Friday, November 18, 2011

Habsburg wedding on Saturday

Archduke Sandor of Austria, eldest son of Archduke Dominic of Austria and his first wife, Engel von Voss, will be married tomorrow (Saturday) in at the Minorten Church in Vienna.  The bride is Herta Margarete Reyländer.  The couple were married in a civil ceremony on December 24, 2010 at Schloss Hunyadi in Maria Enzerdorf, Austria.    Herta was born on February 19, 1961 at Mistelbach, Lower Austria.  She is the daughter of  Josef Rudolf Reyländer and Margaretha Marie Katharina Schweinzer.

This is the second marriage for both the bride and the groom.  Their first marriages were civil marriages only followed by civil divorces.

The wedidng will be followed by a "traditional agape of bread and wine," and a reception at the Palais Hotel.

Archduke Dominic is the younger son of the late Princess Ileana of Romania and Archduke Anton of Austria.

2 comments:

Ron said...

I'm surprised that Archduke Dominic son styles himself as an Archduke. Was Dominic's marriage to Engel von Voss recognized as equal by Archduke Otto?

Marlene Eilers Koenig said...

In 2007, Archduke Karl apparently formalized his father's statement regarding marriage. A marriage was equal as long as the bride was Christian.