Alice Habsburg

Alice Habsburg, Princess of Altenburg (; 18 December 1889 – 26 November 1985) was a Swedish-born aristocrat and member of the Polish Home Army during World War II.

Early life and first marriage

Born in Hölö, Sweden as Alice Elisabeth Ankarcrona, member of the Ankarcrona family, which belonged to Swedish nobility of German origin. She was younger daughter of Oscar Carl Gustav Ankarcrona and his wife, Anna Elisabeth Aurora Carleson (b. 1867), daughter of Edvard Henrik Carleson (1820–1912), Councilor of State of the Kingdom of Sweden. She grew up in Sweden. In 1911, she married Count Ludwik Badeni (1873-1916), a diplomat working at the Austro-Hungarian legation in Stockholm. He was the son of Count Kasimir Felix Badeni, Minister-President of Cisleithania. During their engagement, she converted to Catholicism. The couple had a single son, Kasimir Stanislaw Badeni (1912–2010), who later became a member of the Dominican Order. Shortly after his son's birth, Count Ludwik Badeni started to suffer from mental illness and was taken to a mental hospital. He died in 1916.

Her son Kasimir inherited his father's palace and an estate in Busk, today in Ukraine. Alice was shocked by the poverty in Austrian Galicia and sold off most of her jewelry to invest in welfare and economic improvements at her Busk estates. At the end of World War I she was in Vienna. In the background of the disintegrating Austro-Hungarian state she witnessed first-hand the Polish–Ukrainian War and the Battle of Lwów, where she was impressed by the Polish Lwów Eaglets, and then rejoined her son at Busk which had been looted by Cossacks and Ukrainian peasants. married in Stockholm on 26 June 1957 Spanish nobleman and a diplomat Eduardo de Zulueta y Dato (Paris, France, 4 December 1923 – 28 July 2020), and had issue.