Carlo Alessandro, 3rd Duke of Castel Duino

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Prince Carlo Alessandro della Torre e Tasso, 3rd Duke of Castel Duino (born 10 February 1952) is the current head of the Castel Duino branch of the House of Thurn and Taxis.[1]

Family

Carlo Alessandro is the only child of Raimundo, 2nd Duke of Castel Duino and his wife Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark. He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.[2]

He is a maternal second cousin of Charles III, King of the United Kingdom, through their shared great-grandparents, King George I and Queen Olga of Greece, born a Grand Duchess of Russia.

Marriage and issue

Carlo Alessandro married Veronique Lantz, daughter of Gérard Lantz and Monique Rachet, on 10 February 1976 in Saint-Tropez, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.[2] They have three children:

  • Prince Dimitri della Torre e Tasso (born 24 November 1977)[3] m. 2017 Jonkvrouw Elinor de Pret Roose de Calesberg (b. 1981)[4]
  • Prince Maximilian della Torre e Tasso (born 22 May 1979)
  • Princess Constanza della Torre e Tasso (born 7 August 1989)

Carlo Alessandro and his family currently reside at Duino Castle in the Province of Trieste, Italy.

Ancestry

References

  1. 1.Genealogy of della Torre e Tasso in: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels volume 85 (1984).
  2. 2.[2.2]Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, ed. (1977). Burke's Royal Families of the World. Vol. 1. London: Burke's Peerage. p. 325.
  3. 3.Trivia: when Barbara Berlusconi, the daughter of Silvio, made her début in 2001 at the Bal des débutantes in Paris, Dimitri was her cavalier.
  4. 4.Descendants of King Christian IX of Denmark