Princess Martina Louisa of Brunant

Princess Martina Louisa (Martina Louisa Sophia Augusta Van Draak, 12 February 1891 - 19 September 1981) was a Brunanter princess. Born in Koningstad, she was the second daughter and the youngest child of King Pieter II and Queen Sophie.

First marriage
On 5 August 1913, the princess was married to Prince Umberto of Savoy-Aosta (1889-1918), who was styled the Count of Salemi. He was the youngest son of Prince Amadeo, Duke of Aosta, who was King of Spain for a brief period in the early 1870s, and his second wife Maria Letizia Bonaparte. The marriage was arranged by the fathers of Umberto and Martina Louisa. In October that year, her father the king was shot, and her brother Johan ascended the throne. Umberto volunteered to serve in the Royal Italian Army. He died a month before the end of the war of Spanish flu. The couple had no children.

Second marriage
In 1919, Martina Louisa married Prince Maximilian of Thurn and Taxis (1890-1955). He was a son of Prince Alexander Johann of Thurn and Taxis and his wife Princess Marie of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst. Maximilian and his elder brother Alexander were created Princes della Torre e Tasso by Victor Emmanuel III of Italy after relocating to the Kingdom of Italy in 1923. He adopted the name Massimo and his brother was created the first Duke of Castel Duino. It was Martina Louisa and her love for Italy that convinced Maximilian to move to Italy.

The couple had been trying to have children for years, but Martina was getting older and they were drifting apart. In 1926, however, their only child, Maria (1926-2001), was born. They moved to Florence in 1938 and Massimo was involved with the Italian Army in the late 1930s as an officer in the artillery before being captured at Lentini during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943. Following the war, Martina Louisa left her husband and moved with her daughter to Lovia, unable to obtain visas for the United States.

Lovia
A socialite in Noble City, she helped arrange for Maria to meet Prince George of Lovia in the early 1950s. They were eventually married in 1960. Martina Louisa lived in Lovia for twenty years, and she eventually returned to Italy in 1967, but moved to Brunant in 1969. She lived in a Koningstad mansion and was the only member of the Royal Family who stayed in contact with Silvia van Heerde, her supposed half-sister. Princess Martina Louisa died in 1981.