- Her father is a German Baron, Hermann Freiherr von Pfetten (b. Ramspau 8 Mar 1933), who grew up in a castle in Germany, Schloss Ramspau. Her mother is his third wife Heidrun Reel (b. Weimar, 8 Feb 1942).
- Upon graduating from High School, she moved to Vienna, Vienna, Austria, then to Munich, Upper-Bavaria, Bavaria, where she studied Art History and interned at Sotheby's.
- Her German name translates to "Stefanie of Purlins" in English. A purlin is a horizontal beam running the length of a roof and supporting the top rafters of the roof.
- Born in Vancouver, Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada.
- Her parents are originally from Munich.
- Her great-great-great-grandmother was of Italian descent.
- Has an older sister, Gabriela Marie-Elisabeth Baroness von Pfetten (b. Vancouver, 1 Feb 1970), and a younger sister, Verena Alexandra Doraya Baroness von Pfetten (b. Vancouver, 28 May 1983).
- Her great-great-great-grandmother Caroline Albertine Marie Adolphine Gräfin von Einsiedel was a great-great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Painter Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez and a descendant through illegitimate lines twice and twice of a first cousin of Ferdinand V the Catholic, King Consort of the Crown of Castile, King of the Crown of Aragon, King of Sicily, King of Sardinia, King of Naples (father of Catherine of Aragon), and Peter I Biron, Sovereign Duke of Kurland and Semgallen, 1st Duke of Sagan, Silesia, Prussia, and perhaps a descendant of Ernest Augustus I, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (descendant of a paternal aunt of Anne of Cleves).
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