Ernst August von Hannover (born 1954)

He left secondary school at the age of 15 to work on a farm, but returned to education a bit later to study at the Royal Agricultural College in England and the University of Guelph in Canada.

[7] As the senior male-line descendant of George III of the United Kingdom, Ernst August is head of the House of Hanover.

[citation needed] The hereditary Dukedom of Cumberland and Teviotdale and the Earldom of Armagh, borne in 1917 by his paternal great-grandfather, were suspended under the Titles Deprivation Act 1917.

[10] However, in addition to being a German, Ernst August also has British citizenship since his father had successfully claimed it under the Sophia Naturalization Act 1705 (in the case of Attorney-General v. Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover).

In 1988, Ernst August unsuccessfully claimed custody of his infant nephew Otto Heinrich, son of his younger brother, Prince Ludwig Rudolph of Hanover.

The infant's mother, Countess Isabella von Thurn und Valsássina-Como-Vercelli, died of a cocaine overdose on 28 November 1988.

[15][17] Custody of Otto Heinrich was eventually awarded, contrary to the expressed wishes of Ludwig Rudolph as the surviving parent and Ernst August's legal efforts, to the child's maternal grandparents, Count Ariprand (1925–1996) and Countess Maria von Thurn und Valsassina-Como-Vercelli (born 1929), to be raised at their family seat, Bleiburg Castle in southern Austria.

[18] Similarly the Monégasque court officially notified the government of France of Caroline's marriage to Ernst August, receiving assurance that there was no objection in compliance with the (since defunct) Franco-Monegasque Treaty of 1918.

[3] After their marriage, Ernst August and Caroline moved to Le Mée-sur-Seine, France, where they had purchased an 18th-century manor house from their friend Karl Lagerfeld.

Instead, the younger Ernst August was put in charge, reportedly for negligence on part of his father,[31] at the initiative of the foundation's trustee Prince Michael of Liechtenstein.

In 2017, Ernst August filed legal action to recover his chairmanship, and he intends to revoke the bestowal of his German property.

Due to this dispute over family assets, he also declared his intention to withhold consent for his son's marriage to Ekaterina Malysheva,[33] which he did not attend.

He later received a ten-month suspended jail sentence from an Austrian court, was required to move to a different residence, and obtain psychological counselling.