Alexander, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe

Infobox_pretender
English name = Alexander


birth_date = Birth date and age|1958|12|25|df=y
birthplace = Düsseldorf
death_date =
deathplace =
regnal =
title = Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
throne = Schaumburg-Lippe
pretend from = 28 August 2003
year = 1918
king = Adolf II
relationship = Grand Nephew
house = Lippe
father = Prince Philipp-Ernst
mother = Eva-Benita von Tiele-Winckler
spouse = Nadja Anna Zsoeks
children =
predecessor = Prince Philipp-Ernst
successor =
footnotes =

Alexander, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (Ernst August Alexander Christian Viktor Hubert) (born 25 December 1958) is the head of the Princely House of Schaumburg-Lippe.

Biography

He was born in Düsseldorf, the second son of Prince Philipp-Ernst and his wife Eva-Benita Freiin von Tiele-Winckler (born 1927). At the time of his grandfather Prince Wolrad's death on 15 June 1962, Alexander was unlikely to succeed to the headship of the Princely house. However following the death of his older brother Hereditary Prince Georg-Wilhelm in a motor cycle accident on 31 July 1983 [ [http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Schaumburg_Lippe_Royal_Family.htm Monarchies of Europe] ] , Alexander became the heir apparent and new Hereditary Prince. He succeeded as head of the Princely house following his father's death on 28 August 2003.

Marriage and children

Alexander was married to Princess Marie Luise of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (born 1972) at Bückeburg on 27 August 1993; they had one son before divorcing in 2002.

*Ernst-August Alexander Wilhelm Bernhard Krafft "Heinrich-Donatus", Hereditary Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (born 13 May, 1994)

Alexander married Dr Nadja Anna Zsoeks (born 20 February 1975) in a civil ceremony at Bückeburg on June 28, 2007 with a religious ceremony taking place at Bückeburg two days later June 30. [ [http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/s-lippe.html Online Gotha] ]

It was announced in June 2008 that Alexander and Nadja Anna are expecting their first child together, to be born at the end of the year. [ [http://www.ardtext.de/videotext/index.html?tafel=506 ARD-Text.de - Teletext im Ersten ] ]

External links

* [http://www.schloss-bueckeburg.de/ Schloss Bückeburg] de icon
* [http://worldroots.com/brigitte/royal/alexanderschaumburg1958album.htm Photos of Alexander, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe]

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