Princess Tatiana Petrovna Galitzine (born 16 August 1984) is an American-born architectural designer and

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activist.

Biography

Princess Tatiana was born on 16 August 1984 in

Santa Clara, California Santa Clara (; Spanish for " Saint Clare") is a city in Santa Clara County, California. The city's population was 127,647 at the 2020 census, making it the eighth-most populous city in the Bay Area. Located in the southern Bay Area, the cit ...

. She is the second of six children of Prince Peter Galitzine and Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria. She is a member of the

House of Golitsyn The House of Golitsyn or Galitzine was one of the largest princely of the noble houses in the Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire. Among them were boyars, warlords, diplomats, generals (the Mikhailovichs), stewards, chamberlains, the richest m ...

, 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

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. Princess Tatiana is a great-granddaughter of

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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

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. She was an older sister of Princess Maria Galitzine. She grew up in Luxembourg, Russia, and the United States and earned degrees in architecture and engineering from the

Technical University of Munich The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences. Establis ...

. In 2011, she visited Austria to attend the

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of her granduncle

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, the last Crown Prince of Austria. She moved from

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

, where she was working for

Andrew Skurman Andrew Skurman (March 17, 1953) is an American architect. He is currently principal architect at Andrew Skurman Architects. Early life and education Skurman was born in Oceanside, New York in 1953. Skurman received his bachelor of architecture in ...

Architects, to

Houston Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in ...

to work at the architectural firm Gensler. In 2017, she founded her own company, Tatiermo Design Firm. She and her husband are board members of UNICEF's Houston Regional Office. Princess Tatiana married Guillermo Sierra y Uribe, a Mexican-American investment banker, on 29 April 2017 in a

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ceremony at the

Colegio de San Ignacio de Loyola Vizcaínas Colegio de San Ignacio de Loyola Vizcaínas is a non-profit educational institution which was established in the mid 18th century in a Baroque building that occupies an entire city block in the historic center of Mexico City. The school has ma ...

in Mexico City. The wedding was attended by

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, Princess Theresa of Liechtenstein, and

Simeon von Habsburg Simeon Carl Eugen Joseph Leopold von Habsburg (born 29 June 1958 in Katana, South Kivu, Belgian Congo),Almanach de Gotha (2018), 'Austria', Pages 42-86 also called Simeon Habsburg-Lothringen and Archduke Simeon of Austria, is an Austrian banker, p ...

. They live in Houston.

References

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