[1][2][3] His paternal grandparents were Prince Eduard Franz (a son of Johann I Joseph and Landgravine Josepha of Fürstenberg-Weitra) and the former Honoria Hrabina Choloniowa-Choloniewska.
[10] In 1935, thirty-four year old Prince Ferdinand left Vienna for Addis Ababa to offer his services to Haile Selassie, the Emperor of Abyssinia (modern day Ethiopia).
When he was sent out of Finland he made fake news article about him fighting in Finnish army as one of the first foreign volunteers in unit called "ghost patrol" what didn`t exist [12][13] In 1943, he was falsely reported to have been murdered by the Gestapo in Austria.
The alleged murder, reported by his aunt, was apparently in revenge for Prince Ferdinand's help in saving fortunes of friends in Vienna.
Before divorced, they were the parents of:[4] On 21 August 1950, he married for the third time to Dorothy (née Haydel) Oelrichs (1893–1961), in East Hampton, New York.
Nadine, the former wife of Pierre Alexandre and daughter of Hubert Ansay and Lucienne Legrand, was created Prinzessin von und zu Liechtenstein on 31 June 1975.