Charlotte Tiedemann
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| Duchess of Segovia and Anjou | |||||
 Charlotte in 1979, shortly before her death | |||||
| Consort of the Legitimist pretender to the French throne | |||||
| Pretence | 1949 – 1975 | ||||
| Born | 2 January 1919 Königsberg, Weimar Republic | ||||
| Died | 3 July 1979 (aged 60) West Berlin, West Germany | ||||
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| Issue | Helga Hippler | ||||
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| House | Bourbon (by marriage) | ||||
| Father | Otto Tiedemann | ||||
| Mother | Luise Klein | ||||
| Occupation | singer, actress | ||||
Charlotte Luise Auguste Tiedemann (2 January 1919 – 3 July 1979) was a German opera singer, actress, and the second wife of Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia.
Early life
[edit]Tiedemann was born on 2 January 1919 in Königsberg, Germany (now part of Russia) to Otto Eugen Tiedemann and Luise Amalia Klein.[1]
Career
[edit]She performed as a mezzo-soprano in Berlin.[2] There were rumors that she had been a Nazi spy during her marriage.[2] She worked with the operetta librettist Heinz Hentschke, who was a cultural official in Nazi Germany.[2]
Tiedemann moved to Rome in 1944 to work for a radio program for German soldiers fighting in World War II.[2]
She signed a contract with German film studio UFA and worked on the film Titanic and appeared in Italian cinema using the stage name Micaela Carlotta.[2]
Marriages
[edit]She married, firstly, to the German sound engineer Franz Büchler, with whom she had a daughter, Helga.[2] She married a second time to the German filmmaker Fritz Hippler, who was a colleague of Nazi official Joseph Goebbels.[2] Hippler legally adopted her daughter.[2] Tiedemann's husband directed the film The Eternal Jew, a documentary that summarized anti-Semetic ideology in Nazism.[2] She accompanied her husband to the home of Adolf Hitler.[2] She and Hippler later divorced.
In 1947, while in Rome, she met Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, the son of the king of Spain, at Il Faro restaurant.[2] On 3 August 1949, she married Infante Jaime in a civil ceremony in Innsbruck, Austria.[1][3] Her husband was the Legitimist pretender to the former French throne.[3]
Her husband had obtained a divorce from his first wife, Emmanuelle de Dampierre, that was recognized in Italy but not in France, Spain, or the Vatican.[1] The Spanish royal family refused to recognize the marriage and banned Tiedemann from attending any family events.[2] She used the title Duchess of Segovia, but the Spanish monarchy refused to grant her the title, instead recognizing Infante Jaime's first wife as the duchess.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Milestones, Aug. 15, 1949". Time. 15 August 1949. Archived from the original on 20 December 2008. Retrieved 2011-05-25.
Married. Don Jaime, 41, Duke of Segovia, second son and onetime heir apparent of ex-King Alfonso XIII of Spain (deposed 1931, died in exile 1941), who renounced his claim to the throne in 1933; and Charlotte Tiedemann, German opera singer; in Innsbruck, Austria. Born a deaf mute into a family racked by the "Bourbon curse" of hemophilia, Don Jaime learned to talk intelligibly in three languages, remains healthy.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Lapeña, Silvia Cruz (January 24, 2021). "Artista, divorciada y alemana: la fascinante historia de Charlotte Tiedemann, la actriz que pudo ser reina de España". Vanity Fair.
- ^ a b "Don Jaime de Bourbon Weds". The New York Times. August 4, 1949. p. 21.
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