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 -
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]
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]
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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.
:
: 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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