During the last weeks, I´m searching for info about the Congress of Vienna, and I must say that I´m fascinated about the private life of the great statesman and perhaps the most important diplomat of the time.
I know that he was married three times...the first marriage to Eleonore von Kaunitz was a great coup that opened for him the doors of the austrian court. His second wife was Antoinette von Leykam and the third, Melanie Zichy-Ferraris. I just have found a portrait of the first wife, Eleonore:
When Metternich married Eleonore, named Lorel, he was very fond of Marie-Constance de La Force. Anyone have info about this lady?
Well, Metternich was linked to some of the most beautiful and notorious woman of his time. I´m talking about Katharina, princess Bagration, mother of his daughter Clementine; Wilhelmine Biron, duchess of Sagan and, later, Dorothea Benkendorff, by marriage countess and princess of Lieven. During the Congress, Metternich and tsar Alexander I of Russia were rivals because the two man were linked to Katharina Bagration, the nacked angel or the russian andromeda, and also to Wilhelmine of Sagan. There are portraits of the three woman:
-Katharina Bagration
-Wilhelmine Biron of Sagan
-Dorothea of Lieven
The three shared their beds with Metternich. Katharina and Wilhelmine shared their beds, also, with Alexander I. And rumor has linked Katharina to count Carl Rudolf von Schulenburg, later third husband of Wilhelmine.
More info?
