Nicolas de Leuchtenberg (''Nikolaus Alexander Fritz de Beauharnais, Herzog von Leuchtenberg''; born 12 October 1933,

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) is a claimant to the Dukedom of Leuchtenberg.Ettle, Elmar. �
Hoher Besuch in Kipfenberg
», Donaukurier, 9 July 2016.

Family

He is the son of Nikolai Nikolaievich de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg (in the Russian nobility) ( Gori or

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, 27/29 July (Old Style) 8/10 August (New Style) 1896 –

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, 5 May 1937).Belyakova, Zoia. ''Honour and fidelity: the Russian Dukes of Leuchtenberg'', Logos Publisher, 2010, pp. 18–75, 109–112.

Marriage and issue

On 24 August 1962, he married Anne Christine Bügge (born

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, 17 December 1936) in

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, Lower Saxony,

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], on 24 August 1962 and divorced in 1985, daughter of Gustav Bügge and wife Dorothea Arnold, with whom he had two sons: * Nikolaus Maximilian de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg (

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, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, 20 January 1963 –

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, Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 8 December 2002), died unmarried and without issue; * Konstantin Alexander Peter de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg (born

, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, 25 June 1965),

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to his father, unmarried and without issue.

Biography

Born in 1933, Nicolas lives in

, near

. He has a long career as an

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German television Television in Germany began in Berlin on 22 March 1935, broadcasting for 90 minutes three times a week. It was home to the first regular television service in the world, named ''Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow''. In 2000, the German television marke ...

. After the death without issue of Sergei Georgievich, 8th Duke of Leuchtenberg, (1890–1974), last holder of the Bavarian title, and that of his eldest son, Nicolas Maximilien (d. 2002), he and his second son Constantin are the last male representatives of the family and of the Russian

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title. From 2010s onwards, Nicolas has participated in several commemorations of the installation of his family in the

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in 1814. In 2013, he celebrated his 80th birthday at

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, the capital of the

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of his ancestors.Schönwetter, Josef. « Am Fürstensitz der Urahnen », Donaukurier, 16 October 2013.

References

External links

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