: Thanks for this Eric. Debenham is a small
: market town about 3 miles from where I
: work. I never knew this marriage took place
: there. Found this -
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: After her second divorce she wed Prince
: Alexander, in Debenham, Suffolk, on 14 March
: 1991. They had been introduced in 1986 by
: former defence minister Léon Mundeleer.
: Alexander asked her to accompany him to the
: cinema. She vacillated initially, but they
: began to enjoy dining out together,
: Alexander being a gourmand, according to his
: future wife.[1]
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: The couple had no children together, and the
: marriage was kept secret until 1998, as
: reportedly the prince feared his mother
: would disapprove.[1] Alexander's marriage
: contravened Article 85 of the Belgian
: constitution, which deprived of the right of
: succession to the throne any descendant of
: King Leopold I who marries without the
: sovereign's permission.[2]
Did Pr. Alexandre ever had any succession rights ?
I thought King Leopold's 2nd marriage was considered morganatic and the issue from such marriage was not in-line to the throne...
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: as Princess Léa was born as Léa Inge Dora
: Wolman on 2 December 1951 in Etterbeek, part
: of Brussels, as the daughter and only child
: of Sigismund Wolman and Lisa Bornstein.
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: In 1975 she married Serge Victorovich
: Spetschinsky by whom she has a daughter
: Laetitia born in 1976, who is married and
: has a son and a daughter.
: After the divorce in 1980, Léa remarried
: Roberto Bichara in 1982. A son Renaud was
: born the next year in 1983. Also this
: marriage ended in divorce.
: On 14 March 1991, she married a third time
: and in secret Prince Alexander of Belgium,
: son of King Leopold III and Princess Lilian.
: The ceremony was kept secret and took place
: in Debenham, Suffolk, Great Britain. Only in
: 1998 with the wedding of Prince Alexander's
: sister Princess Esmeralda, it became public
: the couple were married 7 years earlier. A
: late wedding party took place in September
: 1998 at the castle of Corroy-le-Château near
: Namur, castle in the posession of Marquis
: Olivier de Trazegnies,good friend of Prince
: Alexander, and his family.
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: Prince Alexander died very suddenly on 29
: November 2009 at home in Sint-Genesius
: Rode/Rhode Saint Genèse.
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: Picture from the Albanian wedding of Crown
: Prince Leka & Princess Elia last October
: 2016 in Tirana. Next to her her son Renaud
: Bichara.
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