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For the wife of Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, see Archduchess Maria Henrietta of Austria.

Marie Henriette of Austria (Marie Henriette Anne; 23 August 1836 – 19 September 1902) was Queen of the Belgians as the wife of King Leopold II. The marriage was arranged against the will of both Marie Henriette and Leopold and became unhappy due to their dissimilarity, and after 1872 the couple lived separate lives, though they continued to appear together in public. Queen Marie Henriette was described as an energetic and intelligent horsewoman, foremost devoted to her animals. In 1895, she openly retired from public life and lived her last seven years in the city of Spa, where she became known as "The Queen of Spa".

Marie Henriette of Austria

Picture of Queen Marie Henriette holding an umbrella

The Queen in 1875

Queen consort of the Belgians

Tenure

10 December 1865 – 19 September 1902

Born

23 August 1836

Buda Castle, Buda, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire

Died

19 September 1902 (aged 66)

Hôtel du Midi,[1] Spa, Belgium

Burial

Church of Our Lady of Laeken

Spouse

Leopold II of Belgium

​(m. 1853)​

Issue

Louise, Princess Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant

Stéphanie, Crown Princess of Austria

Clémentine, Princess Napoléon

Names

Marie Henriette Anne

House

Habsburg-Lorraine

Father

Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary

Mother

Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg

Early life

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Marie Henriette was the youngest of five children from the marriage of Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, and Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg. Marie Henriette was a cousin of Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria, and granddaughter of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, through her father. She was also a first cousin, once removed to the future Queen Mary of the United Kingdom through her mother.

Her father was Palatine of Hungary, and she spent a great deal of her childhood in the Buda Castle in Hungary. She lost her father at the age of ten. After her father's death, she became a ward of Archduke John of Austria at the Palais Augarten in Vienna. It was said that she was raised by her mother "as a boy". Marie Henriette was a vivid and energetic person with a strong will and a hot temperament, interested in riding.

Marriage

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One day before her 17th birthday, she married 18-year-old Prince Leopold of Belgium, the heir to the throne, on 22 August 1853. Leopold was the second-surviving son of Leopold I of Belgium and his French wife, Louise of Orléans; Marie Henriette was the sister-in-law of Charlotte of Belgium, future Empress of Mexico and a cousin by marriage to Victoria of the United Kingdom and Maria II of Portugal. The marriage was arranged to strengthen the status of the Belgian Monarchy. As the former Protestant monarch of a newly established monarchy, the Belgian king wished his son to marry a member of a Roman Catholic and prestigious dynasty, and the name Habsburg was one of her more important qualities. The marriage furthermore created a historical link between the new Kingdom of Belgium and the Habsburg dynasty of the Austrian Netherlands.

The marriage was suggested by her future father-in-law the king of Belgium to her guardian, the Archduke John of Austria, and arranged by the two men over her head. She was introduced to Leopold at an Imperial court ball at Hofburg in May 1853, and she was informed that she was to marry him. Neither she nor Leopold made a good impression on each other. She protested against the marriage plans without success, but was convinced to submit to it by her mother. Leopold himself also commented that he

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