Carl-Friedrich Hubertus Georg Eduardo Paolo Nickolos Franz Alois Ignatius Hieronymus Maria, Hereditary Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (30 September 1966 – 24 April 2010),[1] better known by his racing alias Leonhard "Leo" Löwenstein, was a German prince and endurance race driver participating in the VLN.
[2][3] Löwenstein drove his first race 2006 in the ADAC "Chevy" Egons 500 in the Nordschleife GP in a Porsche 911 at the Nürburgring.
[4] During the third round of the VLN-long-distance championship of 2010, his Aston Martin V8 Vantage overturned and hit a guardrail and the rear of his car went up in flames.
He was a great-great-great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria through descent from her eldest daughter, the Victoria, Princess Royal (German Empress) (although as heir to the Roman Catholic branch of the Princely House of Löwenstein he may have been barred by the Act of Settlement from eligibility for succession to the British throne).
[citation needed] The couple had four children: Löwenstein and his family lived in the village of Laudenbach am Main in Bavaria, where they ran a vineyard.