Wedding of Archduke Otto von Habsburg, 1951

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The Wedding of Archduke Otto von Habsburg, Head of the House of Habsburg and son of the last Austrian Emperor Charles I, and Princess Regina of Saxe-Mainingen (wearing Empress Zita’s Diamond Tiara and the Order of the Starry Cross) at the Church of Saint-François-des-Cordeliers in Nancy on this day in 1951. After the ceremony, the newlyweds walked through the streets followed by one of the largest gathering of Austrian Royalists since the First World War. Archduke Otto and Archduchess Regina had seven children and remained happily married until her death in 2010.

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