Today, Fürst Alois-Konstantin zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg celebrates his eightieth birthday!
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| Fürst Alois, Hereditary Prince Karl and Hereditary Princess Carolina, and Fürstin Josephine, 1935. |
Born on 16 December 1941 at Würzburg, Prince Alois-Konstantin Karl Eduard Joseph Johann Konrad Antonius Gerhard Georg Benediktus Pius Eusebius Maria zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg was the fifth child and first son of Hereditary Prince Karl zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1904-1990) and his wife Carolina dei Conti Rignon (1904-1975), who married in 1935. Alois-Konstantin's father succeeded his grandfather Alois as Fürst zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg in 1952 upon Alois's death. Aloys-Konstantin has six sisters: Princess Maria (b.1935; married Archduke Joseph of Austria), Princess Josephine (b.1937; married Prince Alexander of Liechtenstein), Princess Monika (b.1939; married Don Jaime Mendez de Vigo y del Arco), Princess Christiane (b.1940; married Archduke Michael of Austria), Princess Elisabeth (b.1944; married José Maria Trénor y Suarez de Lezo, Marchese de Cerdanyola), and Princess Lioba (b.1946; married Fürst Moritz Eugen zu Oettingen-Oettingen und Oettingen-Wallerstein).
In 1965, Hereditary Prince Alois-Konstantin married Princess Anastasia of Prussia (b.1944), the eldest and only surviving daughter of Prince Hubertus of Prussia and his wife Princess Madgalene (née Reuß). Alois-Konstantin and Anastasia have four children: Hereditary Prince Carl Friedrich (1966-2010; married Baroness Stephanie von Brenken), Prince Hubertus (b.1968; married Baroness Iris von Dörnberg), Princess Christina (b.1974; m. Guido von Rohr), and Prince Dominik (b.1983; married Countess Olga zu Castell-Rüdenhausen). Fürst Alois-Konstantin and Fürstin Anastasia have nine grandchildren.
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| Alois-Konstantin and Anastasia. |
Our best wishes to the Fürst on his birthday!
