Princess Claire | |
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Born |
Filderstadt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
21 March 1985
Spouse | Prince Félix of Luxembourg (m. 2013) |
Issue |
Princess Amalia of Nassau Prince Liam of Nassau |
Father | Hartmut Lademacher |
Mother | Gabriele Schneider |
Religion | Catholicism |
Occupation | Bioethics researcher |
Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg |
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HRH The Grand Duke
HRH The Dowager Countess of Holstein-Ledreborg
HRH The Dowager Princess of Ligne Extended grand-ducal family
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Princess Claire of Luxembourg (born Claire Margareta Lademacher on 21 March 1985) is a German bioethics researcher currently pursuing a doctorate in the field of organ donation ethics at Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum. She is married to Prince Felix, the second son of Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg.
Claire was born on 21 March 1985 in Filderstadt, Germany. She is the second child of Gabriele and Hartmut Lademacher. Her father, founder of LHS Telekommunikation and owner of castles in Croatia and Saint-Tropez, began his career at IBM and amassed an estimated €600 million by investing in the software industry. Claire and her older brother, Felix, grew up in Usingen. At the age of 11, Lademacher moved with her family to Atlanta, and was enrolled in Atlanta International School. The family returned to Germany in 1999 and from then on, Lademacher attended Frankfurt International School, before enrolling in Collège Alpin International Beau Soleil in Switzerland. In 2003, she began studying international communication at the American University of Paris. She married Prince Félix, second in the line of succession to the throne of Luxembourg, on 17 September 2013, and then again in a religious ceremony on 21 September 2013.