Princess Maria Petrovna Galitzine (11 May 1988 – 4 May 2020) was a Luxembourg-born Russian interior designer.
Biography
Princess Maria was born on 11 May 1988 in
Luxembourg City
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,
Luxembourg
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as the fourth of six children of Prince Peter Galitzine and
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria.
[ She is a member of the House of Golitsyn, a Russian noble family with Lithuanian ancestry.][ Her mother, the daughter of ]Archduke Rudolf of Austria
Rudolph Johann Joseph Rainier, Archduke of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, Cardinal-Archbishop of Olomouc (8 January 1788 – 24 July 1831), was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, and an Austrian clergyman and noble. He was ...
and Countess Xenia Czernichev-Besobrasov
Countess Xenia Czernichev-Besobrasov (Chernysheva-Besobrasova russian: графиня Ксения Сергеевна Чернышёва-Безобразова; 11 June 1929, Paris20 September 1968, Casteau, Belgium) was the first wife of Archduke ...
, is a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine
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.[ Princess Maria was a great-granddaughter of ]Charles I Charles I may refer to:
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and Zita of Bourbon-Parma
Zita of Bourbon-Parma (''Zita Maria delle Grazie Adelgonda Micaela Raffaela Gabriella Giuseppina Antonia Luisa Agnese''; 9 May 1892 – 14 March 1989) was the wife of Charles I of Austria, Charles, the last monarch of Austria-Hungary. As such, sh ...
, the last Emperor and Empress of Austria
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. She was also a descendant of King George II via his daughter Anne, Princess Royal
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. She was a younger sister of Princess Tatiana Galitzine.
In 1993, she moved to Russia with her parents and attended the German School of Moscow.[ She attended the College of Art & Design in ]Brussels
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before moving to Chicago to work as an interior designer.[ She later moved to ]Houston
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.[
She married Rishi Roop Singh, a Houston-based ]chef
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of Indian
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descent, in a Russian Orthodox ceremony on 10 February 2017.[ They had one son, Maxim Vir Singh.][
She died on 4 May 2020 from a ]cardiac aneurysm
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. She is buried in the Eastern Orthodox section of Forest Park Westheimer Cemetery in Houston.
References
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1988 births
2020 deaths
Golitsyn family
People from Houston
People from Luxembourg City
Interior designers
Russian people of Austrian descent
Russian princesses
Members of the Russian Orthodox Church