L’Italy for the third time in a few months it was chosen by the European nobility as scenario of a fairytale royal wedding. After Lady Kitty Spencer’s wedding in Rome and those of Prince Don Jaime of Bourbon with Lady Charlotte in Sicily, the time has come Maria Astrid del Liechtenstein, that Saturday 25 September he said yes to Ralph Worthington in the splendid setting of the Orbetello cathedral.
When the princess, Maria Annunciata’s younger sister (who had chosen Umbria to celebrate her civil wedding) arrived at the cathedral, it took four adults to help transport her. impressive train. Ad accompanying her to the altar was her father, Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein. The bride, always smiling, on her head a splendid one tiara family of the nineteenth century made with honeysuckle motifs in diamonds, silver and gold, she opted for a natural make-up and a hairstyle, even the very simple one, with her hair arranged in a side line and gathered under the long veil. There were four accompanying her bridesmaids wearing white collared dresses paired with lime green satin ribbons and flower crowns.
Many royals present at the ceremony, including Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume and Hereditary Grand Duchess Stephanie, Prince Felix and Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg, Prince Lorenzo and the Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Princess Ekaterina, Prince Christian and Alessandra di Osma. And then of course there was the bride’s sister, the princess Maria Annunciata, who just a few days ago celebrated his wedding with a religious rite in Vienna with Emanuele Musini.
Maria Astrid, born in Brussels in 1987, is the second of three children, after Annunciata (1985) and before Josef Emanuel (1989). Its training is economic, the master obtained at the London School for Business and Finance confirms this, but his choice, however, fell on interior design. She has a very versatile personality, which has also led her to take an interest in cooking and pastry, attending the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu school of culinary art in Paris.
Ralph Worthington, on the other hand, is a descendant of the founder of Metropolitan Oil, whose family lives in the Hamptons. Right in the family enclave, Ralph launched the Station restaurant in 2012. In the past he was in the United Arab Emirates, where he directed one contemporary art gallery in Dubai and founded an infrastructure and tourism consultancy firm. Today he continues to work in this sector as a partner of Ag awam Hospitality Group, in New York.
The two, who they have chosen the lagoon of Orbetello probably to stay away from the clamor of the big city, they met in 2019 and had decided to get married in 2020, but the situation due to the coronavirus pandemic has upset their plans, causing the marriage to be postponed to 2021.
Maria Astrid, that is member of not only one, but two royal families, being the granddaughter of the late Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg and of Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium on her mother’s side, she will not be the last royal to marry in 2021. On 1 October, His Imperial Highness George Mikhailovich, 40, last heir of the Tsars, will marry the Italian Rebecca Bettarini, 35 in St. Petersburg.
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