Grand Duchess Josephine Charlotte, Princess de Bourbon de Parme, Duchess of Nassau,Princess of Belgium, Countess Palatine of the Rhine, Countess of Sayn, Königstein, Katzenelnbogen and Diez, Burgrave of Hammerstein, Lady of Mahlberg, Wiesbaden, Idstein, Merenberg, Limburg and Eppstein She was born at the Royal Palace of Brussels as the oldest child and only daughter of Leopold III of Belgium and Astrid of Sweden. The young princess spent her childhood at the Stuyvenberg Palace just outside of Brussels with her parents, King Léopold and the legendary Snow Queen Astrid. Her mother, who was born a Princess of Sweden and a direct descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte's first wife Joséphine, was killed in an automobile accident in 1935 at age 29. Her father was a direct descendant of Stéphanie de Beauharnais, cousin of Joséphine's first husband and adopted daughter of Joséphine's second husband. On 9 April 1953 in Luxembourg, the princess married Prince Jean, then Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg. They had five children: Princess Marie-Astrid, who was born on February 17, 1954; Grand Duke Henri, who was born on April 16, 1955; Prince Jean, who was born on May 15, 1957; Princess Margaretha, who was born on May 15, 1957; Prince Guillaume, who was born on May 1, 1963. As Hereditary Grand Duchess first, then, from Jean's accession to the throne on November 12, 1964, until his abdication in 2001, as Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, she carried out the many and varied duties (particularly ...
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