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Charles Prince of Luxembourg (1927)
- Category : 1927-births
- Type : MGP
- Profile : 2/4 - Hermit / Opportunist
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : RAX The Sphinx 3
Biography
Luxembourgish prince as the younger son of Grand Duchess Charlotte and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma. On 1 March 1967 he married in Guildford, Surrey, Joan Douglas Dillon, daughter of U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon and wife Phyllis Chess Ellsworth. As an unprecedented marriage between a prince of Luxembourg's reigning family and a commoner, Charles's brother, Grand Duke Jean, issued a decree to authorize the union as dynastic on 16 February 1967.
Prince Charles and his wife Joan Dillon had two children, who are also a princess and prince of Luxembourg and Nassau. Charles died on 26 July 1977, aged 49, in Imbarcati, Pistoia.