Princess Laetitia Maria of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este

Princess Laetitia Maria of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este (Laetitia Maria Nora Anna Joachim Zita; born 23 April 2003) is the third daughter and youngest child of Lorenz, Archduke of Austria-Este and Princess Astrid of Belgium. She was born at the Saint Jean Hospital in Brussels, Belgium, and is currently 12th in line to the Belgian throne.

Biography

All of her grandparents and great-grandparents are royal or noble; she descends from the Austrian, Belgian, Italian, Swedish, French, Danish, British, Portuguese, Spanish and German royal families. Through her maternal grandmother, Queen Paola, she also descends from a number of prominent Italian noble families.

She has two older brothers, Amedeo (b. 1986) and Joachim (b. 1991), who is also her godfather, and two older sisters: Maria Laura (b. 1988) and Luisa Maria (b. 1995).

She is currently being educated at Bromsgrove School in the United Kingdom. As of the 2016–17 school year, she was in her 9th year of school.

Titles and styles

• 23 April 2003 – present: Her Imperial and Royal Highness (HI&RH) Princess Laetitia Maria of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, Princess of Modena.

All the children of Princess Astrid bear the title of "Prince(ss) of Belgium" by Belgian Royal Decree of 2 December 1991, in addition to their traditional Austrian titles, i.e. "Archduke/Archduchess of Austria-Este, Prince(ss) Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, Prince(ss) of Modena".

Ancestry