A prince and she and baby make three

A prince and she and baby make three

There is the monarchy you know and the monarchy you don’t know. I, for one, didn’t know jack about Prince Louis Xavier Marie Guillaume of Luxembourg until a news brief about his recent wedding reached my inbox this morning. Though the ceremony, held on September 29, was quite low key, hundreds of royalty-philes gathered at the church where Prince Louis wed his long-time sweetie, twenty-year-old Tessy Anthony Hansen. The pair apparently met while serving in the Luxembourg army during a mission to Kosovo in 2004.

Their bouncing baby boy, Gabriel, was in attendance at the wedding, wearing what some news outlets described as a “smart white coat.”

According to Prince Louis’ wikipedia entry, upon his marriage, Louis gave up his succession rights and those of Gabriel, and any of the couple’s future children, although Louis retains his title of Prince of Luxembourg and the style of Royal Highness while Tessy and Gabriel (and any of the couple’s future children) hold the surname de Nassau with no titles.

Bummer! Titles are cool!

7 Responses to “A prince and she and baby make three”

  1. well colour me confused. Why does he give up his titles? Because he’s done right by the woman who’d borne a royal child? This makes no sense to me NtB? I don’t understand how having a bastard child and keeping a mistress would allow him to KEEP his titles, but marrying makes him relinquish them….

  2. fannypie says:

    He renounced it himself.

  3. Never teh Bride says:

    I’ve never understood the mores and rules of the royals, Dataceptionist. To me, it’s all pomp and circumstance, considering few of these blue bloods hold any real power these days anyway.

  4. MNT says:

    Oh Dataceptionist, but that is the way of the world! Patriarchy and the class system — disgusting, but with a long and distinguished pedigree.

  5. Christine G says:

    Dataceptionist,
    I don’t know what the Luxembourg rules are, but if it was the UK then the child would be unable to succeed to the throne irrespective of whether his/her parents went on to get married later. If the child is to have Royal succession rights, he/she must be born AFTER the parents are validly married (though the bride is allowed to be pregnant at the time of the wedding!).

  6. enygma says:

    Perhaps he renounced his title because he made a morganatic marriage. If I’m not mistaken, a former king of England, King Edward, also renounced the throne when he married an American divorcee, Wallis Simpson.

  7. pearly says:

    He renounced to his rights because his child is not on the succession line.
    Anyway, congrats to them. Even if it’s quite difficult to beleive Tessy became “accidentally” pregnant when dating a Prince whose father owns a $5 billion fortune.