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† Prince Albert of Saxony

Prince Albert of Saxony, one of the grandson of the last saxon Kig Fredrich August III.has died  According to the Family he died peacefully on the evening of Satruday 06.10.2012 in a hospital at Munich. Only in July his brother Maria Emanuel Margrave of Meissen, for long years the head of the Family had died in Switzerland. Prince Albert then cleamed the headship of the Royal House despite the fact that in a Family agreement in 1997 he agreed that their nephew prince Alexander of Saxe-Gessaphe should succeed Margrave Maria Emanuel. http://www.sz-online.de/Nachrichten/Sachsen/Letzter_Enkel_des_saechsischen_Koenigs_gestorben/articleid-3174480

† Margrave Maria Emanuel of Meissen

Margrave Maria Emanuel of Meissen, the Head of the Royal House of Saxony passed away on Monday 24.07.2012 in his home at la Tour de  Peilz near Vevey. He was born in 1926 as oldest son of Margrave Friedrich Chirstian of Meissen and his wife Elisabeth Helene, née Princess of Thurn and Taxis and was a grandson of the last reigning King of Saxony Friedrich August III. In 1968 he succeeded his father as head of the Royal House. In 1962 he married Princess Anastasia Luise of Anhalt but their marriage remaind childless. As also his younger brother Prince Albert who married morgantic has no descendats ther was the Question of the future sucession. In the 1990's at a Family meeting all male dynastic members agreed that the succession should pas to Pince Alexander of Saxe-Gessaphe a nephew of the Margrave (son of his sister Princess Maria Anna) who was adopted by the Margrave. Later Prince Albert changed his mind So no both Prince Alexander who is married to Princess Gisela of Bavaria ...

Wedding at Moritzburg

Prince Daniel of Saxony married on Saturday 30. July 2011 at Moritzburg his longtime girlfriend Sandra Scherer. First the civil Wedding took place at the Fasanery Castle followed by the religious Wedding in the Chapel of Morizburg Castle. It was the first time that in the catholic CastleChurch a protestant Wedding took place. Later they couple and their guets celebrated at Albrechtsberg l Castle in Dresden. http://www.bild.de/regional/dresden/deutsche-royals/traumhochzeit-auf-schloss-moritzburg-19149112.bild.html