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| Princesa Mónica. |
¡Hoy la princesa Mónica de Liechtenstein celebra su octogésimo cumpleaños!
Nacida el 8 de abril de 1942 en Viena, la Princesa Mónica María Teresa Isabel de Liechtenstein fue la única hija del Príncipe Constantino de Liechtenstein (1911-2001) y su primera esposa María Isabel von Leutzendorff (1921-1944), quienes se casaron en 1941. La Princesa María Isabel murió durante un bombardeo en Viena. A finales de la década de 1970, el Príncipe Constantino se volvió a casar con la Condesa Ilona Esterházy von Galántha (1921-2019; viuda del Conde Miklós Cziráky von Czirák und Dénesfalva).
El príncipe Constantino y la princesa Mónica fueron invitados a una fiesta ofrecida en St. Moritz por Joan Crawford en 1955, lo que se menciona en las páginas del libro de la no tan feliz hija de Joan, Christina, Mommie Dearest . Al año siguiente, en 1956, cuando ella tenía catorce años, Mónica y el príncipe Francesco Borghese comenzaron una relación. Su padre estaba tan perturbado por el apego romántico de su hija, debido a su juventud, que hizo que Mónica se quedara en un convento en Viena durante un año para "pensarlo". Huelga decir que Mónica y Francesco no se casaron.
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.
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| 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.
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| Prince Constantin and his daughter Princess Monica, 1958. |
Our best wishes to the Princess on her birthday!
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