Prince Alessandro della Torre e Tasso, 1st Duke of Castel Duino, full

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name: ''Alexander Karl Egon Theobald Lamoral Johann Baptist Maria, Prinz von Thurn und Taxis'' (8 July 1881 in Schloss Mzell, Mzell,

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– 11 March 1937 in Castel Duino,

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) was a member of the Bohemian branch of the princely

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. Alessandro was created Prince della Torre e Tasso and first Duke of Castel Duino by

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after relocating to the

in 1923.

Family

Alessandro was the third child and son of Prince Alexander Johann of Thurn and Taxis and his wife Princess Marie of

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. He was a great-great-great-grandson of

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First marriage and issue

Alessandro's first marriage was to Princess Marie Susanne Marguerite Louise de

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, daughter of Louis, 9th Prince de Ligne and Elisabeth de La Rochefoucauld, daughter of Sosthène, Duc de Doudeauville, civilly on 27 January 1906 and religiously on 29 January 1906 in

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. Alessandro and Marie had three children together: * Prince Raimundo della Torre e Tasso, 2nd Duke of Castel Duino (Castel Duino 16 March 1907 – Castel Duino 17 March 1986), married

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* Prince Luigi della Torre e Tasso (Castel Duino 5 October 1908 –

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25 March 1985) married Frances Goodyear (granddaughter of

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industrialist Charles W. Goodyear in 1939. Goodyear family Wiki page - see

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They divorced in 1948. Together they had one son, "Sascha" Alexander Frederick Bradley, Prince of Torre e Tasso (1940–2011). * Princess Margarete of Thurn and Taxis (born at

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on 8 November 1909 – died on 21 September 2006), married

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, youngest child of

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. Together they had one daughter, Princess Diane Marguerite of Bourbon-Parma. Alessandro and Marie divorced in 1919.

Second marriage

In 1932, in Vrana, Alessandro married American heiress Helena "Ella" Holbrook

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. Ella lived many years beyond her husband's death in 1937, and worked on the upkeep of the family's property, Villa Serbelloni at

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, Italy, and left it to the

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in her will.

Ancestry

References

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