Royal Profile: Prince Ernest-August V of Hanover

Prince Ernst August Albert Paul Otto Rupprecht Oskar Berthold Friedrich-Ferdinand Christian-Ludwig of Hanover was born on 26 February 1954 as the eldest son of Ernst August, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick (1914-1987) and his first wife, Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1925-1980) {Source}. He has one older sister, two younger brothers and two younger sisters {Source}:

1. Princess Marie of Hanover, Countess von Houchberg (1952)
1. Count Michael von Houchburg (m. 1982)
1. Count Conrad Hans-Heinrich Ernst-August von Hochberg(1985)
2. Count George von Hochberg (1987)
2. Prince Lugwig of Hanover (1955-1988)
1. Isabella Gräfin von Thurn und Valsássina-Como-Vercelli (m. 1987, d. 1988)
1. Prince Otto of Hanover (1988)
3. Princess Olga of Hanover (1958)
4. Princess Alexandra of Hanover, Princess of Leiningen (1959)
1. Andreas, 8th Prince of Lieningen (m 1981)
1. Prince Ferdinand Heinrich, Hereditary Prince of Lieningen (1982)
1. Princess Viktoria-Luise of Prussia (m. 2017)
2. Princess Olga Margarita of Lieningen (1984)
3. Prince Herman of Leiningen (1986)
1. Isabelle Franziska Sophie Heubach (m. 2017)
5. Prince Heinrich of Hanover (1961)
1. Thyra Donata Sixtina (m 1999)
1. Prince Albert of Hanover (1999)
2. Princess Eugenia of Hanover (2001)
3. Prince Julius of Hanover (2004)

He has been married twice. He was married to Chantal Hochuli from 1981-1997, producing two sons, two daughters-in-law and a granddaughter, and a soon-to-be grandson {Source}:

1. Prince Ernest August of Hanover (1983)
1. Ekaterina Malysheva (m. 2017)
1. Princess Elisabeth Tatiana Maximiliana Iacobella Faiza of Hanover (2018){Source}
2. Prince XXX of Hanover (2019)
2. Prince Christian of Hanover (1985)
3. Alessandra de Osma (civilly in November 2017, religiously in March 2018)

He married secondly to Princess Caroline of Monaco on 23 January 1999, together, they have one daughter{Source}:

• Princess Alexandra Charlotte Ulrike Marym Virginia of Hanover (1999)

It is rumored (but has never been confirmed) that Prince Ernest and Princess Caroline separated when she moved back to Monaco. They have not been seen together publicly since 2009, however, his sons from his first marriage have been seen with her.

The prince is not without controversy! He was photographed urinating on the Turkish Pavilion at the Expo 2000 event in Hanover, causing a diplomatic incident and a complaint from the Turkish embassy accusing him of insulting the Turkish people. He successfully sued those who published (Bild-Zeitung) the photograph for invasion of privacy, obtaining an award of 9,900 euros, although the paper had previously published a photo of Ernst August urinating outside a hospital in Austria. In 2004, he was convicted of aggravated assault and causing grievous bodily harm after beating a man with a knuckleduster{Source}