Prince Wilhelm of Schaumburg-Lippe (b. 1939)


Prince Wilhelm of Schaumburg-Lippe is the head of the Nachod branch of the princely house of Schaumburg-Lippe. Wilhelm is the son of Prince Christian Nicholas of Schaumburg-Lippe, and the great-grandson of Frederick VIII of Denmark.

Marriage and issue

He married Ilona Hentschel Baronin von Gilgenheimb on 17 January 1971. They had two children:
He is in the line of succession to the British throne as a descendant of George II of the United Kingdom's daughter Queen Caroline Matilda of Denmark and Norway.

Ancestry