Ernst August V, Prince of Hanover
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Ernst August, Prince of Hanover (German: Prinz von Hannover, in English also known as Ernest Augustus of Hanover) (born 26 February 1954 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany) is the eldest son of Ernest Augustus IV, Prince of Hanover (1914–1987) and his first wife, Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1925–1980).
He is usually styled His Royal Highness The Prince of Hanover and sometimes as Ernest Augustus V.
He is best known for his much-publicized bouts of temper, his conviction for grievous bodily harm, and for being the third and present husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco, heiress presumptive to the throne of Monaco. He is the pretender to the throne of Hanover.
Name and ancestry
As the senior male-line descendant of George V of Hanover and hence also of George III of the United Kingdom, Ernst August is head of the House of Hanover and is enumerated as Ernest Augustus V. As such he is the Hanoverian pretender to the royal throne of Hanover and the ducal throne of Brunswick-Lunenburg. Hence, he according to German tradition styles himself His Royal Highness The Prince of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland[link]. None of these titles are valid under either German, British or Irish modern law, but the titles are used for courtesy at European courts and formally recognized by the state of Monaco. In Germany royal and noble titles were abolished in 1918, legally being considered only as surnames.As heir of the Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, Ernst August has the right to petition under the Titles Deprivation Act 1917 for the restoration of his ancestors' British peerages but has not done so, even though his father, also called Ernst August, successfully claimed British nationality after World War II by virtue of long-dormant provisions of the Sophia Naturalization Act.
The Prince is also a great-grandson of the last German emperor, William II.
Family
He first married, civilly on 28 August 1981 and religiously on 30 August 1981, Chantal Hochuli, heiress to a Swiss chocolate fortune. They had two children, Ernst August (b. 1983) and Christian (b. 1985), and divorced on 23 October 1997. In 2000, Tatler magazine named the prince's former wife one of the "hottest dates" of the year.He married secondly, on 23 January 1999, HSH Princess Caroline of Monaco, with whom he had been having an affair, the eldest child of TSH Rainier III, Prince of Monaco and Grace, Princess of Monaco and the widow of Stefano Casiraghi, a sportsman heir to an Italian oil fortune. In accordance with the Act of Settlement 1701, by marrying a Catholic, he was removed from the line of succession to the British throne, where he occupied approximately the 445th position, but he retains his hereditary claims to the throne of Hanover. His wife is now heiress presumptive to the throne of Monaco.
Ernst August and Caroline have one daughter, Alexandra Charlotte Ulrike Maryam Virginia (b. 1999).
Recent events
The Prince of Hanover became notorious when, on January 10–11, 1998, he assaulted a journalist with an umbrella who was filming at the entrance to his residence. He agreed to a fine of 90,000 DM in a settlement.On January 14, 2000, while drunk, he used brass knuckles to injure another German citizen at a resort in Kenya. In 2004, the Regional Court of Hanover (Landgericht Hannover) convicted him of grievous bodily harm because of this event. The Prince had to pay a fine of €445,000; the court advised him that he would likely be committed to an alcoholism clinic in the case of a repeat offense.
At the Expo 2000 in Hannover, he caused offence by urinating against the Turkish Pavilion in broad daylight.
On Monday, April 3, 2005, the prince was admitted to hospital with acute pancreatitis. The next day, he fell into a deep coma, one day before the death of his father-in-law, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. On Friday, April 8, 2005, hospital officials reported that the prince was no longer in a coma but remained in intensive care. A report the same day on BBC World described his present condition as "serious but not irreversible." On April 9, 2005, according to a report on BBC, a hospital spokesman reported that the prince was receiving "permanent medical care."
Genealogical data
ERNST AUGUST Albert Otto Rupprecht Oskar Berthold Friedrich-Ferdinand Christian-Ludwig, Prince of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, Royal Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, born at Hannover 26 February 1954, eldest son of Ernest Augustus IV, Prince of Hanover.Married firstly at Pattensen 28 August 1981 Chantal Hochuli divorced 1997.
Married secondly at Monaco 23 January 1999 HSH Princess Caroline.
Three children:
- Prince Ernst August (VI) of Hanover, born at Hildesheim 19 July 1983;
- Prince Christian of Hanover, born at Hildesheim 1 June 1985;
- Princess Alexandra of Hanover, born at Vöcklabruck 20 July 1999.
Ernest Augustus IV
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