Prince Inigo of Urach, Count of Württemberg, (

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: ''Eberhard Friedrich Inigo

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von Urach'';

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: ''Princas Eberhardas Frydrichas Inigo fon Urachas''; born April 12, 1962) is a member of the

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, son of Prince Eberhard of Urach and

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, the current fifth

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to the

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Lithuanian throne. He is the grandson in the male line of King-elect of Lithuania, Wilhelm Karl of Urach, known by his

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as Mindaugas II, and is a descendant of

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Liudvika Karolina Radvilaitė of the Radvila family from

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.Treščina, Ana.
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' (in Lithuanian). Moteris.

Life, family and education

Prince Inigo was born in Bachhausen,

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on April 12, 1962,
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'' The Peerage. as the fifth and youngest child of Prince Eberhard of Urach and Princess Iniga of Thurn and Taxis. Inigo's father died when he was only seven. In September 1991, he married his wife,

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ess Danielle von und zu Bodman at

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, Germany, with whom he currently has 3 children together — Eberhard, Anselm, and Amelie.
H.S.H. Prince Inigo von Urach, Count of Württemberg, great-grandson of the last King Mindaugas II of Lithuania , was elected and recognized the legitimate pretender of the Lithuanian Royal Throne.
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by profession and served in the ''

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'' armed forces while his wife studied biogenetics. He is connected to Lichtenstein, Luxembourg,

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by birth. In 2009, at the age of 47, he made his first visit to Lithuania. From this year onwards, his visits to Lithuania are being organized regularly. Prince Inigo's first official visit to Lithuania, however, happened on November 17–21, 2012. Lithuanian monarchist movements consider Prince Inigo to be the rightful pretender to the now-abolished Lithuanian throne as the marriages of his older brothers are

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PDF). “If Lithuanians will ever want to revive the monarchy, if they will need my knowledge and experience, I am ready to accept this honour the same way my grandfather did. However, this decision will be not up to me, but to the Lithuanian people,” Prince Inigo once said in an interview for the Lithuanian press. He speaks

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and is known to be learning

.Kontrimavičiūtė, Inga (September 19, 2012).
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' (in Lithuanian).

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Political views

Nuclear energy

Inigo is an outspoken critic of nuclear energy, deeming it to be costly and unpromising in the long run and urging to focus on

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instead. “I think that nuclear energy is a cul-de-sac.

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, like

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are finite and limited resources,” Prince has said in an interview. “And also all the pollution related to the fuel, production, use and later destruction. The best solution is green-energies. Let us recall the

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: Is it human that your child asks for bread, and you give him a stone? And what we do, we leave all these problems to our children and grandchildren,” he added. Inigo has reacted positively to the shutdown of

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in Lithuania, by saying that the nuclear waste it produced was raying, poisonous, and “angerous for fifty thousand years”.Jakavičius-Grimalauskas, Liudvikas (May 5, 2013).
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Ancestry

References

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