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Press Release HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUCHESS MARIA TERESA OF LUXEMBOURG TO
RECEIVE THE 2006 PATH TO PEACE AWARD On 13 June 2006 the Path to Peace Foundation will bestow the 2006 Path to Peace Award to Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg.
Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, and President of the Path to Peace Foundation, announced that the Grand Duchess has been unanimously selected to receive the Award by the Board of the Path to Peace Foundation, an agency established to carry out the projects to support the work of the Holy See Mission to the United Nations.
H.R.H. the Grand Duchess Maria Teresa was born in Havana, Cuba. During the Cuban revolution, her family left the country and settled in New York, where, as a young girl, she attended Marymount School and the Lycée Français de New York.
In 1965, she and her family took up permanent residence in Geneva, Switzerland. Miss Mestre first continued her studies at the Institut Marie-José at Gstaad, then at the boarding school Marie-Thérèse in Geneva, where she successfully passed the French General Certificate of Education in 1975.
In 1980, she graduated from the University of Geneva with a degree in political science. Miss Mestre met Prince Henri of Luxembourg while at the University. They married on 14 February 1981, and have five children.
Since 1997, the Grand Duchess serves as a Good-Will Ambassador of UNESCO and supports organizations which are active in the field of micro-credits and child protection. She also has a deep concern for the social situation in her country, dedicating her efforts mainly to children and families in danger, to the social integration of persons who are physically, mentally or socially impaired, and to gender related issues.
It is in recognition of her exemplary charitable works that the Path to Peace Foundation honors Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg with the 2006 Path to Peace Award, which will be presented at a Gala Dinner held by the Foundation at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
New York, 5 June 2006
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