IslandDweller
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I hope it's okay that I've taken the liberty of starting a thread on Stephanie's family. Her sister-in-law Beatrice Spates - wife of her eldest brother Jehan - has a varied lineage. She was born in 1968 in Washington DC to Alfred Waters Spates of Maryland USA and Belgian aristocrat Marie Renée Kneppelhout van Sterkenberg.
She was raised, it seems, in her father's country. Here is an article on a house her father inherited in Germantown, Maryland, though I don't believe this was her childhood home. Her father and grandfather were evidently lawyers.
Her mother was her father's third wife, and she had half-siblings who were decades older. It seems she has some very modest relatives. When her half-brother Robert died following a car crash in Wisconsin in 2009 at age 76, his obituary described him as a "lifelong dairy farmer, an avid coon hunter, and outdoorsman".
Another of Stephanie's sisters-in-law, Alice van Havre (wife of her brother Olivier), has been given the title of jonkvrouw by at least one source. I think that the Moreno-Isla de Porras-Fdez family of her sister-in-law Luisa (her brother Christian's wife) and the de le Court family of her sister Isabelle's husband are also aristocratic. The family of Stephanie's brother-in-law John Hamilton is a mystery to me.
Perhaps Stephanie will have family close to her in Luxembourg. Her brother-in-law, Jean-Charles de le Court, is, according to a website, managing director of Della Lux consulting services with a business address in Luxembourg. I guess Isabelle de le Court has already been living in her sister's new adopted country?
She was raised, it seems, in her father's country. Here is an article on a house her father inherited in Germantown, Maryland, though I don't believe this was her childhood home. Her father and grandfather were evidently lawyers.
Her mother was her father's third wife, and she had half-siblings who were decades older. It seems she has some very modest relatives. When her half-brother Robert died following a car crash in Wisconsin in 2009 at age 76, his obituary described him as a "lifelong dairy farmer, an avid coon hunter, and outdoorsman".
Another of Stephanie's sisters-in-law, Alice van Havre (wife of her brother Olivier), has been given the title of jonkvrouw by at least one source. I think that the Moreno-Isla de Porras-Fdez family of her sister-in-law Luisa (her brother Christian's wife) and the de le Court family of her sister Isabelle's husband are also aristocratic. The family of Stephanie's brother-in-law John Hamilton is a mystery to me.
Perhaps Stephanie will have family close to her in Luxembourg. Her brother-in-law, Jean-Charles de le Court, is, according to a website, managing director of Della Lux consulting services with a business address in Luxembourg. I guess Isabelle de le Court has already been living in her sister's new adopted country?
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