Archduke Anton of Austria, Prince of Tuscany

Who was Archduke Anton of Austria, Prince of Tuscany?

Archduke Anton of Austria Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, Prince of Tuscany;.

Anton was the seventh of ten children born to Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany and Infanta Blanca of Spain, daughter of Carlos, Duke of Madrid.

After being introduced by King Carol II of Romania, he and Princess Ileana of Romania were married in Sinaia on 26 July 1931.

They had the following children:

⁕Archduke Stefan of Austria, Prince of Tuscany

⁕Archduchess Maria Ileana of Austria, Princess of Tuscany

⁕Archduchess Alexandra of Austria, Princess of Tuscany

⁕Archduke Dominic of Austria, Prince of Tuscany

⁕Archduchess Maria Magdalena of Austria, Princess of Tuscany

⁕Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria, Princess of Tuscany

In the Second World War, he served until late 1944 in the German Wehrmacht as a pilot. After leaving the military, he moved to Törzburg, where he and his family lived in Schloss Bran. After the coup d'état, and the end of Romania's alliance with Germany on 23 August 1944, the family and their servants were in danger of being interned or thrown out of the country, as German citizens. It was only when Michael I abdicated on 30 December 1947 and was forced to leave the country, that Habsburg-Lorraine's family were exiled. The family spent time in Switzerland, then in Argentina, then lived in the early 1950s in the United States.