Donatus, Hereditary Prince of Hesse

Donatus

Prince and Landgrave of Hesse

Born

17 October 1966 (age 50)
Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Spouse

Countess Floria Franziska Marie-Luisa Erika von Faber-Castell

Issue

Princess Paulina
Moritz, Hereditary Prince of Hesse
Prince August

Full name
Heinrich Donatus Philipp Umberto

Father

Mother

Full name
Heinrich Donatus Philipp Umberto

**Hessian royal family**

HRH The Landgrave HRH The Landgravine HRH The Hereditary Prince HH Princess Paulina HH Prince August HH Princess Mafalda HH Princess Elena HH Prince Philipp HH Princess Laetitia HH Princess Elena HH Prince Tito HH Princess Mafalda HH Princess Elizabeth Extended family HH Prince Karl Adolf HH Princess Yvonne HH Prince Christoph HH The Countess of Schönburg-Glauchau HH Prince Rainer HH Princess Dorothea HH Princess Clarissa

HRH The Landgrave
HRH The Landgravine

HH Princess Elizabeth

HH Prince Karl Adolf
HH Princess Yvonne

HH Prince Rainer
HH Princess Dorothea
HH Princess Clarissa

Donatus, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse (Heinrich Donatus Philipp Umberto; born 17 October 1966) is the eldest son and successor of German aristocrat Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, and his former wife, Princess Tatiana of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. A great-grandson of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, he is named in part after Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse. He is also a great-great-great grandson of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, through his paternal grandfather Philipp's mother Margaret, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. His father Moritz was a third cousin of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

A trained economist, Donatus directs the Hessische Hausstiftung (Foundation of the House of Hesse), a foundation (see below) established to curate and showcase the cultural heritage and history of the House of Hesse, a dynasty which ruled the Electorate of Hesse-Cassel until 1866, the Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine until 1918, and whose male-line descendants include the Protestant leader Philip the Magnanimous, the Swedish king Frederick I, Russia's last tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, the exiled Spanish queen Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, and Britain's last viceroy of India, the assassinated Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma.