Walburga Habsburg Douglas
| Archduchess Walburga | |
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| Archduchess of Austria | |
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Archduchess Walburga at the European People's Party, Bonn
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| Born |
5 October 1958 Berg am Starnberger See, Germany |
| Spouse | Count Archibald Douglas |
| Issue | Count Moritz Douglas |
| House | Habsburg |
| Father | Crown Prince Otto of Austria |
| Mother | Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen |
Archduchess Walburga of Austria (born 5 October 1958) is a German-born Swedish lawyer and politician, serving in the Riksdag of Sweden as a member of the Moderate Party (since 2006). She is also the vice-president of the Paneuropean Union and a board member of the Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism.
Born in 1958 in Berg am Starnberger See, Germany, she is the daughter of the late Otto von Habsburg, last crown prince of Austria-Hungary, and of Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen. Her given names are Walburga Maria Franziska Helene Elisabeth. At the time of her birth, her father was stateless, domiciled in Germany on a Spanish diplomatic passport. Walburga was banished from the Republic of Austria from birth and well into adult life, along with her siblings, by the Habsburg Law that had been in effect since 1938, having been (re)imposed by the Nazis. The Austrian Republic was forced to repeal the banishment of Walburga and her family, which was found to violate their human rights, as a precondition for admission to the European Union.
After her Abitur graduation in 1977 in Tutzing, Bavaria, she studied canonical law to the doctoral level in Salzburg.
From 1979 to 1992 she worked as an assistant at the European Parliament. In 1983 she studied at the National Journalism Center in Washington, D.C., and worked at the office of Reader's Digest in the same city. She worked for the Ministry of Information of the Sultanate of Oman from 1985–1992, and in 2004 she became a member of the board of the Arab International Media Forum in London.
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