Castell-Rüdenhausen
Soon after Countess Elizabeth zu-Castell Rüdenhausen, later Mrs. Duvelius, her stepson passed away:
Count Conradin of Castell-Rüdenhausen died on 1 October, nine days before his 78th Birthday.
He was born in Berlin as second child of Friedrich-Wolfgang of Castell-Rüdenhausen (1906-1940) & his first wife, Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha (1912-1983).
As a boy he experienced many "whirlwinds" in his life:
In early 1938 his parents divorced.
In June the same year his mother married again to Max Schnirring, (17 years her senior) in the same year his half-sister Calma was born.
In April next year his father married again to his distant cousin.
And 13 and a half months later was killed in action in Portland, leaving half-orphans him, his two siblings and half-brother. (in the same year Conradin's other maternal half-sister, Sybilla, was born).
In July 1944 his stepfather was killed in car crash in Stralsund, a year after birth of Conradin's youngest half-brother, Michael.
In December 1948 his mother married for the third time, to Karl-Otto Andree, but they divorced already next year.
On 6 July 1961 he married in Helsinki Marta Lonegren (b.1939). Exactly nine months and one day later, their daughter Anne-Charlotte was born. They also had a son, Carl-Eduard, born15 March 1964.
Apart from his wife and children he is survived also by five grandson and one granddaughter, as well as brother Bertram (b.1932), sister Victoria (b.1935), half-brother Hesso (b.1940), half sisters Calma and Sybilla and their families (his youngest half-brother Michael predeceased him in 1966, aged 23)
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Descendants of Queen Victoria's siblings
Also
Countess Michaela of Castell-Rüdenhausen died in Grunwald on 19 August.
She was born in Munich on 4 October 1945 as second daughter of Count Wulf of Castell-Rüdenhausen (1905-1980 ) & his second wife, Luise Ullrich (1911-1985).
She married in Kempten on 5 January 1968 Bernd Rosemeyer (b.1937).
Apart from her husband she is survived by her sister, Gabriele (b.1943)
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