Ernst August Herzog von Braunschweig und Lüneburg, Prinz von Hannover

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Prinz Ernst August IV Georg Wilhelm Christian Ludwig Franz Joseph Nikolaus Oskar von Hannover (Hannover, Welf)

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Birthplace: Braunschweig, Preussen, Deutschland(DKR)
Death: December 09, 1987 (73)
Hausgut Calenberg, Schulenburg, Pattensen, Niedersachsen, Deutschland (Germany)
Place of Burial: Landstuhl, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Immediate Family:

Son of Ernst III, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Victoria Louise Adelheid von Preußen
Husband of Ortrud Prinzessin von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and Monika Gräfin zu Solms-Laubach
Ex-partner of Maria Anna Freiin von Humboldt-Dachroeden
Father of Private; Ernst August V, Prince of Hanover; Ludwig Prinz von Hannover; Private; Private and 2 others
Brother of Georg Wilhelm Ernst August Friederich Axel von Hannover; Queen Frederika Luise Thyra Victoria Margarita Sophia Olga Cecilia Isabella Christa of Hanover, Queen consort of Greece; Christian Prinz von Hannover (Welf) and Welf Heinrich Prinz von Hannover

Occupation: Herzog von Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Prinz von Hannover, Prince of Great Britain and of Ireland
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About Ernst August Herzog von Braunschweig und Lüneburg, Prinz von Hannover

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BIOGRAPHY Born 18 March 1914 in Braunschweig, he was educated at Castle Salem, and later at the universities of Oxford, Berlin and Göttingen, and earned a degree in law.

On 31 August 1951 in Castle Marienburg near Hannover, he married Princess Ortrud von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and they became the parents of six children. In 1953, after his father's death, he became the head of Hannoverian Royal Family.

It may have been his legal background that gave him a particular interest in the Act of Settlement passed by the British Parliament in 1701. In 1956 by persistence, he finally managed to establish in the British courts the right of all non-Catholic descendants of the Electress Sophia von Hannover to British citizenship. This proved particularly important in the case of those descendants whose lands had been seized in eastern Europe after the was since they were now able to establish claims for compensattion as British subjects. From; 'Queen Victoria's Descendants', by Marlene A. Eilers.

  • Ernst August Georg Wilhelm Christian Ludwig Franz Joseph Nikolaus Hannover, Prince(Prinz) von Hannover.
  • HRH Prince Ernest Augustus of the United Kingdom.
  • Herzog von Braunschweig-Lüneburg.
  • Abdicated as Prince of the United Kingdom on 28 March 1919.
  • Deprived of his British titles by an Order in Council.

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Ernst August Herzog von Braunschweig und Lüneburg, Prinz von Hannover's Timeline

1914
March 18, 1914
Braunschweig, Preussen, Deutschland(DKR)
1954
February 26, 1954
Hannover, Niedersachsen, Deutschland(BRD)
1955
November 28, 1955
Braunschweig