Archduke Benedikt-Arthur of Austria

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Archduke Benedikt-Arthur of Austria (born June 21, 1868 - died September 1942) was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, He was the husband of Princess Victoria of Sussex; a daughter of Prince Alexander, Duke of Sussex and Lady Hannah Leighton, His elder brother. Archduke Charles August of Austria, was married to Grand Duchess Matryosha Mikhailovna of Russia three years after his marriage to Victoria of Sussex, His marriage to the British princess was believed to be a happy wedding; He fathered a son and four daughters during his marriage until his death in 1942 when Princess Victoria (Archduchess Benedikt-Arthur) was widowed after he died during World War II.

Early life
Archduke Benedikt-Arthur was born in Vienna, on the day of June 21, 1868, The second child and second son of Archduke Matthias Friedrich Karl of Austria (1835-1908) and his wife Princess Mathilde of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1837-1911), At the time of his birth in 1868, His father's cousin Franz Joseph I was the reigning monarch of Austria-Hungary. He was the half-grandnephew of the reigning Queen of the United Kingdom, Victoria towards his mother, caused him to marry his half-grandaunt's granddaughter Princess Victoria of Sussex in his adulthood, after the Archduke himself learned that he was a maternal relative of the British queen.