Empress Elisabeth visited her daughter shortly after delivery.

Her mother gave her the hunting lodge Kühtai in Austria as a wedding gift in 1917; it having been acquired in 1893 by Emperor Franz Joseph and bequeathed to Marie Valerie.

Hedwig married on 24 April 1918 to Count Bernhard of Stolberg-Stolberg[citation needed] (1881–1952), a son of Count Leopold of Stolberg-Stolberg and Scottish heiress Mary Eddington (daughter of Colonel Smollett Montgomerie Eddington, JP, DL, of Glencreggan House, Kintyre, Argyllshire).

[1] They married at the castle of Wallsee, owned by the bridegroom's father.

Hedwig died on 1 November 1970 aged 74 in Hall in Tyrol.