June 1954 in Newton, Massachusetts, she married Dr. Stefan Nikolas Issarescu. Her second marriage ended in divorce (without issue) in 1965. In 1961, Ileana entered the Orthodox Monastery of Our Lady of All Protection/ Notre Dame de Toute Protection, in Bussy-en-Othe, France. On her tonsuring as a monastic, in 1967, Sister Ileana was given the name Mother Alexandra. She moved back to the United States and founded the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, the first English language Orthodox monastery in North America. She was the third female descendant of Queen Victoria to become a Mother Superior in a convent of her own foundation along with Princess Alice of Battenberg and Princess Elisabeth of Hesse. She served as abbess until her retirement in 1981, remaining at the monastery until her death. She visited Romania again in 1990, at the age of 81, in the company of her daughter, Sandi. In January 1991, she suffered a broken hip in a fall on the evening before her eighty-second birthday, and while in hospital, suffered two major heart attacks. She died four days after the foundations had been laid for the expansion of the monastery. Archives Princess Ileana's personal papers (including family correspondence and photographs) are preserved in the "Queen Marie of Romania Papers" collection in the Library of Kent State University (Kent, Ohio, USA), and also in the "Mother Alexandra Papers" collection in the Hoover Institution Archives (Stanford, California, USA). In addition, Ileana's correspondence with the Romanian diplomat George I. Duca between 1924 and 1985 is preserved in the "George I. Duca Papers" collection in the Hoover Institution Archives (Stanford, California, USA). Family Issue Ileana and Anton had six children; they were raised in the Roman Catholic faith of her husband and of the country: Archduke Stefan of Austria (5 August 1932 – 12 November 1998); married morganatically Mary Jerrine Soper (19 June 1931 – 14 July 2015), and had five children, who received in 1990 the title of Count/Countess von Habsburg for them and their descendants in the male line: Christopher Habsburg-Lothringen (born 26 January 1957). Ileana Habsburg-Lothringen (born 4 January 1958). Peter Habsburg-Lothringen (born 19 February 1959). Constanza Habsburg-Lothringen (born 2 October 1960) Anton Habsburg-Lothringen (born 7 November 1964) Archduchess Maria Ileana of Austria (Minola) (18 December 1933 – 11 January 1959); married Count Jaroslaw Kottulinsky, Baron von Kottulin (3 January 1917 – 11 January 1959) (both