Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg

Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg (born Sibilla Sandra Weiller Torlonia on 12 June 1968) is the wife of Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg.

Family

Her father was Paul-Annik Weiller (1933-1998), the first son of Paul-Louis Weiller of the Javal family and Aliki Diplarakos. Paul-Louis Weiller, an aviator, engineer, industrialist and famous patron of the arts. Shot down no less than five times by Germans during World War I, he was one of the youngest recipients of the Legion of Honor and later made a fortune in the civil aviation, oil and international banking industries. He was secondly married to Miss Europe 1930, Aliki Diplarakou. Aliki, Sibilla’s paternal grandmother, later went on to marry Sir Jack Russell a British diplomat and ambassador to Ethiopia, Brazil and Spain.

Her mother is an Italian noblewoman, Donna Olimpia Torlonia Civitella-Cesi (born 1943), daughter of Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince Civitella-Cesi and Infanta Beatriz of Spain.

Sibilla has three surviving sisters: Aliki Beatrice Victoria (1967), married to André Aranha Correia Lago; Cosima Marie Elisabeth Edmée (1984); and Domitilla Louise Marie (1985). A younger sister Laura Daphné Lavinia (1974-1980) and brother, Paul Alexandre (1970-1970) died in childhood. The family lived in Geneva.

Princess Sibilla is a second cousin of the current King Felipe VI of Spain; her grandmother was Infanta Beatriz of Spain, the aunt of King Juan Carlos I of Spain. She also is a second cousin of the actress Brooke Shields; they share great-grandparents. Sibilla's grandfather, Prince Alessandro was the brother of Brooke Shields' grandmother Marina Torlonia.

Marriage

On September 8 that same year, she civilly married Prince Guillaume, the youngest child of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg and Princess Josephine-Charlotte of Belgium. A civil wedding was held on September 8 1994, in Selestat, France, followed by a religiously ceremony on September 24 1994, at the Versailles Cathedral (Cathedral Saint-Louis Versailles), receiving the title Princess of Luxembourg. The bride wore a Valentino wedding gown.

Guillaume and Sibilla have four children, who carry the title Prince (ss) of Nassau with the style Royal Highness:

-Prince Paul Louis Jean Marie Guillaume of Nassau (born at Grand Duchess Charlotte Maternity Hospital in Luxembourg, 4 March 1998). His godfather is his cousin, Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Prince Leopold Guillaume Marie Joseph of Nassau (born at Grand Duchess Charlotte Maternity Hospital in Luxembourg, 2 May 2000). His godparents are Archduke Martin of Austria and Elvire Paste Rochefort, Princess Charlotte Wilhelmine Maria Gloria of Nassau (born at Grand Duchess Charlotte Maternity in Luxembourg, 2 May 2000). Her godparents are Philippe Jaczynski and Donna Pilar Mendez Vigo Lowenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Prince Jean André Guillaume Marie Gabriel Marc Aviano of Nassau (born at Grand Duchess Charlotte Maternity Hospital in Luxembourg, 13 July 2004). His godparents are André Aranha Correia Lago (mother’s brother-in-law) and Countess Gabriella Waldburg-Zeil.

Sibilla and Guillaume are related to each other distantly in several different ways, but the closet is as fifth cousins once removed in descent from Charles IV of Spain, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weiburg. Their sons are in the line of succession to the throne of Luxembourg.

Education and Career

Princess Sibilla was educated at the Institute Florimont, Geneva, graduating with a baccalaureate in economics with honors. She then studied at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris, graduating with a diploma in Art History in 1991. She worked at the Museum des Monument Francais.

Princess Sibilla then studied contemporary art in London, and worked for different galleries, before opening her own gallery in 1993.

Title

12 June 1968-24 September 1994: Miss Sibilla Sandra Weiller Torlonia

24 September 1994 Her Royal Highness Princess Sibilla Sandra Weiller of Luxembourg, Princess of Nassau, Princess of Bourbon-Parma

Honor

-Luxembourg: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Adolphe of Nassau

House: Luxembourg-Nassau (by marriage), Bourbon-Parma (agnatic)

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Religion: Catholicism

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