Marco de Hohenlohe-Langenburg

[1] Prince Marco was born in Madrid, Spain, on 8 March 1962.

He was the eldest son of Prince Max of Hohenlohe-Langenburg by his then wife Ana Luisa de Medina y Fernández de Córdoba, 12th Marquise of Navahermosa and 10th Countess of Ofalia (1940−2012), who was the eldest child of Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli (1917–2013).

He succeeded as duke when his grandmother, the 18th Duchess of Medinaceli, died in 2013.

[2][3] He preserved his family's cultural heritage as director of the Fundación Medinaceli.

In 1996, he married a German citizen, Sandra Schmidt-Polex, by whom he had two children: They divorced in 2004.