Beatrix, Countess of Schönburg-Glauchau

Countess Beatrix Maria Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsővidék was born in Hegykő, Kingdom of Hungary on 30 January 1930 to Count Bálint Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsővidék and Princess Marie "Maya" Pavlovna Galitzine.[1][2] She had three older sisters. Beatrix was a great-granddaughter of the Hungarian statesman Count István Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsővidék.[3][4] Her parents divorced in 1931, a year after her birth.

During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Beatrix and her family fled to Germany in order to escape the Communist regime.[4][5][6]

In 1957 she married Joachim, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau, a German journalist and head of the Glauchau branch of the comital Schönburg family.[4][6][7][8] Her husband's family's castles and estates in Saxony were seized by the Communist government during the Soviet Military Administration in Germany.[5] She and her husband had four children:[9]

• Countess Maya von Schönburg-Glauchau (1958–2019)
• Gloria, Princess of Thurn und Taxis (born 1960)
• Count Carl Alban von Schönburg-Glauchau (born 1966)
• Alexander, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau (born 1969)

After her husband accepted a journalist post in Africa, she and her family spent five years living in Togo and Somalia, returning to Germany in 1970.[10]

She and her husband divorced in 1986.

After suffering a fall at her apartment, she was taken to the Munich Municipal Clinic and underwent an operation.[6] She was later transferred to the Brothers of Mercy Hospital in Regensburg, where she died on 30 September 2021.[11][4][6] Her requiem mass took place on 6 November 2021 at the Kreuzkirche, Munich.[4][12][13] The mass was celebrated by Hungarian bishop János Székely.[14] Music for the ceremony was performed by opera singer Countess Christine Esterházy and the Fürstlichen Hofkapelle Thurn und Taxis.[14] She was buried at Nordfriedhof.[15]