Prince Alessandro della Torre e Tasso, 1st Duke of Castel Duino, full German

German language

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 name: Alexander Karl Egon Theobald Lamoral Johann Baptist Maria, Prinz von Thurn und Taxis (8 July 1881, Schloss Mzell, Mzell

Mcely

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, Kingdom of Bohemia

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, Austria–Hungary – 11 March 1937, Castel Duino

Duino castle

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, Duino

Duino

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, Kingdom of Italy

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) was a Prince of Thurn of Taxis and a member of the Bohemian line of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis. Alessandro was created a Prince della Torre e Tasso and first Duke of Castel Duino

Duke of Castel Duino

The Dukes of Castel Duino are a noble family in Italy descending from the Bohemian line of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis. The title was created along with the additional title of Prince della Torre e Tasso in 1923 for Prince Alexander of Thurn and Taxis following his naturalisation in...

 by Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

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 after relocating to the Kingdom of Italy

Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)

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 in 1923.

Family

Alessandro was the third child and son of Prince Alexander Johann of Thurn and Taxis and his wife Princess Marie of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg- Schillingsfürst. He was a great-great-great-grandson of Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis

Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis

-Titles and styles:*21 March 1704 – 8 November 1739: His Serene Highness The Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis*8 November 1739 – 17 March 1773: His Serene Highness The Prince of Thurn and Taxis-Honours:...

 and his wife Princess Maria Henriette Josepha of Fürstenberg-Stühlingen.

Marriage and issue

Alessandro married first to Princess Marie of Ligne, daughter of Louis, 9th Prince of Ligne and his wife Elisabeth de la Rochefoucauld, civilly on 27 January 1906 and religiously on 29 January 1906 in Paris

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. Alessandro and Marie had three children together:

• Prince Raimundo della Torre e Tasso, 2nd Duke of Castel Duino (Castel Duino 16 March 1907 – Castel Duino 17 March 1986), married Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark
  Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark
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• Prince Ludwig della Torre e Tasso (Castel Duino 5 October 1908 – Camillus, New York
  Camillus, New York
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   25 March 1985), married Frances Goodyear
• Princess Margarete of Thurn and Taxis (born at Château de Belœil on 8 November 1909), married Prince Gaetan of Bourbon-Parma

Alessandro and Marie divorced in 1912/1919. Alessandro married secondly to Helena "Ella" Holbrook Walker (1875-1959) in 1932 in Vrana

Vrana

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Titles and styles

• 8 July 1881–1923: His Serene Highness Prince Alexander of Thurn and Taxis
• 1923 – 11 March 1937: His Serene Highness The Duke of Castel Duino, Prince della Torre e Tasso

Ancestry