Family
In 1999, Sigismund married Elyssa Edmonstone (born Glasgow, 11 September 1973), the only daughter of Sir Archibald Bruce Edmonstone, of Duntreath, 7th Baronet by his second wife Juliet Elizabeth Deakin. [5] Archduchess Elyssa is a great-great-granddaughter of Marshall Field and a third cousin of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. The Edmonstone family is an old Scottish family that was raised to a baronetcy in 1774; their best-known member was the royal mistress Alice Keppel. Through this family connection, Elyssa and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall are third cousins. The couple are divorced since 25 June 2013, with annulment in 2016. [6]
The couple have three children: [3]
- Leopold Amedeo Peter Ferdinand Archibald (born 9 May 2001 in Glasgow)
- Tatyana Maria Theresia Laetitia Juliet (born 3 March 2003 in Livingston)
- Maximilian Stefano Sigismund William Bruce Erik Leopold (born 27 May 2004 in Livingston)
Sigismund lives with his family in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2017, the renunciation of French citizenship (obtained by his ancestors and held by their descendants since loss of the Tuscan throne) was legally recorded for him and his children. [7]
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