Karl, 5th Prince Fugger von Babenhausen

A member of the high nobility in the Kingdom of Bavaria as a Mediatized Sovereign Prince of the Empire, he was made chamberlain at the Viennese imperial court and from 1906 until his death, was the head of the House of Fugger-Babenhausen, Lord of Boos, Heimertingen, Wald, Wellenburg, Burgwalden, and Markt.

[2] As hereditary count, Karl Georg was entitled to succeed his father in the Bavarian Chamber of Imperial Councillors, but he developed a gambling addiction at a young age.

As a result, in 1905, at the instigation of the Fugger family senior council, the Augsburg district court declared him incapacitated "for extravagance" and personally stripped him of his title as hereditary Imperial Councillor.

[9] In 1906, however, his wife and children moved from Vienna to Fugger Castle in Babenhausen because, according to the testamentary provisions, the assets of the second-generation could not otherwise have been passed on to their son Leopold.

[18] As was recorded in the course of a court hearing, Prince Karl Georg became acquainted with Frida at a party hosted by Katharina Schratt while he was still hereditary count.

[19] His engagement to Princess Eleonora in the spring of 1886 had already been delayed by a brief romance with Mary Vetsera; his wife commented on this succinctly in her memoirs: "It was a close call and my dear cousin would have fallen into the trap of the seductive little mermaid, but it never came to that.

He returned to me repentant, and the reconciliation ended beautifully when I became engaged to him... Only one thing was going through my head at that time: I should marry an exceptionally handsome and cheerful man; I would probably have to share him with others.