3-070-893 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Archduke Rudolph, Crown Prince of Austria, and Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, 1881. 'The approaching marriage of the heir-apparent to the Austrian Empire with a daughter of the King of the Belgians, to be celebrated next week at Vienna, is an event that is naturally looked upon with great interest by all the Courts of Europe...we now present the portraits of the illustrious bride-elect and her intended bridegroom. The Archduke Rudolph Francis Charles Joseph, Crown Prince Imperial of Austria, Crown Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, is the son and second child of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and of the Empress Elizabeth, who was a daughter of the late Duke Maximilian of Bavaria. His Imperial and Royal Highness was born on Aug. 21, 1858. He visited England a few years ago, and made the personal acquaintance of our Royal Family and many of the English aristocracy. Princess Stephanie Clotilde Louise Marie Charlotte, second daughter of King Leopold II. of the Belgians and of Queen Marie, a daughter of the late Archduke John of Austria, Palatine of Hungary, was born at Laeken, Brussels, on May 21, 1864'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.