anti-English, and antisemitic prejudices at the time of their first child's birth in 1893." (Red Saxony: Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918: 321)
Her lover was:
Andre Giron.
Lover in 1901?-1907?
"A newspaper representative who obtained a letter of introduction to M. Giron found the tutor a tall, slim man, dark, and of youthful appearance...." (Paperspast)
Flight of the crown princess.
"The Petit Bleu publishes an interview which one of its representatives ha with M. Andre Giron at Geneva. The lover of the Crown Princess of Saxony states that he had never seen her Royal Highness before he became tutor to her children. The relations between him and the Princess were discovered by Baroness de Fretich, Grand Mistress of the Court, who induced him to leave. Thereupon the Princess decided to go with him. On December 12 she left by the spiral staircase. They hid themselves in the station waiting-room at Salzburg, and eventually left for Innsbruck, whence they went to Zurich, where M. Giron joined them." (Papers Past)
"The most talked about scandal in Saxony was the Crown Princess Louise's (the wife of Friedrich August) flight in December 1902 with Andre Giron, who had been the French tutor to her three children. When she and Friedrich August married, he was the Crown Prince. She was very popular in Saxony, as she did not follow the etiquette at the court, which resulted in arguments with her father-in-law. On December 9, 1902, pregnant with her youngest daughter, she left Saxony with Giron but without her children. She was divorced 11 February 1903. Her last child with Friedrich August was sent to Dresden to live at the court. Louise's Italian father awarded her the title of Countess of Montignoso. The relationship with Giron did not last and on 25 September 1907, she married the musician Enrico Toselli in London. They were divorced five years later. She died in poverty in Brussels in 1947." (Handbook of Imperial Germany: 78)
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