Royal Profile: Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Leiningen

Ferdinand Heinrich Emich Christian Karl, Hereditary Prince of Leiningen was born 8 August 1982 as the eldest son of Princess Alexandra Irene of Hanover, Princess of Leiningen & Andreas, 8th Prince of Leiningen {Source}. He has two younger siblings and a sister-in-law{Source}:

  1. Princess Olga Margarita of Lieningen (1984)
  2. Prince Herman of Leiningen (1986)
    1. Isabelle Franziska Sophie Heubach (m. 2017)
      1. Prince Leopold Konstantin Rainer Andreas of Leiningen (2019)
He is currently Hereditary Prince of the House of Leiningen. He is a maternal nephew of Prince Ernest August of Hanover. He shares a birthday with Princess Beatrice of York & Timothy Taylor, son-in-law of The Duke and Duchess of Kent.

He married Viktoria Luise Prizessin von Preussen (that's right-Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia) in a civil ceremony in April 2017, and married religiously in September 2017 {Source}. They are both related to Queen Victoria as her distantly great grandchildren-him maternally through her eldest daughter Victoria, Princess Royal, and paternally as a greatx4 grandchild through Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Edinburgh, while Viktoria Luise is a great x3 granddaugher of Queen Victoria through Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha...meaning he and his wife are distantly cousins. Together, they have a daughter, Princess Alexandra Ehrengard of Leiningen, who was born in February 2020 and named for her grandmothers Princess Alexandra Irene and Ehrengard von Reden.

He was named:
    1. Ferdinand: Possibly a name his parents just liked
    2. Heinrich: Possibly his uncle, Prince Henrinich of Hanover (who could've been a godfather)
    3. Emich: For his great-grandfather, Emich Kyrill, Prince of Leiningen (who could've been a godfather)
      Christian: possibly a name his parents just liked. 
    4. Karl: his paternal uncle, Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen (who could possibly be a godfather)

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