Friday, January 14, 2011

Spotlight On: The One Always With Louis

HRH Princess Tessy of Luxembourg was born Mlle. Tessy Antony on October 28, 1985. Much has been made of Her working-class upbringing, though just as Her so-called “fairytale” twist should not be the sole defining notation of this young life, neither should Her beginning “rank” in it.

Very little is known about The Princess’ formative years, though it has become circulated knowledge that a completed education at a Pétange -based technical high school was the forerunner to an impressive military career; at the tender age of 18 She followed Her brother into enlisted ranks, rising remarkably to the rank of NCO as a corporal driver after only two years of service, as opposed to the standard three. These efforts saw Her to Yugoslavia, as part of NATO’s Kosovo-based peacekeeping forces.

Of course, it’s no secret how a certain prince’s visit to this band of troops resulted for Mlle. Antony: A little over two years after this mission saw not a soldier redistributing Her comrades throughout potentially fragile territories, but a radiant bride and besotted new mother, greeting crowds of Her well-wishing countrymen as Madame de Nassau, the newest member of Luxembourg’s ruling family. It's no secret because, well, that's all anyone ever attributes to Her. Why should anything else be said? After all, She's only an animal-rights and physical fitness advocating, multilingual, university-attending, full-time wife/mother/daughter/sister/cousin/friend whose soul achievement in life lies on the third finger of Her left hand. Heaven forbid She should remove the ring for any reason - She might disappear altogether!

More power to you, Your Royal Highness - the varied and layered aspects of Your 25 years have not gone unwarranted by all. Who knows? Maybe by Your 10th wedding anniversary, the Monarchy's official website will have upgraded your official bio to FOUR whole lines! Eh, on second thought, perhaps You should just bookmark this one...

11 comments:

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  2. Why you so nasty, anonymous? Do you know her to call her in this way? Maybe we didn't know sth inportant about Tessy.

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  3. I found this very interesting - thank you for turning the spotlight on Princess Tessy.

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  4. I saw you post, read their profile and was annoyed as well. I put together the next in my series of royal profiles about them as a couple, hopefully with more light on Tessy and what she is has done/will do. Thanks for the inspiration!

    http://www.examiner.com/royal-news-in-national/royal-couples-101-prince-louis-and-princess-tessy-of-luxembourg

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  5. Thank you all for your awesome comments! I'm glad to see HRH getting some respect, even if it's not from the Court. :-/

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  6. Glad to see you liked my piece. I'm a regular visitor to your blog and enjoy it very much. Keep up the good work!!
    Megan

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  7. Thanks! I've been really lazy lately about updating. I feel guilty.

    I can't take all the credit Lily wrote this piece. All of her work on the blog is awesome, IMHO.

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  8. Tessy and her husband have had a hard start as a couple - and they could have spared themselves a lot of negative publicity by quietly and discreetly getting an abortion when they became pregnant. They didn't, they faced dealt with the shaming and criticizing and that's impressive.

    Susan

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  9. hola; susan estoy en acuerdo con tigo sobre tu opinion; pro puede ser que tessy se haya quedado embarazada apropisito,por el buen partido de novio que tenia, principe luis es rico, y ademas tiene titulos (cosa q actualmente ya ellla consiguio; por su suegro y suegra la consedieron el titulo de princesa).
    uno no conoce a las personas; no sabemos como piensan asi hay q aceptar todo los puntos de vista que uno puede avaragar.

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