Laetitia d'Arenberg

Laetitia Marie Madeleine Susanne Valentine de Belzunce d'Arenberg (born September 2, 1941), known as Laetitia d'Arenberg, is a French Uruguayan businesswoman. Personal life She was born on September 2, 1941, in Brummana, Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (now Lebanon). She is a daughter of Henri de Belzunce, Marquis de Belzunce, and Marie-Thérèse de la Poëze d'Harambure (1911–2005), members of the historical French nobility by birth. Her father was an officer in the Moroccan Tirailleurs and died fighting for France at the Battle of Monte Cassino on May 13, 1944. He belonged to a family of ancient nobility in France, originally from Lower Navarre, who held the seigneurie of Belzunce near Bayonne (where the family was notable since the 12th century) and had received the Honneurs de la Cour at Paris in 1739. On August 20, 1949, her mother was remarried to Prince Erik Engelbert, 11th Duke of Arenberg (1901–1992). In 1951, she moved with her family to Uruguay because her family feared the expansion of the Korean War to Europe. On February 15, 1956, Laetitia and her brother (Rodrigue) were adopted by their stepfather, the Duke of Arenberg. Her legal surname became "de Belzunce d'Arenberg", and she became one of the heirs to his personal fortune. On June 19, 1965, she was married civilly to HIRH Archduke Leopold Franz of Austria-Tuscany at St. Gilgen, Austria. The religious nuptials followed on July 28 at Menetou-Salon, France.