Princess Stéphanie Windisch-Graetz (17 July 1939 – 12 July 2019) was the daughter of Prince Franz Joseph zu

Windisch-Graetz The House of Windisch-Graetz, also spelled Windisch-Grätz, is an Austrian-Slovenian aristocratic family, descending from Windischgraz in Lower Styria (present-day Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia). The noble dynasty serving the House of Habsburg achieve ...

and granddaughter of

Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria hu, Erzsébet Mária Henrietta Stefánia Gizella , house = Habsburg-Lorraine , father = Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria , mother = Princess Stéphanie of Belgium , spouse = , issue = , religion = Roman Catholicism , birth_place = Fra ...

. Archduchess Elisabeth was the daughter of

Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria en, Rudolph Francis Charles Joseph , caption = Rudolf in 1887 , spouse = , issue = Elisabeth Marie, Princess Otto of Windisch-Graetz , house = Habsburg-Lorraine , father = Franz Joseph I of Austria , mother ...

and granddaughter of Emperor

Franz Joseph I of Austria Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (german: Franz Joseph Karl, hu, Ferenc József Károly, 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the Grand title of the Emperor of Austria, other states of the Habsburg m ...

. She became an artist, known for her photographic portraits using only candles as a source of light, and for her sensual images from the animal world. She married Dermot Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell (1935–2009). They were the parents of Henry Victor William Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell (born 1967) and Alexander Otto Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell (born 1969) who adopted the surname of his mother in 2011. She had one younger brother, Prince Guillaume Franz Josef Maria Windisch-Graetz (born 1950; unmarried). She died in a hospital in

Woluwe-Saint-Lambert Woluwe-Saint-Lambert () or Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe (Dutch, ) is one of the nineteen municipalities in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. It is a prosperous residential area, with a mixture of flats and detached, semi-detached and terraced hous ...

on 12 July 2019 due to complications after a heart operation.Stéphanie de Windisch-Graetz, de prinses die koningin der Belgen had kunnen zijn, maar eindigde in een appartementje met een minimumloon

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House of Habsburg-Lorraine 1939 births 2019 deaths Belgian photographers Belgian women photographers {{Austria-bio-stub