Archduchess Yolande of Austria

Yolande
Archduchess of Austria
Born	(1923-05-06) 6 May 1923 (age 93) Madrid, Spain
Spouse	Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria(m.1950)
Issue	Archduke Rudolf Archduchess Alexandra Archduke Carl Christian Archduchess Maria Constanza
Full name French: Princesse Yolande Marie Jeanne Charlotte de Ligne
House	House of Ligne
Father	Eugène, 11th Prince de Ligne
Mother	Philippine de Noailles
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Full name
French: Princesse Yolande Marie Jeanne Charlotte de Ligne

Princely Family of Ligne
HH The Prince HRH The Princess HH The Hereditary Prince HH Princess Alix, Countess of Dampierre HRH The Dowager Princess HH Prince Wauthier HH Princess Regine HH Prince Philippe HH Princess Laetitia HH Prince Jean Charles HH Princess Aliénor HH Princess Melanie Yolande HH Princess Élisabeth Éléonore, Baroness Gillès de Pelichy HH Princess Anne Marie, Mrs. Mortgat HRH Princess Christine of Orléans-Braganza HH Princess Sophie, Countess of Nicolay HH Prince Antoine HH Princess Jacqueline HH Prince Louis HH Princess Marie HH Princess Florence Extended family HI&RH Archduchess Yolande of Austria HH Princess Maria HH Princess Hedwige Marie of Merode HH Prince Charles Antoine HH Princess Alyette HH Prince Edouard Lamoral HH Princess Isabella HH Princess Althea HH Princess Athénaïs HH Prince Charles Joseph HH Princess Ran HH Prince Amadeo Joseph HH Princess Marie, Mrs. Guzmán y Bustos HH Princess Helene, Mrs. Whitwell

HRH The Dowager Princess

HI&RH Archduchess Yolande of Austria

HH Princess Maria

Archduchess Yolande of Austria (née Princesse Yolande Marie Jeanne Charlotte de Ligne; born 6 May 1923) is the widow of Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria.

Yolande was born in Madrid as the second daughter of Eugène, 11th Prince de Ligne and his wife Philippine de Noailles (1898-1991). Her father was the Belgian ambassador to India from 1947 to 1951, ambassador to Spain from 1951 to 1958, and the head of one of Belgium's historically most influential noble families. He died in 1960.

Each of Yolande's two brothers became the Prince de Ligne (Baudouin, 12th Prince de Ligne and Antoine, 13th Prince de Ligne). Antoine is the father of Michel, 14th Prince de Ligne and Princess Christine, wife of Prince Antônio of Orléans-Braganza (second in-line to the titular Brazilian throne). Antoine's youngest daughter is named after Yolande.

On 17 January 1950 at the Château de Beloeil, Belgium (the family seat of the House of Ligne), Yolande married Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria (1918–2007). The fifth child of Austria's last emperor, Charles I and his wife Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Carl Ludwig and Yolande were childhood sweethearts. Wedding guests included Carl Ludwig's eldest brother Archduke Otto (claimant to the Habsburg throne) as well as members of half a dozen other royal families; representatives of the Belgian royal family did not, however, attend. The couple honeymooned in Florida, eventually settling in New York City, where Carl Ludwig worked for the Rockefeller Foundation.

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