Walburga Habsburg Douglas

Countess Walburga Douglas (née von Habsburg-Lothringen; born 5 October 1958) is a German-born Swedish lawyer and politician, who served as a member of the Riksdag of Sweden for the Moderate Party from 2006 to 2014.

Born in 1958 in Berg am Starnberger See, Germany, she is the fifth daughter of Otto von Habsburg, the last crown prince of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen.

Walburga was banished from the Republic of Austria from birth and well into adult life, along with her siblings, by the Habsburg Law that had been in effect since 1938, having been (re)imposed by the Nazis.

The Austrian Republic was forced to repeal the banishment of Walburga and her family, which was found to violate their human rights, as a precondition for admission to the European Union.

however, by law she holds the title of Countess Douglas in the Kingdom of Sweden, her current country of residence and citizenship.

She worked for the Ministry of Information of the Sultanate of Oman from 1985 to 1992, and in 2004 she became a member of the board of the Arab International Media Forum in London.

[5] This was the largest number of escapees since the Berlin Wall was built and is seen by many as one of the main symbols of the fall of Eastern European Communism.