Prince Christian-Sigismund of Prussia
| Prince Christian-Sigismund | |
|---|---|
| Born | 14 March 1946 |
| Spouse | Countess Nina Helene Lydia Alexandra zu Reventlow |
| Issue | Isabelle-Alexandra Grandmontagne Prince Christian Ludwig Princess Irina |
| House | Hohenzollern |
| Father | Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia |
| Mother | Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia |
Prince Christian-Sigismund of Prussia (born March 14, 1946) is one of the three paternal uncles of Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia, head of the House of Hohenzollern since 1994, which reigned over Germany until 1918. He is the youngest of four sons born to Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (1907-1994) and Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia (1909-1967). He was the heir presumptive to the headship of the deposed House of Hohenzollern from the death of his father to 20 January 2013, when Georg Friedrich fathered twin sons, relegating Christian-Sigismund to a more remote place in the Line of succession to the former German throne.
His two eldest brothers, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (born 1939) and Prince Michael (born 1940) married commoners in the mid-1960s and renounced their historical rights as Prussian princes. In 1975 his brother Prince Louis Ferdinand Jr. (1944-1977), dynastically wed a mediatised countess, Donata Countess of Castell-Rüdenhausen (1950 - 2015), but died accidentally during German military maneuvers two years later, leaving an only son, Georg Friedrich, as heir to the Hohenzollern legacy. Aware that his father strongly desired that he marry dynastically after his eldest brothers' morganatic marriages, Christian Sigismund nonetheless maintained that he did not feel unduly pressured: his eventual marriage to a countess, although non-mediatised, was also accepted as "equal" by his father.
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