Prince Alessandro della Torre e Tasso, 1st Duke of Castel Duino. Full German name: Alexander Karl Egon Theobald Lamoral Johann Baptist Maria, Prinz von Thurn und Taxis in Schloss Mzell, Mzell, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary was a member of the Bohemian branch of the princely House of Thurn and Taxis. Alessandro was created Prince della Torre e Tasso and first Duke of Castel Duino by Victor Emmanuel III of Italy after relocating to the Kingdom of Italy in 1923. Alessandro was the third child and son of Prince Alexander Johann of Thurn and Taxis and his wife Princess Marie of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst. He was a great-great-great-grandson of Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis. Alessandro's first marriage was to Princess Marie de Ligne, daughter of Louis, 9th Prince de Ligne and Elisabeth de La Rochefoucauld, daughter of Sosthène, Duc de Doudeauville, civilly on 27 January 1906 and religiously on 29 January 1906 in Paris. Alessandro and Marie had three children together. In 1932, in Vrana, Alessandro married American heiress Helena "Ella" Holbrook Walker.
Prince Alessandro della Torre e Tasso, 1st Duke of Castel Duino. Full German name: Alexander Karl Egon Theobald Lamoral Johann Baptist Maria, Prinz von Thurn und Taxis in Schloss Mzell, Mzell, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary was a member of the Bohemian branch of the princely House of Thurn and Taxis. Alessandro was created Prince della Torre e Tasso and first Duke of Castel Duino by Victor Emmanuel III of Italy after relocating to the Kingdom of Italy in 1923. Alessandro was the third child and son of Prince Alexander Johann of Thurn and Taxis and his wife Princess Marie of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst. He was a great-great-great-grandson of Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis. Alessandro's first marriage was to Princess Marie de Ligne, daughter of Louis, 9th Prince de Ligne and Elisabeth de La Rochefoucauld, daughter of Sosthène, Duc de Doudeauville, civilly on 27 January 1906 and religiously on 29 January 1906 in Paris. Alessandro and Marie had three children together. In 1932, in Vrana, Alessandro married American heiress Helena "Ella" Holbrook Walker.
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