Prince Ludwig Rudolph of Hanover

Prince Ludwig Rudolf of Hanover, of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg (German: Ludwig Rudolf Georg Wilhelm Philipp Friedrich Wolrad Maximilian Prinz von Hannover) (21 November 1955 – 29 November 1988) was a member of the House of Hanover and a music producer.

Early life and career Ludwig Rudolf was born in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany, the third child and second son of Ernst August, Prince of Hanover, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick (1914–1987) and his wife, Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1925–1980). Ludwig Rudolf was a great-great-great-great-grandson of George III of the United Kingdom and a great-grandson of Wilhelm II, German Emperor. Ludwig Rudolf had trained to become a music producer in Los Angeles and London.

Marriage and death Having obtained the consent of Elizabeth II by Order in Council on 15 September 1987 pursuant to the Royal Marriages Act 1772, Ludwig Rudolf, a Lutheran, married the Roman Catholic Countess Isabella Maria von Thurn und Valsassina-Como-Vercelli (born September 8 1962 in Gmunden, Upper Austria), a former fashion model at her father's ancestral Austrian estate, Bleiburg Castle, Carinthia on 4 October 1987. She was the daughter of Count Ariprand von Thurn und Valsassina-Como-Vercelli (1925–1996), whose family, an Austrian branch of the Della Torre dynasty, ruled Milan in the 13th and 14th century, and his wife, Princess Maria Perpetua Euphemia von Auersperg (1929-2025). They had one son: Prince Otto Heinrich Ariprand George Johannes Ernst August Vinzenz Egmont Franz of Hanover (born 13 February 1988) In the early hours of 29 November 1988, after the couple had entertained guests at their home, Königinvilla (The Queen's Villa) in Gmunden, a house left to them by Ludwig Rudolf's elder brother Ernst August, the prince went to the bedroom where his wife had retired before midnight, and found Isabella sprawled fully dressed across their bed. The efforts of her husband and friends to revive her proved futile. Ludwig Rudolf, who had been…Citește mai mult