Name Prince Oscar Spouse Mireille Dutry (m. 1963) | House House of Hanover | |
Born 1 September 1919
Gmunden, Upper Austria, Austria ( 1919-09-01 ) Issue Princess Caroline-Luise
Princess Mireille Father Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick Mother Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia Died December 10, 1981, Lausanne, Switzerland Children Princess Caroline-Luise, Princess Mireille Parents Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia Similar People Ernest Augustus - Duke of B, Princess Victoria Louise of, Wilhelm II, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig‑Holstein, Princess Thyra of Denmark | ||
Prince Christian Oscar of Hanover (German: Christian Oskar Ernst August Wilhelm Viktor Georg Heinrich Prinz von Hannover; 1 September 1919 – 10 December 1981) was the fourth child of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick and his wife Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, the only daughter of Wilhelm II, German Emperor and Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein.
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Life
During World War II, he served in the Luftwaffe.
In 1960, Christian Prinz von Hannover, as head of the Duke of Cumberland Foundation, became a consulting manager for Durisol, an Austrian manufacturer of cement-bonded wood fiber.
Marriage and issue
Christian eloped with Mireille Dutry (born 10 January 1946), daughter of Belgian industrialist Armand Dutry and Tinou Soinne and childhood friend of Diane von Fürstenberg, on 23 November 1963 at Salzburg, Austria in a civil ceremony. They were remarried two days later in a religious ceremony in Brussels, Belgium. Christian and Mireille Dutry divorced in 1976. The couple had two daughters:
Ancestry
Christian was a descendant of Victoria of the United Kingdom and Albert, Prince Consort through their eldest daughter Victoria, Princess Royal, the wife of Frederick III, German Emperor. His sister, Princess Frederika of Hanover married Paul I, King of the Hellenes.