Theirs was a romance that blossomed out of school-age friendship, however there have been various obstacles to be surmounted by Prince Henri of Luxembourg, inheritor to the principality, and his alternative of bride, Cuban beauty Maria Teresa Mestre y Batista. While different royal households in Europe have been embracing marriage to commoners, Prince Henri’s mother and father, Grand Duke Jean and Grand Duchess Josephine-Charlotte, have been nonetheless eager for his or her eldest son to marry a princess or somebody of noble beginning.
After Prince Henri informed his mother and father of his intentions to marry Maria Teresa, who would later change into Grand Duchess Maria Teresa, they have been reluctant to supply their assist – a lot in order that he supplied to surrender his proper to the throne. Clearly sensing he was critical about his paramour, they relented, and some weeks after the couple graduated from university in Geneva, and one day after he proposed, it was introduced that Prince Henri was engaged – regardless of the public having no concept he had a girlfriend.