[1] Her grandfather was Franz, Count of Meran, who bought Schloss Stainz, a former monastery in Styria, where she was born.
[3]: 107 Her future husband, Eberhard Harnoncourt (1896–1970), born Graf de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt,[5] was an Austrian engineer working in Berlin.
[3]: 107 He travelled to Austria for the meeting in October 1928, and they were married on 29 December that year in the bishop's chapel in Graz.
[3]: 107 The family moved to Graz where he obtained a post in the state government (Landesregierung) of Styria.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt wrote a memoir of the family from the 13th century to the early 1950s,[3]: 5 which his wife Alice published after his death.