Marriage
On 21 October 1977 Prince Leopold married Ursula (Uschi) Möhlenkamp, the daughter of Wilhelm (Willi) Möhlenkamp and Ingeborg Brauckmann. The civil ceremony took place at Berg on Lake Starnberg in Bavaria. The religious ceremony followed a month later, on 19 November 1977 in Aufkirchen, Bavaria. Initially the union was considered morganatic, but on 3 March 1999 the marriage was decreed to be conditionally dynastic in accordance with the Bavarian house laws. Since his son Manuel married dynastically, he is kept in line of succession. The couple have four children:
- Prince Manuel of Bavaria (b. out of wedlock in 1972)
- Princess Maria del Pilar of Bavaria (b. 1978)
- Princess Maria Felipa of Bavaria (b. 1981)
- Prince Konstantin of Bavaria (b. 1986)
Read more about this topic: Prince Leopold Of Bavaria (b. 1943)
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