People of Courage: Princess Angela of Liechtenstein

Abstract

The transition of African American actress Meghan Markle to Duchess of Sussex in 2019 brought about by her marriage to Prince Harry, a member of the British royal family, overshadowed the earlier occurrence of the first person of African descent to marry into European royalty in the modern era: that of Angela Gisela Brown to Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein. Born February 3, 1958 in Boca del Toro, Panama, Angela was the daughter of businessman Javier Francisco Brown and Silvia Maritza Burke, a homemaker.