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Princess Stephanie of Belgium



         


Princess Stephanie of Belgium (May 21, 1864 - August 23, 1945) was the daughter of King Leopold II of Belgium, born at Laeken . Her full name was Stéphanie Clotilde Louise Herminie Marie Charlotte, of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchess of Saxony, Princess of Belgium. She married Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria at age seventeen on May 10, 1881. They had a daughter Elisabeth Marie Henriette, Archduchess of Austria on September 2, 1883. Princess Stephanie married again on March 22, 1900 to Elemér, Prince Lonyai de Nagy-Lónya. She died at the Abbey of Pannonhalma at Györszentmarton, Hungary on August 23, 1945.

Asteroid 220 Stephania was named after her in 1881.

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