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Princess ''Anna'' Monika Pia of Saxony, Duchess of Saxony (german: Prinzessin Anna Monika Pia von Sachsen, Herzogin zu Sachsen; 4 May 1903 – 8 February 1976) was the seventh and youngest child of

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and his wife

Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany Archduchess Louise of Austria (2 September 1870, in Salzburg – 23 March 1947, in Brussels) was by marriage Crown Princess of Saxony as the wife of the future King Frederick Augustus III. Life Crown Princess of Saxony Louise was born on 2 Sept ...

and a younger sister of both

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Early life

While pregnant with Anna, her mother Luise left Saxony on 9 December 1902 without her children. Anna was born in

, during her parents' separation; after her mother's second marriage in 1907, Luise sent the child to the royal court in Dresden where she was raised with her five siblings by her father Frederick Augustus.

Marriage and issue

Anna married

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, eldest son of

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and his wife

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, on 4 October 1924 at Schloss Sibyllenort in Sibyllenort,

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. Anna and Joseph Francis had eight children: * Archduchess ''Margarethe'' of Austria (17 August 1925 – 3 May 1979) married Alexander Czech, Prince of Monteleone, son of General Jószef Cech (1855-1938) and Princess Amalia Erba Odescalchi dei Principi di Monteleone (1889-1969). Based on his ancestry Alexander was awarded with the title of Principe di Monteleone by King

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, just before his marriage to the Archduchess. * Archduchess ''Ilona'' of Austria (20 April 1927 – 12 January 2011) married

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*Archduchess ''Anna-Theresia'' Gabriella of Austria (19 April 1928 – 28 November 1984) * Archduke ''Joseph Árpád'' of Austria (8 February 1932 – 30 April 2017) married Princess Maria von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg *Archduke ''István'' Dominik Anton Umberto of Austria (1 July 1934 – 24 October 2011) married Maria Anderl *Archduchess ''Maria Kynga'' Beatrix of Austria (born 27 August 1938) married, firstly, Ernst Kiss. She married, secondly, Joachim Krist on 30 March 1988. * Archduke ''Géza'' Ladislaus of Austria (born 14 November 1940) married Monika Decker *Archduke ''Michael'' Koloman of Austria (born 5 May 1942) married Princess Christiana of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (born 1940, daughter of Charles, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg) Fifteen years after the death of Joseph Francis in

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, on 25 September 1957, Anna married Reginald Kazanjian (1905–1990) in a civil ceremony on 28 July 1971 in

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, and in a religious ceremony on 9 September 1971 in

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. On 8 February 1976, she died in

, aged 72.

Ancestry

References

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