Heinrich Donatus, Hereditary Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (Ernst-August Alexander Wilhelm Bernhard Krafft Heinrich Donatus; born 13 May 1994) is the son of Alexander, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe

Alexander, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe

Alexander, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe is the head of the Princely House of Schaumburg-Lippe. As such, he carries the title Fürst zu Schaumburg-Lippe.-Biography:...

 and thus heir to the German Princely house of Schaumburg-Lippe

Schaumburg-Lippe

Schaumburg-Lippe was until 1946 a small state in Germany, located in the present day state of Lower Saxony, with its capital at Bückeburg.- History :...

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Prince Heinrich Donatus of Schaumburg-Lippe was born in Hanover

Hanover

Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

 to Alexander, Hereditary Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (born 1958), and Princess Marie-Louise ("Lilly") of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (born 1972), who had married in August 1993. His mother suffered a nervous breakdown in 1998, and left her husband in 2000 to move with her son from Hanover to Munich. The couple divorced in 2002.

On the death of his father, Philip-Ernst, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Alexander inherited the title Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, while his son became Hereditary Prince. In 2007, the Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe married lawyer Nadja Anna Zsoeks. Princess Marie-Louise is now married to designer Lambros Milona, with whom she has a daughter, Lana.

Titles and styles

• 13 May 1994 – 28 August 2003: His Serene Highness Prince Heinrich Donatus of Schaumburg-Lippe
• 28 August 2003 – present: His Serene Highness The Hereditary Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe

His current title in German is Heinrich Donatus Erbprinz zu Schaumburg-Lippe.

Ancestry