Tatiana Galitzine

Princess Tatiana Petrovna Galitzine (born 16 August 1984) is an American architect.

Princess Tatiana
Born16 August 1984
Santa Clara, California,
United States
SpouseGuillermo Sierra y Uribe
IssueKonstantin Nicholas Sierra
HouseGolitsyn
FatherPrince Peter Galitzine
MotherArchduchess Maria Anna von Habsburg
Occupationarchitect

Biography

Princess Tatiana was born on 16 August 1984 in Santa Clara, California. She is the second of six children of Prince Peter Galitzine and Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria.[1][2] She is a member of the House of Golitsyn, a Russian noble family with Lithuanian ancestry. Her mother, the daughter of Archduke Rudolf of Austria and Countess Xenia Czernichev-Besobrasov, is a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.[1] Princess Tatiana is a great-granddaughter of Charles I and Zita of Bourbon-Parma, the last Emperor and Empress of Austria.[3][1] She was an older sister of Princess Maria Galitzine.[4]

She grew up in Luxembourg, Russia, and the United States. In 2011 she visited Austria to attend the funeral of her granduncle Otto von Habsburg, the last Crown Prince of Austria.[2] She moved from San Francisco, where she was working for Andrew Skurman Architect, to Houston to work at the architectural firm Gensler.[3][1][2] In 2017 she founded her own company, Tatiermo Design Firm.[3]

Princess Tatiana married Guillermo Sierra y Uribe, a Mexian-American investment banker, on 29 April 2017 in a Russian Orthodox ceremony at the Colegio de San Ignacio de Loyola Vizcaínas in Mexico City.[3][1] The wedding was attended by Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Princess Theresa of Liechtenstein, and Simeon von Habsburg.[1] On 1 October 2019 she gave birth to a son, Konstantin Nicholas Sierra. They live in Houston.[5]

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References
  1. "Houston's Own Royal Princess Gets Married in a Dreamy Mexico City Wedding: Engaged After Just Six Weeks, Couple Enjoys a Fairytale Day". PaperCity Magazine. February 12, 2018.
  2. "The Royal Among Us: A Real-Life Princess Quietly Lives a Glamorous Life in Houston — No Wild-Child Antics Allowed". PaperCity Magazine. June 8, 2016.
  3. Cowen, Diane (February 13, 2018). "A wedding fit for a princess -- Houston's princess, that is". Houston Chronicle.
  4. Reed, Anika. "Austrian Princess Maria Galitzine dies at 31 from sudden cardiac aneurysm". USA TODAY.
  5. "Houston's princess and her husband live quietly in Houston, surrounded by art and charitable causes". HoustonChronicle.com. February 28, 2018.
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