Countess Margit Teleki de Szék (2 December 1860 – 26 January 1922) was a Hungarian

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, wife of Prime Minister

Károly Khuen-Héderváry Count Károly Khuen-Héderváry de Hédervár, born as ''Károly Khuen de Belás'' ( hr, Dragutin Khuen-Héderváry, 23 May 1849 – 16 February 1918) was a Hungarian politician and the Ban of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia in the late ninet ...

Family

She was born into a wealthy aristocratic

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n family in 1860 as the third child of Sándor (1829–1875) and Jozefina Teleki (1838–1915). One of her brothers was József, a

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. Margit Teleki married Khuen-Héderváry on 6 September 1880. They had two children: Sándor (1881–1946) and Károly the Younger (1888–1960).''Magyar életrajzi lexikon I. (A–K)''. ed. Ágnes Kenyeres. Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó. 1967. p. 914. She died on 26 January 1922 in Budapest, four years after her husband's death.

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Margit Teleki de Szék''Vasárnapi Újság'' 1903/27
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