Angela Gisela Brown was born on February 3, 1958, in Bocas Town, Bocas del Toro, Panama, to businessman Javier Francisco Brown and homemaker Silvia Maritza Burke.[2] The family moved to New York City, United States, when Angela was five years old.[4]
After finishing high school, Angela studied fashion at Parsons School of Design, where she received the Oscar de la Renta Gold Thimble Award and graduated in 1980.[4] She was a stylist for three years before partnered with a firm in Hong Kong to create her own fashion label named "A. Brown".[4][5] She became a creative director for the fashion brand Adrienne Vittadini, an American fashion house with a flagship in Beverly Hills at the time,[5] until September 1999.
The marriage brought a person of Afro-Panamanian ancestry into one of the remaining reigning families of Europe. The groom obtained prior consent and full support of the sovereign, who also attended the wedding.[3] She is the first African descent woman to ever marry into a reigning European dynasty.[5] While some members of the princely house were said to be shocked and to consider the interracial marriage and the eleven years age gap (with Angela being older than Prince Maximilian) "the end of an era", others were said to have expressed support.[4][7]
Prince Maximilian and Princess Angela have a son:
Prince Alfons Constantin Maria of Liechtenstein, Count of Rietberg (born on May 18, 2001, in London, United Kingdom).[3]
Since her marriage, Princess Angela participates, sometimes with her son, in ceremonial events in the principality.[citation needed] In 2006, Angela and her husband attended the wedding of Countess Elisabeth d'Udekem d'Acoz (sister of Queen Mathilde of Belgium) and Margrave Alfonso Pallavicini.[8] In 2015, Princess Angela gave an interview about Panama tourism.[9] She and her family also spent time in Pedasí, Panama.[10]
Angela became a princess of Liechtenstein and Countess of Rietberg upon her marriage to Prince Maximilian, entitled to the style of Serene Highness. She also bears the coat of arms of the princely house.[13]
^Stoute, Valerie (28 March 2017). "Nido de amor millonario" [Millionaire Love Nest]. Panamá América (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 8 July 2022. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
^ abcGenealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser XVI. "Liechtenstein". C.A. Starke Verlag, 2001, pp. 52-54. ISBN3-7980-0824-8.
^ abcdde Badts de Cugnac, Chantal. Coutant de Saisseval, Guy. Le Petit Gotha. Nouvelle Imprimerie Laballery, Paris 2002, pp. 632-634, 654-655 (French) ISBN2-9507974-3-1