Marie Festetics

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Countess Marie Festetics von Tolna (20 October 1839 – 16 April 1923), was an Austro-Hungarian countess, diarist and lady-in-waiting.

Countess Mária Terézia was born in Tolna, Kingdom of Hungary, into the collateral branch of an old and distinguished House of Festetics, as the fifth child and fourth daughter of Count Sandor Festetics von Tolna (1805–1877) and his wife, Baroness Josephine von Boxberg (1811–1892).^[1] Her sibling were: Countess Ilona (1830-1843), Countess Adél (1833-1879), Count Károly (1836-1879), Countess Matild (1838-1870) and Count Viktor (1840-1884).

She served as lady-in-waiting to Empress Elisabeth of Austria from 1870, and became one of the favorites and confidantes of the Empress. She was also a noted diarist and her diaries are regarded as an important source of the Imperial Austrian court.

Countess Marie died on 16 April 1923 at the age of 83 in Festetics castle, her family estate in Söjtör, Zala County, Kingdom of Hungary.^[2]

• Gudula Walterskirchen, Beatrix Meyer (Hrsg.): Das Tagebuch der Gräfin Marie Festetics. Kaiserin Elisabeths intimste Freundin. Residenz-Verl. St. Pölten 2014, ISBN 978-3-7017-3338-5.
• Beatrix Meyer: Kaiserin Elisabeth und ihr Ungarn. Allitera. München 2019, ISBN 978-3-96233-130-6.

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