Antonia van Luxemburg


Princess Antonia at the age of 10

Antonia Roberta Sophie Wilhelmina of Luxembourg (9 October 1899 - 31 July 1954) was the fourth daughter of Grand Duchess Willem IV of Luxembourg and Maria Anna of Bragança.

On April 7, 1921, she married the Bavarian crown tutor Rupprecht, who was thirty years older than she had already had a previous marriage. As opponents of the Nazi regime, they were forced to flee to Italy in 1939 and later to Hungary. After the occupation of Hungary, Antonia and her children were deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, although some sources speak of Buchenwald. Later she was transported to Dachau and released almost a month later.

Antonia died in Lenzerheide (Switzerland). Her body was added to the Santa Maria in Domnica, Rome, her heart in the so-called Grace Chapel in the Bavarian pilgrimage center of Altötting.

The couple got six children:



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