Prince Otto Heinrich of Hanover

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name = Prince Otto Heinrich
title = Prince Otto Heinrich of Hanover


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royal house = House of Hanover
full name = Otto Henry Aripand George John Ernest Augustus Vincent Egmont Francis
" _de. Otto Heinrich Aripand George Johannes Ernst August Vinzenz Egmont Franz"cite web | url=http://thepeerage.com/p10169.htm#i101685| title=Otto Hanover , Prince of Hanover | date=10 May 2003 | accessdate=2008-08-18 | publisher= [http://thePeerage.com thePeerage.com] | author=Darryl Lundy] cite web | url=http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/hannover.html| title=HANNOVER | date= | accessdate=2008-07-21 | publisher=Paul Theroff's Royal Genealogy Site | author=Paul Theroff]
titles = "HRH" Prince Otto Heinrich of Hanover
father = Prince Ludwig Rudolph of Hanover
mother = Countess Isabelle of Thurn and Valsassina-Como-Vercelli
date of birth = Birth date and age|1988|2|13|df=yes
place of birth = flagicon|Austria Gmunden, Upper Austria, Austria
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Prince Otto Heinrich of Hanover (Full name: "Otto Heinrich Aripand George Johannes Ernst August Vinzenz Egmont Franz"), Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg; German: "Otto Heinrich Prinz von Hannover, Prinz von Großbritannien und Irland, Herzog zu Braunschweig-Lüneburg") (born on 13 February 1988 in Gmunden, Upper Austria, Austria) was the only child of music producer Prince Ludwig Rudolph of Hanover and his wife, former fashion model Countess Isabelle of Thurn and Valsassina-Como-Vercelli. The prince is a direct male-line descendant of George III of the United Kingdom and is a descendant of Victoria of the United Kingdom and Albert, Prince Consort through his great-grandmother, Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia.

Life

Otto Heinrich's mother, Princess Isabelle, died of a cocaine overdose on 29 November 1988cite web | url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20119303,00.html| title=Death Turns Out the Lights at a Noble Couple's Last Soiree | date=9 January 1989 | accessdate=2008-07-21 | publisher=People Weekly | author=Montgomery Brower and Franz Spelman] cite web | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFD7173EF93AA15752C1A96E948260| title=German Prince Kills Himself After Wife Dies of Overdose | date=31 December 1988 | accessdate=2008-07-21 | publisher=The New York Times | author=Reuters] at the family's estate in Gmunden. After discovering his wife dead, Otto Heinrich's father, Prince Ludwig Rudolph, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with his hunting rifle. Shortly before taking his life, Ludwig Rudolph called his eldest brother Prince Ernst August to ensure that he would care for Otto Heinrich after his death. Otto was nine months old at the time of his parents' deaths.

Despite Ernst August's promise to take custody of Otto Heinrich and raise him with his sons Ernst August VI and Christian, an Austrian court awarded custody to the prince's maternal grandparents, the Count and Countess of Thurn and Valsassina-Como-Vercelli. Today, Otto Heinrich continues to reside in Austria, dividing his time between a residence in Salzburg and Schloss Bleiburg in Carinthia.

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

*1 June 1985 – present: "His Royal Highness" Prince Otto Heinrich of Hanover, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Ancestry

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1=1. Prince Otto Heinrich of Hanover
2=2. Prince Ludwig Rudolph of Hanover
3=3. Countess Isabelle of Thurn and Valsassina-Como-Vercelli
4=4. Ernest Augustus IV, Prince of Hanover
5=5. Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
6=6. Ariprand, Count of Thurn and Valsassina-Como-Vercelli
7=7. Princess Marie Perpetua Euphemia of Auersperg
8=8. Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick
9=9. Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia
10=10. Prince Albrecht of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
11=11. Princess Hertha of Ysenburg and Büdingen
14=14. Franz, Prince of Auersperg
15=15. Princess Hedwig of Lobkowicz
16=16. Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover
17=17. Princess Thyra of Denmark
18=18. William II, German Emperor
19=19. Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein
20=20. Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
21=21. Princess Adélaïde of Schaumburg-Lippe
22=22. Bruno, Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen
23=23. Countess Bertha of Castell-Rüdenhausen
28=28. Eduard Severin Maria, Prince of Auersperg
29=29. Princess Maria of Schönburg-Hartenstein

External links

* [http://www.welfen.de/ Official site of the House of Welf (in German)]

References