Countess Marie-Jenke Keglevich of Buzin


Countess Marie-Jenke Keglevich of Buzin was the second wife of Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, head of the House of Wittelsbach and pretender to the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1955 to 1996 as well as Jacobite pretender to the thrones of England, Scotland, Ireland, and France.
Wittelsbach loyalists hold that she was the rightful Queen Consort of Bavaria from 1971-83. Jacobites consider her the rightful Queen Consort of England, Scotland, Ireland, and France during the same period.

Early life

Marie-Jenke was born at Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary on 23 April 1921, descended from the House of Keglević, a Croatian noble family. She was the fourth child and only daughter of Count Stephan Keglevich of Buzin and Countess Klára Zichy of Zich and Vásonkeö.

Marriage and family

Countess Marie-Jenke married on 21 April 1971 and on 22 April 1971 in Weichselboden, Styria Austria, to Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, son of Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria and his first wife, Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria and grandson of King Ludwig III of Bavaria. They had no issue. Albrecht had been married previously to Countess Maria Draskovich of Trakostjan who died in 1969.
She co-authored her husband's book on "the habits of deer" for which both of them received honorary doctorates by the biological faculty of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She died in a car accident in their private hunting district in a mountain forest in Styria, Austria.

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