Prince Charles of Luxembourg
| Prince Charles | |
|---|---|
| Born |
7 August 1927 Berg Castle |
| Died | 26 July 1977 (aged 49) Imbarcati, Pistoia |
| Spouse | Joan Douglas Dillon |
| Issue | Princess Charlotte Prince Robert |
| House |
House of Bourbon-Parma House of Nassau-Weilburg |
| Father | Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma |
| Mother | Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg |
| Religion | Catholicism |
Prince Charles of Luxembourg, of Bourbon-Parma and of Nassau (Charles Frédéric Louis Guillaume Marie; 7 August 1927 in Berg Castle – 26 July 1977 in Imbarcati, Pistoia), was a younger son of Grand Duchess Charlotte and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma.
He grew up at his mother's court in Luxembourg, completing secondary school in Canada. After World War II he undertook studies in Louvain, then at the Royal Military Academy at Aldershot.
After university, he returned to Luxembourg, where he worked to address national economic and social issues.
He inherited from his father Pianore, an estate held by the Bourbon-Parma family in Italy.
He married at St. Edward's, in Sutton Park, Guildford, Surrey, on 1 March 1967 Joan Douglas Dillon, daughter of U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon and wife Phyllis Chess Ellsworth. As an unprecedented marriage between a prince of Luxembourg's reigning family and a commoner, Charles's brother, Grand Duke Jean, issued a decree to authorize the union as dynastic on 16 February 1967.
Joan Dillon married firstly in Paris on 1 August 1953 James Brady Moseley (New York City, New York, 22 May 1931 – Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 9 April 1998), son of Boston investment banker Frederick S. , Jr. and wife Jane H. Brady. They were divorced in Washoe County, Nevada, on 12 December 1955; later the marriage was annulled in Rome on 22 June 1963.
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