Prince Carlo Alessandro | |
Full Name: | Italian: Carlo Alessandro |
Reign: | 17 March 1986 – present |
Reign-Type: | Period |
Succession: | Duke of Castel Duino |
Predecessor: | Raimundo |
Successor: | Prince Dimitri |
Suc-Type: | Heir-Apparent |
Issue: | Prince Dimitri Prince Maximilian Princess Constanza |
House: | Thurn and Taxis |
Father: | Raimundo, 2nd Duke of Castel Duino |
Mother: | Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark |
Birth Date: | 10 February 1952 |
Birth Place: | Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France |
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]
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.
He is a maternal second cousin of Charles III, King of Great Britain, through their shared great-grandparents, King George I and Queen Olga of Greece, born a Grand Duchess of Russia.
Carlo Alessandro married Veronique Lantz, daughter of Gérard Lantz and his wife, Monique Rachet, on 10 February 1976 in Saint-Tropez, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Carlo Alessandro and Veronique have three children:
Carlo Alessandro and his family currently reside at Duino Castle in the Province of Trieste, Italy.