Princess Renée de Merode, Countess d'Oultremont (25 May 1859, in Paris – 25 October 1941) was a Belgian aristocrat, who was married to the Court Grand Marshal of the King of Belgium.
During the First World War he was sent to Holzminden internment camp, and died following his return to Belgium.
She received permission from the Germans to visit the Allied wounded, together with other noble ladies.
[1] In the Palace of the Royal Academie she spent hours visiting, helping serious wounded soldiers and giving them religious comfortment.
After her death in 1941 the dowager Countess of Oultremont left a diary of more than 4000 pages.