Prince Marco de Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 19th Duke of Medinaceli, GE (; ; 8 March 1962 â 19 August 2016), was a Spanish nobleman of German descent, head of the ducal House of Medinaceli and a dynast of the German princely House of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.
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 and 10th (1940âÂÂ2012), who was the eldest child of Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli (1917âÂÂ2013).
Prince Marco's mother, the previous heiress to the dukedom of Medinaceli, predeceased her mother in 2012. He succeeded as duke when his grandmother, the 18th Duchess of Medinaceli, died in 2013. He preserved his family's cultural heritage as director of the Fundación Medinaceli.
In 1996, he married a German citizen, Sandra , whose family belonged to a wealthy Frankfurt banking and industrial dynasty that rose to prominence in the 19th century, played an influential role in financial and corporate circles, and was closely connected by marriage to other prominent Frankfurt business familiesâÂÂsuch as the Andreae, de Bary, and BansaâÂÂas well as to several families of the German nobility.
They had two children:
They divorced in 2004.