Prince Christian Oscar of Hanover

Infobox Hanoverian Royalty|highness
name = Prince Christian Oscar
title = Prince Christian Oscar of Hanover
spouse = Mireille Dutry
issue = Princess Caroline-Luise
Princess Mireille
titles = "HRH" Prince Christian Oscar of Hanover
royal house = House of Hanover
full name = Christian Oscar Ernest Augustus William Victor George Henry
" _de. Christian Oskar Ernst August Wilhelm Viktor Georg Heinrich"cite web | url=http://thepeerage.com/p10168.htm#i101677| title=Christian Oskar Hanover, Prince of Hanover | date=1 July 2003 | accessdate=2008-07-17 | publisher=thePeerage.com | author=Darryl Lundy] cite web | url=http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/hannover.html| title=HANNOVER | date= | accessdate=2008-07-17 | publisher=Paul Theroff's Royal Genealogy Site | author=Paul Theroff]
father = Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick
mother = Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia
date of birth = birth date|1919|9|1|df=yes
place of birth = Gmunden, Upper Austria, Austria
date of death = death date and age|1981|12|10|1919|9|1|df=yes
place of death = Lausanne, Switzerland|

Prince Christian Oscar of Hanover (German: "Christian Oskar Ernst August Wilhelm Viktor Georg Heinrich Prinz von Hannover"), Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (born 1 September 1919 in Gmunden, Upper Austria, Austriacite web | url=http://thepeerage.com/p10168.htm#i101677| title=Christian Oskar Hanover, Prince of Hanover | date=1 July 2003 | accessdate=2008-07-17 | publisher=thePeerage.com | author=Darryl Lundy] cite web | url=http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/hannover.html| title=HANNOVER | date= | accessdate=2008-07-17 | publisher=Paul Theroff's Royal Genealogy Site | author=Paul Theroff] ; died 10 December 1981 in Lausanne, Switzerlandcite web | url=http://thepeerage.com/p10168.htm#i101677| title=Christian Oskar Hanover, Prince of Hanover | date=1 July 2003 | accessdate=2008-07-17 | publisher=thePeerage.com | author=Darryl Lundy] cite web | url=http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/hannover.html| title=HANNOVER | date= | accessdate=2008-07-17 | publisher=Paul Theroff's Royal Genealogy Site | author=Paul Theroff] ) was the fourth soncite web | url=http://thepeerage.com/p10168.htm#i101677| title=Christian Oskar Hanover, Prince of Hanover | date=1 July 2003 | accessdate=2008-07-17 | publisher=thePeerage.com | author=Darryl Lundy] cite web | url=http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/hannover.html| title=HANNOVER | date= | accessdate=2008-07-18 | publisher=Paul Theroff's Royal Genealogy Site | author=Paul Theroff] of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick and his wife Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, the only daughter of Wilhelm II, German Emperor and Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein.

Professional life

In 1960, Christian Prinz von Hannover, as head of the Duke of Cumberland Foundation, became a consulting manager for Durisol, an Austrian manufacturer of cement-bonded wood fiber.cite web | url=http://www.durisol.at/seiten/01_unternehmen/02_meilensteine.asp| title=Durisol: The Milestones | date= | accessdate=2008-07-18 | publisher= [http://www.durisol.at/ Durisol-Werke GES. M. B. H.] | author=]

Marriage and issue

Christian elopedcite web | url=http://www.buzzle.com/articles/125223.html| title=Diane Von Furstenberg | date=27 January 2007 | accessdate=2008-07-17 | publisher=Guardian Unlimited | author=Jess Cartner-Morley] with Mireille Dutry (born 10 January 1946), daughter of Armand Dutry and Tinou Soinne and childhood friend of Diane von Fürstenbergcite web | url=http://www.buzzle.com/articles/125223.html| title=Diane Von Furstenberg | date=27 January 2007 | accessdate=2008-07-17 | publisher=Guardian Unlimited | author=Jess Cartner-Morley] , on 23 November 1963 at Salzburg, Austria in a civil ceremony.cite web | url=http://thepeerage.com/p10168.htm#i101677| title=Christian Oskar Hanover, Prince of Hanover | date=1 July 2003 | accessdate=2008-07-17 | publisher=thePeerage.com | author=Darryl Lundy] cite web | url=http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/hannover.html| title=HANNOVER | date= | accessdate=2008-07-17 | publisher=Paul Theroff's Royal Genealogy Site | author=Paul Theroff] They were remarried two days later in a religious ceremony in Brussels, Belgium.cite web | url=http://thepeerage.com/p10168.htm#i101677| title=Christian Oskar Hanover, Prince of Hanover | date=1 July 2003 | accessdate=2008-07-17 | publisher=thePeerage.com | author=Darryl Lundy] cite web | url=http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/hannover.html| title=HANNOVER | date= | accessdate=2008-07-17 | publisher=Paul Theroff's Royal Genealogy Site | author=Paul Theroff] Christian and Mireille Dutry divorced in 1976.cite web | url=http://thepeerage.com/p10168.htm#i101677| title=Christian Oskar Hanover, Prince of Hanover | date=1 July 2003 | accessdate=2008-07-17 | publisher=thePeerage.com | author=Darryl Lundy] cite web | url=http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/hannover.html| title=HANNOVER | date= | accessdate=2008-07-17 | publisher=Paul Theroff's Royal Genealogy Site | author=Paul Theroff] The couple had two daughters:

*HRH Princess "Caroline-Luise" Mireille Irene Sophie of Hanover (born 3 May 1965 at Wels, Upper Austria, Austria)
*HRH Princess "Mireille" Viktoria Luise of Hanover (born 3 June 1971 at Brussels, Belgium)

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

*1 September 1919 – 10 December 1981: "His Royal Highness" Prince Christian Oscar of Hanover, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Ancestry

Christian was a descendant of Victoria of the United Kingdom and Albert, Prince Consort through their eldest daughter Victoria, Princess Royal, the wife of Frederick III, German Emperor. His sister, Princess Frederika of Hanover married Paul I, King of the Hellenes.

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1=1. Prince Christian Oscar of Hanover
2=2. Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick
3=3. Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia
4=4. Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover
5=5. Princess Thyra of Denmark
6=6. William II, German Emperor
7=7. Princess Auguste Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
8=8. George V of Hanover
9=9. Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg
10=10. Christian IX of Denmark
11=11. Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
12=12. Frederick III, German Emperor
13=13. Victoria, Princess Royal
14=14. Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
15=15. Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
16=16. Ernest Augustus I of Hanover
17=17. Duchess Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
18=18. Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
19=19. Amelia of Württemberg
20=20. Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
21=21. Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
22=22. Prince William of Hesse
23=23. Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark
24=24. William I, German Emperor
25=25. Augusta of Saxe-Weimar
26=26. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
27=27. Victoria of the United Kingdom
28=28. Christian, Duke of August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
29=29. Countess Lovisa-Sophie Danneskjold-Samsøe
30=30. Ernst, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
31=31. Princess Feodora of Leiningen

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