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Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg

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Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg (born Sibilla Sandra Weiller y Torlonia on 12 June 1968) is the wife of Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg.

Family[edit]

Her father was Paul-Annik Weiller (1933–1998), the first son of Paul-Louis Weiller of the Javal family and Aliki Diplarakos. Paul-Louis Weiller, an aviator, engineer, industrialist and famous patron of the arts. Shot down no less than five times by Germans during World War I, he was one of the youngest recipients of the Legion d'Honneur and later made a fortune in the civil aviation, oil and international banking industries. He was secondly married to Miss Europe 1930, Aliki Diplarakou. Aliki, Sibilla's paternal grandmother, later went on to marry Sir Jack Russell a British diplomat and ambassador to Ethiopia, Brazil and Spain.

Her mother is an Italian noblewoman, Donna Olimpia Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi (born 1943), daughter of Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi and Infanta Beatriz of Spain.

Sibilla has three surviving sisters: Aliki Béatrice Victoria (1967), married to André Aranha Correia do Lago; Cosima Marie Elisabeth Edmée (1984); and Domitilla Louise Marie (1985). A younger sister Laura Daphne Lavinia (1974-1980) and brother, Paul Alexandre (1970-1970) died in childhood. The family lived in Geneva.

Princess Sibilla is a second cousin of the current King Felipe VI of Spain; her grandmother was Infanta Beatriz of Spain, the aunt of King Juan Carlos I of Spain. She also is a second cousin of the actress Brooke Shields; they share great-grandparents. Sibilla's grandfather, Prince Alessandro was the brother of Brooke Shields' grandmother Marina Torlonia.

Marriage[edit]

On September 8 that same year, she civilly married Prince Guillaume, the youngest child of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg and Princess Josephine-Charlotte of Belgium. A civil wedding was held on September 8, 1994, in Sélestat, France, followed by a religious ceremony on September 24, 1994, at the Versailles Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Louis de Versailles), receiving the title Princess of Luxembourg. The bride wore a Valentino wedding gown.

Guillaume and Sibilla have four children, who carry the title Prince(ss) of Nassau with the style Royal Highness:

  • Prince Paul Louis Jean Marie Guillaume of Nassau (born at Grand Duchess Charlotte Maternity Hospital in Luxembourg, 4 March 1998). His godfather is his cousin, Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
  • Prince Léopold Guillaume Marie Joseph of Nassau (born at Grand Duchess Charlotte Maternity Hospital in Luxembourg, 2 May 2000). His godparents are Archduke Martin of Austria and Elvire Paste de Rochefort.
  • Princess Charlotte Wilhelmine Maria da Gloria of Nassau (born at Grand Duchess Charlotte Maternity Hospital in Luxembourg, 2 May 2000). Her godparents are Philippe Jaczynski and Donna Pilar Méndez de Vigo y Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg.
  • Prince Jean André Guillaume Marie Gabriel Marc d'Aviano of Nassau (born at Grand Duchess Charlotte Maternity Hospital in Luxemborg, 13 July 2004). His godparents are André Aranha Correia do Lago (mother's brother-in-law) and Countess Gabriella von Waldburg-Zeil.

Sibilla and Guillaume are related to each other distantly in several different ways, but the closest is as fifth cousins once removed in descent from Charles IV of Spain, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg. Their sons are in the line of succession to the throne of Luxembourg.

Education and career[edit]

Princess Sibilla was educated at the Institut Florimont, Geneva, graduating with a baccalaureate in economics with honours. She then studied at the École du Louvre in Paris, graduating with a diploma in Art History in 1991. She worked at the Musée des Monuments Français.

Princess Sibilla then studied contemporary art in London, and worked for different galleries, before opening her own gallery in 1993.

Titles, styles and honor and House and Religion[edit]

House: Luxembourg-Nassau (by marriage), Bourbon-Parma (agnatic)

Religion: Catholicism

Titles and styles

  • 12 June 1968 - 24 September 1994: Miss Sibilla Sandra Weiller y Torlonia
  • 24 September 1994 – present: Her Royal Highness Princess Sibilla Sandra Weiller of Luxembourg, Princess of Nassau, Princess of Bourbon-Parma

Honor[edit]

References[edit]


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