Philipp Ernst, 8th Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst

Philipp Ernst, 8th Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (b. Schillingsfürst, 5 June 1853 - d. Bad Reichenhall, 26 December 1915).

Biography

He was the eldest son of Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst in Schillingsfürst and his wife, Princess Marie of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn. He married on January 10, 1882 in Vienna to Princess Chariclée Ypsilanti (b. Paris, 8 October 1863 - d. Schillingsfürst, 22 June 1912). Although some sources established they did not have any children,^[1] in fact the marriage produced two daughters, both died in infancy:^[2]

• Stephanie (b. and d. Schillingsfürst, 23 September 1882).
• Maria (b. Podiebrady, 7 August 1886 - d. Podiebrady, 19 January 1897).

After her death he married morganatically in Edinburgh on 6 August 1913 with the actress Henriette Gindra (b. Vienna, 7 October 1884 - d. Innsbruck, 15 May 1952). She was created Frau von Hellberg on July 10, 1914.^[3][4] She was 31 years younger than him. This union produced one son:

• Alexander von Hellberg (b. Munich, 19 March 1914 - killed in battle, Givors, 24 August 1944), married in Munich on 27 February 1937 to Helga Lüth.

He died on December 26, 1915 in Bad Reichenhall whitout dynastic male heirs; for this, his brother Maurice became in the next Head of the family and Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst.

References

1. Axel von Schwering (1915). The Berlin court under William II. His heir, Prince Philip Ernest, was married to a lovely Greek, the Princess Ypsilanti, but she died without issue, ...
2. Complete Genealogy of the House of Hohenlohe (retrieved 16 June 2014).
3. Transatlantic, Marconi (January 24, 1914). "Prince Weds An Actress. Hohenlohe, Kin To The Kaiser, Wants His Bride Ennobled". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-07-13. Prince Philip von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst, a kinsman of the Kaiser, has married an actress, the 28-year-old daughter of a Vienna tradesman. ...
4. Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1907). Memoirs.