Prince Charles-Antoine Marie Louis Eugène Lamoral de Ligne-La Trémoïlle (born 30 September 1946) is a Belgian French businessman, member of a family of the Belgian nobility, the House of Ligne.
He co-founded a company, with Christopher Harriman, LAREX Corporation, that promoted high-speed elevated transit and urban development, with environmental enhancement along the 35 miles of riverfront of the Los Angeles River corridor, including the California high-speed train from San Francisco to San Diego.
[2] He studied law at the Institut Catholique de Paris and hotel administration and management at Cornell University.
Like all members of the Ligne family, he holds the title of prince in the Belgian nobility and the style of Highness.
[3] His branch of the Ligne family are heirs in the female line of the House of La Trémoïlle, which held the rare rank of prince étranger during France's ancien régime, as pretenders to the crown of Naples.