⭐ 🔴 La princesse Monica de Liechtenstein, qui s'est enfuie au Brésil, a 80 ans !

Princesse Monica.

Aujourd'hui, la princesse Monica von und zu Liechtenstein fête son quatre-vingtième anniversaire !

Née le 8 avril 1942 à Vienne, la princesse Monica Maria Theresia Elisabeth de Liechtenstein était la fille unique du prince Constantin de Liechtenstein (1911-2001) et de sa première épouse Maria Elisabeth von Leutzendorff (1921-1944), qui se sont mariés en 1941. La princesse Maria Elisabeth a été tuée lors d'un bombardement à Vienne. À la fin des années 1970, le prince Constantin s'est remarié avec la comtesse Ilona Esterházy von Galántha (1921-2019 ; veuve du comte Miklós Cziráky von Czirák und Dénesfalva).

Le prince Constantin et la princesse Monica étaient invités à une fête donnée à Saint-Moritz par Joan Crawford en 1955, ce qui est mentionné dans les pages du livre de Christina, la fille de Joan, qui n'était pas très heureuse, Mommie Dearest . L'année suivante, en 1956, alors qu'elle avait quatorze ans, Monica et le prince Francesco Borghese entamèrent une relation. Son père était si perturbé par l'attachement romantique de sa fille, en raison de son jeune âge, qu'il fit séjourner Monica dans un couvent à Vienne pendant un an pour « y réfléchir ». Inutile de dire que Monica et Francesco ne se marièrent pas.

In 1959, Princess Monica represented her family at the inauguration of the new Brazilian capital, Brasília. During the festivities, she met her future husband, Andrzej Franciszek Spitzman Jordan (b.1933; also known as André Franz Jordan), a Polish expat who had become a businessman in Latin America. The couple swiftly fell in love. When Monica returned to Vaduz, she told her family of her feelings for André. Her father Constantin was not wholly opposed to his only child’s desire to marry Mr. Jordan. However, her cousin Prince Franz Joseph II and his wife Princess Georgina did not think the union wise or “suitable,” given Monica’s status. In an attempt to win over her family, Monica cabled André and asked him to come to Liechtenstein, which he did in short order. His reception by the princely family was reportedly courteous but not terribly warm. Franz Joseph told Monica: “The young man is cultured and pleasant and I wish him well. But I’m dead set against your marrying a commoner as I’ve been before.” Faced with the opposition of the sovereign prince, Monica decided to do a rather daring deed. The eighteen year-old decided to run away from home and elope. She and André agreed that he would return to Rio de Janeiro and prepare for their marriage. Several weeks later, Monica pretended that she was going to visit relatives in Paris. When she arrived in the French capital, she boarded a plane for Brazil that ended up being grounded in London due to poor weather conditions. It took her father Constantin almost two days to find out that his daughter was staying at a hotel in the British capital. He was able to reach Monica by phone, but she refused to return to Vaduz. The next day she flew to Brazil.

Monica and André on their wedding day.

On 25 November 1960 at Rio de Janeiro, Princess Monica of Liechtenstein and André Jordan were married. The couple had two sons, Gilberto Frederic Jordan (b.1961) and Constantino Pedro Jordan (b.1964), before divorcing in 1969. Prince Constantin flew to Rio for his first grandson Gilberto’s christening. In February 1979, Princess Monica joined her father Prince Constantin and their cousin Princess Barbara with her husband Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia for a holiday in St. Moritz.