In Memoriam William de Gelsey

Today we say a final farewell in the Matthias Church to William de Gelsey, who died on February 26, 2021 at the age of 100. In addition to personal appreciation, we also commemorate him here, on the website of our Foundation, since in the early eighties he was the one who tried to promote Otto von Habsburg’s entry into Hungary.

Wedding a ’la Habsburg 70 years ago

On 10 May 1951 Otto von Habsburg and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen were married in Nancy, France. The carefully prepared and documented event, attended by tens of thousands of people from the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, was worthy of the historical and social status of the last heir to the Hungarian throne, the head of the House of Habsburg.