Carl, Prince of Wied is son of Frederick William, 7th Prince of Wied

Frederick William, Prince of Wied

Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Wied was the grandson of William Frederick, 6th Prince of Wied. He was the titular Prince of Wied from 1945 until his death.-Early life:...

. Since 2000, he is the titular Prince of Wied.

Early life

Carl was born at Neuwied

Neuwied

Neuwied is a town in the north of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, capital of the District of Neuwied. Neuwied lies on the right bank of the Rhine, 12 km northwest of Koblenz, on the railway from Frankfurt am Main to Cologne...

, West Germany

West Germany

West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

, the second child of Frederick William, Prince of Wied

Frederick William, Prince of Wied

Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Wied was the grandson of William Frederick, 6th Prince of Wied. He was the titular Prince of Wied from 1945 until his death.-Early life:...

 (1931–2000), (grandson of William Frederick, Prince of Wied

William Frederick, Prince of Wied

William Frederick, Prince of Wied was a German nobleman, eldest child of William, Prince of Wied. He was brother of William, Prince of Albania.-Early life:...

 and Princess Pauline of Württemberg

Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1877–1965)

Princess Pauline of Württemberg was the only daughter of William II of Württemberg and wife of William Frederick, Prince of Wied. She was the last Princess of Württemberg, as well the last senior member of the House of Württemberg....

) and his first wife, Princess Guda of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Princess Guda of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Princess Guda of Waldeck and Pyrmont is the youngest daughter of Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, head of the House of Waldeck and Pyrmont from 1946 to 1967 and first wife of Frederick William, Prince of Wied.-Early life:...

 (b. 1939), (daughter of Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont was the heir apparent to the throne of the Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont and a General in the SS. From 1946 until his death he was the head of the Princely House of Waldeck and Pyrmont...

 and Duchess Altburg of Oldenburg

Duchess Altburg of Oldenburg

Duchess Altburg Marie Matilda Olga of Oldenburg was a daughter of Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg by his second wife Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.-Early life:...

). Through his father he is descendant of William II of Württemberg

William II of Württemberg

William II was the fourth King of Württemberg, from 6 October 1891 until the abolition of the kingdom on 30 November 1918...

, William I of the Netherlands

William I of the Netherlands

William I Frederick, born Willem Frederik Prins van Oranje-Nassau , was a Prince of Orange and the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg....

, Frederick William III of Prussia

Frederick William III of Prussia

Frederick William III was king of Prussia from 1797 to 1840. He was in personal union the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel .-Early life:...

. Through his mother he is descendant of George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

George Victor was the 3rd sovereign Prince of the German state of Waldeck and Pyrmont.He was born in Arolsen the son of George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont and his wife Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym...

, Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg

Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg

Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg was the ruler of Oldenburg from 1853 to 1900.-Family:Duke Nikolaus Friedrich Peter was the only son of Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg by his second wife Princess Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym. He was born on 8 July 1827 in Oldenburg. In his youth, he...

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Although his full name is Friedrich August Maximilian Wilhelm Carl, he usually goes by his middle name of Carl.

Marriage

Carl married on 26 April 1998 in Birstein

Birstein

Birstein is a municipality on the northeastern edge of the Main-Kinzig-Kreis in Hesse, Germany with approximately 6,600 inhabitants. It was the home of the former principality of Isenburg-Birstein.-Geography:...

 to Princess Isabelle of Isenburg (b. 1973), third child and second daughter of Franz Alexander, Prince of Isenburg, head of the mediatized

German Mediatisation

The German Mediatisation was the series of mediatisations and secularisations that occurred in Germany between 1795 and 1814, during the latter part of the era of the French Revolution and then the Napoleonic Era....

 House of Isenburg and his wife, Countess Elisabeth von Saurma-Jeltsch.

They had three children:

• Hereditary Prince Maximilian of Wied (b. 10 August 1999)
• Prince Frederick William of Wied (b. 9 May 2001)
• Princess Louise of Wied (b. 2 November 2004)

Prince of Wied

At the death of his father in 2000, Carl was not expected to inherit the title of Prince of Wied, his elder brother Prince Alexander, renounced his title as first-born son in 2000, and the title then was passed to Carl.

Carl is also in the line of succession to the British throne

Line of succession to the British Throne

The line of succession to the British throne is the ordered sequence of those people eligible to succeed to the throne of the United Kingdom and the other 15 Commonwealth realms. By the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701, the succession is limited to the descendants of the Electress Sophia of...

 after being a descendant of Princess Augusta of Great Britain, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales

Frederick, Prince of Wales

Frederick, Prince of Wales was a member of the House of Hanover and therefore of the Hanoverian and later British Royal Family, the eldest son of George II and father of George III, as well as the great-grandfather of Queen Victoria...

 (son of George II of Great Britain

George II of Great Britain

George II was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Archtreasurer and Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death.George was the last British monarch born outside Great Britain. He was born and brought up in Northern Germany...

).

Titles and styles

• 27 October 1961 – 28 August 2000: His Serene Highness Prince Carl of Wied
• 28 August 2000 – present: His Serene Highness The Prince of Wied

Ancestry