Alžbeta Brezáková

Alžbeta Brezáková (1921 – 24 April 2015) was a Slovak nurse and the third wife of Ferdinand I of Bulgaria. The daughter of a castellan employed by the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, she served as a royal nanny and as personal assistant to the deposed Tsar Ferdinand while he lived in exile in Germany. They were secretly married in 1947. She was sixty years younger than her husband and was the first Slovak and the first commoner to marry into the Bulgarian royal family. The validity of their morganatic marriage was questioned by Slovak writer Anton Hykisch, whose family was also employed by the Tsar.

Alžbeta Brezáková
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Born1921
Coburg, Bavaria, Germany
Died24 April 2015 (aged 9394)
Bratislava, Slovakia
SpouseFerdinand I of Bulgaria
HouseSaxe-Coburg-Gotha-Koháry (by marriage)
FatherJuraj Brezák
MotherAnna Brezáková
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