Belgian princess (born 1951)
Princess Lea
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Born
| Lea Inga Dora Wolman
(
1951-12-02
)
2 December 1951
(age 72)
Brussels
, Belgium
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Spouses
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Serge Victorovich Spetschinsky
(
m.
1975;
div.
1980)
Paul Robert Bichara
(
m.
1983;
div.
1987)
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Issue
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- Laetitia Sergeevna Spetschinskaya
- Renaud Bichara
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Father
| Sigismund Wolman
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Mother
| Lisa Bornstein
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Princess Lea of Belgium
(born
Lea Inga Dora Wolman
; 2 December 1951) is the widow of
Prince Alexandre of Belgium
. She is an aunt by marriage of King
Philippe of Belgium
.
Early life
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She was born on 2 December 1951 as the daughter of Sigismund Wolman (born in
Warsaw
on 12 July 1906),
[1]
a merchant in
Brussels
,
[1]
and Lisa Bornstein (born in Germany).
Marriages and issue
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She married Russian aristocrat Serge Victorovich
Spetschinsky
on 27 May 1975 in Brussels (son of Victor Sergeyevich Spetschinsky, President of the Russian Nobility Association in Belgium, and Elena Dmitrievna Guebel), from whom she was divorced on 28 March 1980. They had a daughter, Laetitia Spetschinsky (born in 1976), who is now married to
HE
Didier Nagant de Deuxchaisnes, Ambassador of Belgium to Ethiopia, and mother of three children.
On 23 July 1983, she married Paul Robert Bichara in
Uccle
, and they had a son, Renaud Bichara (born on 1 September 1983).
[2]
After her second divorce on 25 August 1987, she wed Prince Alexander in
Debenham
, Suffolk, on 14 March 1991. They had been introduced in 1986 by former
defence minister
Leon Mundeleer. Alexander asked her to accompany him to the cinema. She vacillated initially, but they began to enjoy dining out together, Alexander being a
gourmand
, according to his future wife.
[3]
The couple had no children together, and the marriage was kept secret until 1998, as reportedly the prince feared his mother would disapprove.
[3]
Published work
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In 2008, she published a book of photographs from the life of her husband and his family, titled
Le Prince Alexandre de Belgique
, because she felt that he was too little known in Belgium.
[3]
Notes
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Sources
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External links
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Media related to
Princess Lea of Belgium
at Wikimedia Commons
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princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld by marriage until 1826
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also a princess of Belgium by marriage
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also a
British princess
by marriage
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did not have a royal or noble title by birth
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