Princess Clementine von Metternich-Sándor Winneburg (27 June 1870 – 25 October 1963) was an Austrian aristocrat.

Early life

She was born in Paris on 27 June 1870 into the

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, ten days after the death of her grandfather. Her father was the Austrian diplomat Richard, 2nd Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein. Her mother was Countess Pauline Sándor de Szlavnicza, an Austro-Hungarian socialite. Her mother was the daughter of her father's half-sister, Princess Leontine von Metternich-Winneburg. As a child she was badly injured after being attacked by a dog. She lived at Metternich Palace in Vienna.

Adult life

Princess Clementine, a favorite of the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt and a close friend of the famous coloratura soprano

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, was the founder of the Catholic charities organization in prewar Austria and devoted her life to charitable activities. As an adult, she adopted her grand nephew, Prince Franz Albrecht von

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, who was the son of her niece, Princess Elisabeth von Oettingen-Oettingen und Oettingen-Spielberg, and Victor III,

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. She abandoned the family estate in Hungary in 1947 and spent her last years with Prince Franz. Metternich-Sándor, who never married, died on 25 October 1963 at Schloss Corvey in Germany. Prior to her death, Metternich-Sándor was the last surviving grandchild of Klemens, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein, the Austrian statesman who organized the

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between November 1814 and June 1815.

References

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