by Scott Mehl © Unofficial Royalty 2014

Princess Claire of Luxembourg is the wife of Prince Félix, the second son of Grand Duke Henri and Maria Teresa Mestre y Batista-Falla. She was born Claire Margareta Lademacher on March 21, 1985, in Filderstadt, Germany. She is the second child of Hartmut and Gabriele Lademacher and has an older brother, Felix.

Claire began her schooling in Germany, followed by several years at the Atlanta International School in Atlanta, Georgia. The family returned to Germany in 1999 and she was enrolled at the Frankfurt International School, and then the Collège Alpin International Beau Soleil in Switzerland, graduating in 2003. After earning her Bachelors degree in International Communication from the American University of Paris, Claire spent several years working for Condé Nast and IMG World. She returned to school to pursue her Masters degree in bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome. During this time, she worked with UNESCO alongside her studies. After earning her Masters, she decided to stay in Rome to pursue her doctorate in organ donation ethics. As part of this program, she spent several months as a visiting scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University in the United States.

Claire and Félix’s engagement was announced in December 2012. The couple had met while both were students at Beau Soleil. They were married in a civil ceremony in Germany on September 17, 2013, followed by a religious ceremony on September 21, 2013, in the south of France. Following their wedding, the couple settled in Lorgues, France where they manage a winery, Château les Crostes, owned by Claire and her father.

The couple has three children:

• Princess Amalia Gabriela Maria Teresa of Nassau (born June 15, 2014)
• Prince Liam Henri Hartmut of Nassau (born on November 28, 2016)
• Prince Balthasar Felix Karl (born January 7, 2024)

Félix and Claire live in Lorgues, France, where they manage Château les Crostes, a winery owned by Claire and her father.

Prince Felix with his wife Princess Claire and his children Princess Amalia and Prince Liam, 2023; Credit – The Grand Ducal Court

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