They often visited his wife's Hungarian and Croatian relatives in the countryside, as well as Albrecht's uncle Prince Franz of Bavaria at his Nádasdy Castle in Sárvár.

“My father used his aggressiveness as his only weapon and attacked anyone who came too close to him.”[3] Towards the end of the war, they were interned with other special prisoners, including the family of General Paulus, in a former hotel on Lake Plansee (Tyrol), but had to remain there under military guard even after they were liberated by the United States Third Army.

Finally, together with numerous refugees from Hungary, they moved into an outbuilding of Leutstetten Castle near Starnberg, which was occupied by an Allied commission, where after some time the former crown prince also returned from Rome.

[4] Since 1949 Albrecht lived at Berg Palace (Bavaria), 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Munich on Lake Starnberg, in relative seclusion until the end of his life.

His son Franz remembers: “He came back after being away for many years, having previously experienced a decade of severe disappointments - including on a human level.

In order to remain present, he established the annual receptions by the head of the House of Wittelsbach at Nymphenburg Palace, which are still held today, to which around 1,500 guests from state politics, municipalities, churches and sciences, art and medicine as well as friends and relatives are invited.

He also wrote two books on "the habits of deer"[1] for which he (and his second wife) received honorary doctorates by the biological faculty of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

[10] Albrecht married Countess Maria Draskovich of Trakostjan (8 March 1903 in Vienna – 10 June 1969 in Wildbad Kreuth) on 3 September 1930 in Berchtesgaden.

[12] Although the couple were related, both sharing descent from Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor and Albrecht's father allowed the wedding, a Wittelsbach family council concluded that the marriage was non-compliant with the dynasty's marital tradition as set out in its historical House laws,[12] and the names of the couple's four children were excluded from the Almanach de Gotha.

She was the youngest daughter of Count Stephan Keglevich of Buzin (1880-1962) and his wife, Countess Klára Mária Theodora Paulina Antonia Josefa Zichy of Zich and Vásonkeö (1883-1971).

[15] As head of the House of Wittelsbach, Albrecht was traditionally styled as His Royal Highness the Duke of Bavaria, of Franconia and in Swabia,[16] Count Palatine of the Rhine.