Walburga Habsburg, Countess Douglas (born 5 October 1958) is a German-born Swedish lawyer and politician, serving in the Riksdag of Sweden as a member of the Moderate Party (since 2006). She is also the Vice President of the Paneuropean Union and a board member of the Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism.
Born a member of the House of Habsburg, her historical titulature is Archduchess Walburga of Austria, Archduchess of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, with the style Her Imperial and Royal Highness.[1] By marriage, she bears the title Countess Douglas.
Family and children
Born in 1958 in Berg am Starnberger See, Germany, she is the daughter of the late Otto von Habsburg, last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, and of Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen.[1] Her given names are Walburga Maria Franziska Helene Elisabeth.[1] At the time of her birth, her father was stateless, domiciled in Germany on a Spanish diplomatic passport. Walburga was banished from the Republic of Austria from birth and well into adult life, along with her siblings, by the Habsburg Law that had been in effect since 1938, having been (re)imposed by the Nazis. The Austrian Republic was forced to repeal the banishment of Walburga and her family, which was found to violate their human rights, as a precondition for admission to the European Union.
Archduchess Walburga married the Swedish Count Archibald Douglas on 5 December 1992 in Budapest, Hungary.[1] They have a son, Count Moritz Otto Wenzel Douglas (born 30 March 1994). Her husband's family is a prominent noble family in Sweden, descended from the Scots Robert Douglas, Count of Skenninge. The family's comital title, conferred by Queen Christina of Sweden in 1654, is legally recognized in the country.
Professional career
Austrian Imperial Family |
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HI&RH Archduke Karl HI&RH Archduchess Francesca
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Extended family
Descendants of Archduke Robert:
HI&RH The Dowager Archduchess of Austria-Este
Descendants of Archduke Felix:
- HI&RH Archduchess Pilar
- HI&RH Archduke Carl Philipp
HI&RH Archduchess Annie-Claire
- HI&RH Archduke Julian
- HI&RH Archduke Louis-Damian
- HI&RH Archduchess Kinga
- HI&RH Archduchess Bettina
- HI&RH Archduke Felix
- HI&RH Archduchess Sophia
- HI&RH Archduchess Maria Teresa
- HI&RH Archduchess Miriam
- HI&RH Archduke István
HI&RH Archduchess Paola
- HI&RH Archduke Andreas
- HI&RH Archduke Pál
- HI&RH Archduchess Marguerite
- HI&RH Archduchess Viridis
Descendants of Archduke Carl Ludwig:
HI&RH Archduchess Yolande
- HI&RH Archduke Rudolf
HI&RH Archduchess Marie Hélène
- HI&RH Archduke Carl Christian
HI&RH Archduchess Estelle
- HI&RH Archduchess Zita
- HI&RH Archduchess Anežka
- HI&RH Archduchess Anna
- HI&RH Archduchess Paola
- HI&RH Archduchess Priscilla
- HI&RH Archduke Johannes
- HI&RH Archduke Thomas
- HI&RH Archduchess Marie
- HI&RH Archduke Franz-Ludwig
- HI&RH Archduke Michael
- HI&RH Archduke Joseph
- HI&RH Archduchess Alexandra
- HI&RH Archduke Carl Christian
HI&RH Archduchess Marie Astrid
- HI&RH Archduchess Marie Christine
- HI&RH Archduke Imre
HI&RH Archduchess Kathleen
- HI&RH Archduchess Maria Stella
- HI&RH Archduke Christoph
HI&RH Archduchess Adélaide
- HI&RH Archduchess Katarina
- HI&RH Archduke Alexander
- HI&RH Archduchess Gabriella
- HI&RH Archduchess Maria Constanza
Descendants of Archduke Rudolf:
HI&RH Archduchess Anna Gabriele
- HI&RH Archduchess Maria Anna
- HI&RH Archduke Karl Peter
HI&RH Archduchess Alexandra
- HI&RH Archduchess Antonia
- HI&RH Archduke Lorenz
- HI&RH Archduke Simeon
HI&RH Archduchess María
- HI&RH Archduke Johannes
- HI&RH Archduke Ludwig
- HI&RH Archduchess Isabella
- HI&RH Archduchess Charlotte
- HI&RH Archduke Philipp
- HI&RH Archduchess Catharina-Maria
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Extended family
Descendants of Archduke Maximilian Eugen:
- HI&RH Archduchess Helene
- HI&RH Archduchess Ludmilla
- HI&RH Archduke Philipp
HI&RH Archduchess Mayasuni
- HI&RH Archduchess Amaya Anna
- HI&RH Archduchess Marie-Christine
- HI&RH Archduke Ferdinand
HI&RH Archduchess Katharina
- HI&RH Archduke Jakob-Maximilian
- HI&RH Archduchess Paulina
- HI&RH Archduchess Lara Sophie
- HI&RH Archduke Konrad
HI&RH Archduchess Ashmita
Descendants of Archduke Joseph Francis:
- HI&RH Archduke Joseph Arpád
HI&RH Archduchess Maria
- HI&RH Archduchess Monika-Ilona
- HI&RH Archduke Joseph Karl
HI&RH Archduchess Margarete
- HI&RH Archduchess Johanna
- HI&RH Archduke Joseph Albrecht
- HI&RH Archduke Paul Leo
- HI&RH Archduchess Elisabeth
- HI&RH Archduchess Maria Christine
- HI&RH Archduke Andreas-Augustinus
HI&RH Archduchess Marie-Christine
- HI&RH Archduke Friedrich-Cyprian
- HI&RH Archduke Pierre
- HI&RH Archduchess Célina Maria
- HI&RH Archduchess Maria-Floriana
- HI&RH Archduke Benedikt-Alexander
- HI&RH Archduchess Alexandra
- HI&RH Archduke Nicolaus
HI&RH Archduchess Eugenia
- HI&RH Archduke Nicolas Augustin
- HI&RH Archduchess Sofia Eugenia
- HI&RH Archduke Santiago
- HI&RH Archduke Johannes Jacobus
HI&RH Archduchess Maria Gabriela
- HI&RH Archduke Johannes Maria
- HI&RH Archduchess Maria Kynga
- HI&RH Archduke Géza
- HI&RH Archduke Michael Koloman
HI&RH Archduchess Christina
- HI&RH Archduke Eduard
HI&RH Archduchess Marie Therese
- HI&RH Archduchess Anne Caroline
- HI&RH Archduchess Theresa Maria
- HI&RH Archduke Paul Benedikt
- HI&RH Archduchess Sophie
- HI&RH Archduchess Ladislaya
- HI&RH Archduchess Rosa
- HI&RH Archduke Paul
- HI&RH Archduchess Margherita
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After her Abitur graduation in 1977 in Tutzing, Bavaria, she studied canonical law to the doctoral level in Salzburg.
From 1979 to 1992 she worked as an assistant at the European Parliament. In 1983 she studied at the National Journalism Center in Washington, D.C., and worked at the office of Reader's Digest in the same city. She worked for the Ministry of Information of the Sultanate of Oman from 1985–1992, and in 2004 she became a member of the board of the Arab International Media Forum in London.
Political career
In 1973 she co-founded Paneuropa-Jugend Deutschland, and was its chairperson in Bavaria, and vice chairperson on the national level. In 1977 she founded Brüsewitz-Zentrum (Christlich-Paneuropäisches Studienwerk). From 1980 to 1988 she was assistant international Secretary General of the international Paneuropean Union, 1988 to 2004 she was its Secretary General and she is its executive vice chairperson since 2004.
She was one of the organisers of the Paneuropa-Picknick at the Iron Curtain on the 19 August 1989, on the border between Hungary and Austria. At this occasion, the fence was opened for the first time, letting more than 660 Germans from the GDR escape from the east. This was the largest number of escapees since the Berlin Wall was built and is seen by many as one of the main symbols of the fall of Eastern European Communism.
Since 2003 she is the chairperson of the local branch of the Swedish Moderate Party in Flen and on the board of the regional organisation of the party in Södermanland. She is a member of the board of the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation since 2005, a foundation closely linked to the Moderate Party.
In 1999 and 2004 she ran for the European Parliament for the Moderate Party, in 2002 and 2006 she ran for the national parliament (riksdagen). She was elected, 17 September 2006 to the Swedish Parliament, in an election which showed the greatest support for the Moderate Party since 1928. Chair of the Swedish Parliamentary delegation to the OSCE since 2006. She was re-elected to the Swedish Parliament in 2010.
She is a board member of the Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism.
Honours
National dynastic honour
Foreign honour
- : Dame of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Ancestors
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- Isabella Clara Eugenia, Co-sovereign of the Habsburg Hetherlands*
- Catherine Michelle, Duchess of Savoy*
- Archduchess Maria*
- Anna, Queen of Spain
- Elisabeth, Queen of France
- Archduchess Maria (1555–56)
- Archduchess Maria (1564)
- Archduchess Margaret (1567–1633)
- Archduchess Eleanor (1568-80)
- Archduchess Maria (1562-67)
- Archduchess Anna Eleanor
- Archduchess Maria (1584–1649)
- Anna, Holy Roman Empress
- Anna, Queen of Poland
- Maria Christina, Princess of Transilvania
- Archduchess Catherine Renata
- Archduchess Elisabeth (1577–86)
- Archduchess Gregoria Maximiliana
- Archduchess Eleanor (1582–1620)
- Margaret, Queen of Spain
- Constance, Queen of Poland
- Maria Maddalena, Grand Duchess of Tuscany
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- Archduchess Ludovika Elisabeth
- Marie Louise, Empress of the French
- Archduchess Carolina Ferdinande**
- Archduchess Maria Caroline
- Archduchess Caroline Ludovika
- Maria Leopoldina, Empress of Brazil
- Clementina, Princess of Salerno
- Archduchess Maria Luisa**
- Archduchess Alexandrine
- Maria Theresa, Queen of Sardinia**
- Marie Caroline, Crown Princess of Saxony
- Archduchess Maria Anna
- Archduchess Amalia Theresa
- Maria Theresa, Queen of the Two Sicilies
- Maria Theresa, Countess of Chambord***
- Archduchess Hermine
- Archduchess Franziska
- Archduchess Maria Caroline
- Adelaide, Queen of Sardinia
- Maria Beatrix, Countess of Montizón***
- Archduchess Maria Caroline
- Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska
- Marie Henriette, Queen of the Belgians
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15th generation |
- Archduchess Sophie
- Gisela, Princess Leopold of Bavaria
- Archduchess Marie Valerie
- Margarete Sophie, Duchess of Württemberg
- Archduchess Maria Annunziata
- Elisabeth, Princess Aloys of Liechtenstein
- Archduchess Maria Antonietta**
- Luise, Crown Princess of Saxony**
- Anna, Princess of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein**
- Archduchess Margareta**
- Archduchess Germana**
- Archduchess Agnes**
- Archduchess Maria Theresa**
- Karoline Marie, Princess Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha**
- Archduchess Maria Antonietta**
- Maria Immaculata, Duchess of Württemberg**
- Archduchess Henriette**
- Maria Christina, Princess Emmanuel of Salm-Salm
- Maria Anna, Princess Elias of Bourbon Parma
- Maria Henrietta, Princess of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst
- Archduchess Natalie
- Archduchess Stephanie
- Archduchess Gabrielle
- Isabella, Princess Georg of Bavaria
- Alice, Baroness Waldbott of Bassenheim
- Archduchess Eleonora, Mrs. Alfons von Kloss
- Renata, Princess Hieronymus Radziwill
- Mechthildis, Princess Olgierd Czartoryski
- Archduchess Gisele
- Archduchess Sophie
- Archduchess Magdalena
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- Elisabeth Marie, Princess of Windisch-Graetz
- Helena, Duchess Philipp of Württemberg**
- Rosa, Duchess of Württemberg**
- Archduchess Dolores**
- Maria Inmaculada, Nobile Inigo Neri Sereneri**
- Margarita, Marchioness Taliani di Marchio**
- Princess Maria Antonia, Mrs. Luis Pérez**
- Archduchess Assunta, Mrs. Joseph Hopfinger**
- Elisabeth, Countess of Waldburg-Zeil**
- Hedwig, Countess of Stolberg-Stolberg**
- Gertrud, Countess of Waldburg-Zeil-Trauchburg**
- Archduchess Maria Elisabeth**
- Archduchess Agnes**
- Archduchess Margarethe, Mrs. Alexander Cech
- Ilona, Duchess of Mecklenburg
- Archduchess Anna Theresia
- Archduchess Maria Kynga, Mrs. Joachim Krist
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- Descent of Charles I :
- Archduchess Adelheid
- Charlotte, Duchess of Mecklenburg
- Elisabeth, Princess Heinrich of Liechtenstein
Tuscany :
- Elisabeth, Edle Hubert von Braun**
- Alice, Baroness Vittorio Manno**
- Marie Antoinette, Baroness of Proff in Irnich**
- Archduchess Marie Christine**
- Archduchess Walburga, Mrs. Carlos Tasso**
- Archduchess Verena**
- Archduchess Katharina, Mrs. Roland Huber**
- Agnes, Baroness Peter of Fürstenberg**
- Maria Ileana, Countess Adam Kottulinski**
- Alexandra, Baroness Viktor of Baillou**
- Maria Magdalena, Baroness of Holzhausen**
- Archduchess Elisabeth, Mrs. Friedrich Sandhofer**
- Agnes, Princess Karl Alfred of Liechtenstein**
- Archduchess Maria Margaretha**
- Archduchess Ludovica**
- Archduchess Allix**
- Josepha, Countess Clemens of Waldstein-Wartenberg**
- Valerie, Margravine of Baden**
- Alberta, Baroness Alexander of Kottwitz-Erdödy**
- Theresa, Princess Rasso of Bavaria**
- Maria Inmakulata, Countess Reinhart of Hoensbroech**
Palatines :
- Archduchess Monika, Mrs. Charles de Rambures
- Archduchess Marie Christine, Mrs. Raymond van der Meide
- Archduchess Maria, Mrs. Wilhelm de Witt
- Margherita, Countess Benedikt of Piatti
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18th generation |
- Descent of Charles I :
- Andrea, Hereditary Countess of Neipperg
- Monika, Duchess of Maqueda
- Michaela, Countess Hubertus of Kageneck
- Archduchess Gabriela, Mrs. Christian Meister
- Walburga, Countess Archibald Douglas
- Maria Beatrix, Countess Riprand of Arco-Zinneberg***
- Isabella, Countess Andrea Czarnocki-Lucheschi***
- Maria del Pilar, Edle Vollrad-Joachim von Poschinger
- Kinga, Baroness Wolfgang of Erffa
- Archduchess Marie Adelheid, Mrs. Jaime Corcuerra
- Archduchess Viridis, Mrs. Karl Dunning-Gribble
- Archduchess Alexandra, Mrs. Héctor Riesle
- Maria Constanza, Princess of Auersperg-Trautson
- Maria Anna, Princess Peter Galitzine
- Catharina, Countess Maximiliano Secco d'Aragona
Descent of Maximilian :
- Archduchess Elisabeth, Mrs. James Litchfield
- Sophie, Princess of Windisch-Grätz
- Archduchess Marie Christine, Mrs. Clemens Guggenberg
Tuscany :
- Archduchess Marie Bernadette, Mrs. Rupert Wolff**
- Archduchess Katharina, Mrs. Niall Brooks**
- Archduchess Alicia**
- Archduchess Maria Christina**
- Archduchess Margaretha, Mrs. Andreas Baumgartner**
- Archduchess Marie Valerie, Mrs. Martin Josef Wagner**
- Archduchess Hedwig**
- Archduchess Veronika**
Palatines :
- Archduchess Johanna
- Archduchess Elisabeth
- Archduchess Celina
- Archduchess Maria Floriana
- Archduchess Sofía
- Archduchess Anna Carolina
- Archduchess Theresa
- Archduchess Sophie
- Archduchess Ladislaya
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- * also an infanta of Spain
- ** also a princess of Tuscany
- *** also a princess of Modena
- ° also a princess of Belgium
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