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Hand-painted photograph of a full length portrait of Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen (1804-56) standing, facing towards the camera. He turns his head and looks towards the right. He hooks his right thumb in his waistcoat pocket and places his left hand on a small table beside him. He is flanked by two tables. On the left is a writing desk and on the right is a small table, on which sits a top ...
Karl, Prince of Leiningen, KG (Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Emich; 12 September 1804 – 13 November 1856) was the third Prince of Leiningen and maternal half-brother of Queen Victoria. Leiningen served as a Bavarian lieutenant general, before he briefly played an important role in German politics as the first Prime Minister of the Provisorische Zentralgewalt government formed by the Frankfurt ...
His great-great-great grandfather, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Emich, 3rd Prince of Leiningen, was the elder half-brother of Queen Victoria. Through his father, he is also a direct descendant (specifically a great-great-great-grandson) of Queen Victoria, through her granddaughter, Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh , whose second husband was Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich.
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Emich, 3rd Prince of Leiningen. by Richard James Lane lithograph, July 1837 8 1/2 in. x 7 1/8 in. (216 mm x 180 mm) paper size Given by Austin Lane Poole, 1956 Reference Collection NPG D21913
Because his marriage to Countess Isabelle would not have been deemed equal according to the Pauline Laws, their son, Prince Emich, though considered a dynast of the House of Leiningen, cannot inherit his claim to the headship of the House of Romanov, which shall pass to his brother, Prince Andreas (1955 - ), and the latter's descendants born of equal marriages upon the death of Karl Emich, and ...
Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen - Biography. Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Emich, Prince of Leiningen, was the maternal half-brother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. Leiningen briefly played an important role in German politics as the first Prime Minister of the government formed by the Frankfurt Parliament in 1848.
