16x9 - Royal Secret: European Prince living in Canada

[@FRIDA.13]

He seems to be nice guy, very humble with a beautiful family, and that's what counts after all

[@dontrespond1916]

Dulce Primavera yes. Nicely put.

[@astra7015]

This humble prince can be proud of his grand father for sure .

[@Madeleinedeburgh-vt6lb]

Most Royals and truly old upper families tend to be extremely nice and well mannered... unlike the fakes

[@Braveheart.22]

My mum used to say it doesn't matter who your ancestors were , it matters what your character is. IT appears this family has both.

[@SaxonC]

Madeleine deburgh01144 sometimes it’s all for show but there are some that are genuinely nice people (of course i don’t know any Personally). Now many people who have been on Prince Charles’ staff have said he’s really a nasty man with an equally nasty employer and actually believes that he’s

[@alingkinai7520]

@jodeofoz rappers..

[@Braveheart.22]

@jodeofoz ...Actually..many of the actresses have developed character as opposed to being a character.They have chosen to use their platform to champion humanitarian causes. Of course you are right...most of them are still caught up on the superficiality.

[@Piggybjorn]

you will never know the real one until you live close and connected to, but I agree, this prince is awesome

[@anamariagutierrez2019]

Prince Hermann Friedrich of Leiningen & his Family looks like a Very Nice down to Earth people.

[@AvaT42]

Such a lovely family. Those children have been raised well

[@freedolphin3077]

The way he speaks says a true prince. Even in such low keys,he has that attention grabbing,fearless and respectful quality about him that's just gotta be genetic.

[@johnson2joy]

No not gentic, just living a life based on universal principles and values which taps into your core being. The appreciation of beauty is a start!

[@izafri]

One thing for sure,, he has very nice facial structure. Very handsome also

[@ukrainiansongs]

I agree, I noticed that right away. you can't miss it :)

[@Loulou-sr3tk]

A lot more than the English royals: maybe Andrew was good looking when he was young but the others, no, no.

[@kristine6996]

Boris of Bulgaria, a king with the heart on the right place 💙. Respect.

[@dudeonlygamingandotherstuf7791]

Uniter of the People.

[@christinecameron1612]

Pretty rude of them to out him like that, seems like he's gone to a good deal of work to arrange his nice quiet life exactly how he likes it.

[@Shinobi_moon717]

That's what I thought too 😕 sometimes people just want a normal life.

[@danchambers3852]

I mean he had to agree to an interview they didn’t just barge into their house and demanded to speak to them

[@cherylvantil6918]

Fascinating story. He seems like a very nice gentleman.

[@samkohen4589]

His father, Prince Karl moved to Israel where he spent the last 20 years of his life living in deliberate obscurity on a kibbutz. It was only when hr passed away in 1990 did the people there discovered who he really was

[@kirkepstein6904]

See my response above. Small correction, he lived at Vered HaGalil, an American Western style dude ranch (privately owned, not a kibbutz), at that time, that has since expanded.

[@kirkepstein6904]

I lived with his dad, Karl, while I was a horseback tour guide in Israel at Vered HaGalil in the 1980's. His dad lived modestly. One day while he and I were hanging out smoking our pipes, sipping brandy, and discussing The Hobbit, I asked him why everyone called him Prince Karl, thinking it was a nickname. He told me he was really a prince. I laughed thinking he was joking. Karl then invited me to go with him to Germany for a family event. He said money wasn't a problem and his family had castles and estates scattered around Europe. I didn't go; I didn't want to be an imposition, plus, I had the horses to care for. Unfortunately, Karl passed a few years later. I'll remember him as an artistic humble generous friend.

[@annfeeney1662]

It’s delightful to see a news piece of a family of royal blood that relates to common people .

[@fritzvila]

He speaks in a vey humble manner...

[@mistyblue750]

I like him and his family.. That is true nobility... Ty god bless

[@Saucyakld]

He had great parents, long live a normal king! He sounds like a great man!

[@pefopefo5195]

Greetings from Bulgaria. Long life monarchy.

[@earthakitt3661]

Haha.. "He's wearing a princely shirt."

[@gailhandschuh1138]

Eartha Kitt a Princely Shirt is a dress shirt with French Cuffs look again at how the cuffs are turned back and you will see !!

[@SuperJajaco]

What a history. He is grand-son of King Boris of Bulgaria, great-grand-son og King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, great-grand-son of King Victor of Italy, great-great-grand-son on King Nicolas of Montenegro great-great-great-grand-son of King Philipe of France

[@mediaboyz9848]

+Jan Jacobsen Agreed! I'm working on my family history, who descend from Europe and its amazing. But to imagine who this guy is related to. Very cool!

[@SuperJajaco]

Great. Hope you find your ancestors. I have tracked mine back to the year 1249

[@yellyman5483]

He is also a great great grandson of Queen Victoria of Great Britain

[@chelseytyler88]

Royalty tracked my genealogy recently

[@snifey2233]

So he's house of windsor romanov bonaparte boris tsar loyalist amd many more i didn't learn of all royal houses in europe

[@larikipe940]

I am 6,468,957,345th in line to be king of England.

[@belleseastonebassguard9425]

LMFAO . OMG NOW THISSSSSS MADE ME SMILE GOD DAMN IT. .. THANK YOU

[@subscribersWithnovideos-gd5yj]

What a coincidence I’m 6,468,957,344th bet you by one there buddy

[@SusanLynn656]

Oh really? Well my dog Bella is a cousin twice removed from the original Rin Tin Tin!

[@意-w6t]

.I.

[@Saucyakld]

Hahaha, I am 2 before you! But I will stand on the side and you can stand in front of me lol

[@MrHalazoon]

That pretty girl (Tatiana) and I used to work in Fidelity investments call center down town Toronto as phone representatives! She's really nice!

[@mowtow90]

The good this is that 2 of them carry Bulgarian names (because of their grandmother).

[@z15503]

I love how these royalties are living a regular life. Tbh, I think all royals wished they could live a normal life. I know poor Diana wished she could.😢😢😢

[@ilciavargas7318]

He is a very handsome prince!.

[@msannetrophy8542]

what is a princely shirt?

[@kevinlongman007]

Exactly. The Canadians do chat bs sometimes.

[@BernardS4]

Any shirt that he is wearing.

[@nenikiato3230]

Maybe he wear shirts that is more common for weddings.

[@pepitawahren9010]

P

[@pepitawahren9010]

@@nenikiato3230 m0

[@countessofalava6532]

This makes me realize a lot of stuff about my dad and his family, mostly their comment about the portraits since my dad also looks like every one of our ancestors.

[@dylanpsinakis7930]

Both his cousins Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen and Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna were the front runners as claimant of Russias Throne.... This guy had a great line of Royalty running in his viens. A descendant of Alexander ll of Russia ,Queen Victoria, Victor Emanuel lll of Italy and Boris lll of Bulgaria is a great big thing. He had a clean straight blood royal.

[@DetroitLives313]

That was a great story.

[@RaymondHng]

Wikipedia says he works in Toronto for RBC Global Asset Management Inc., a division of the Royal Bank of Canada. He uses the name "Hermann Leiningen" professionally.

[@ivandinsmore6217]

They didn't get invited to see the "Queen of England" . There has not been a Queen of England since 1707. Elizabeth II is Queen of Canada and her other realms.

[@MasterMind468]

This man descends from Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha

[@countraymond.1v701]

Yes a visigoth .

[@loveeaother3180]

I always loved the story of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria She was never the same after he died

[@patriciajhs1720]

@@loveeaother3180 My Great Great Great Grandma was never the same after Her real husband Lord John Elphinstone was killed at King Street.

[@letitiakearney2423]

Patricia JHS He was never married.

[@patriciajhs1720]

@@letitiakearney2423 What is needed is a legitimate DNA study And yes there are even pictures of his marrying the then Princess Victoria. Note the hairline and shape of the head in the images. Besides why was Victoria so mad at her mother? Because wiith the help of the then Prime Minister, Lord John Elphinstone was shipped off to India. As far as Victoria knew he was dead. But as soon as she found out the truth Queen Victoria finally located him and had Lord Elphinstone by her side.

[@chelseytyler88]

Such a cute family!

[@RoyBower]

So King Simeon of Bulgaria would be a first cousin once removed, right? It seems the Bulgarian throne would be closest to him.

[@M4xlos]

I believe Simeon is this guy's uncle. Since Marie Louise is Simeon's sister (and Hermann's mother).

[@countraymond.1v701]

No Austrian goth line

[@ryanhuntrajput474]

So he is 131st in line for the throne of UK and COMMONWEALTH REALMS which means he has a claim on crown of Canada as well 👑🇨🇦

[@1bibliomania]

Take a look at the European constitutional monarchies - Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, etc...how are they doing economically during the financial crisis in the rest of Europe, the rest of the world, here in the U.S. These constitutional monarchies are NOT going through an economic crisis, far from it - their citizens (not subjects, because it is a constitutional monarchy) have the highest standard of living after Switzerland which is a world of its own...

[@Vierotchka]

He is my 8th cousin three times removed via my mother's line, and my 9th cousin five times removed via my father's line.

[@forsythbill1]

Also in line to be king of Canada.

[@SaxonC]

I’m unique because my Father is the King of Kings and there isn’t any line of succession because God is Eternal. 👍

[@scunningham6109]

What do they mean with princely shirt? In Europe middle class men wear that very similar type of shirt. What do they wear in Canada?

[@adibleesimmons]

SC Sc peasantly shirt?

[@egyptiandenica]

I surmise it was an off the cuff remark meaning a prince was wearing a shirt to mow the lawns.

[@SSs-ch4ey]

To mow the lawn? Most people wear t-shirts

[@charmander777]

tank tops

[@Rin-le7cx]

Wahahhahahahhaha

[@TheAnn2shoes]

The other interesting Canadian/Royal story is that Autumn Kelly did not know she was dating the Queen's grandson until she saw him on the television with Prince William 6 weeks later.

[@firefly361]

Why do they keep saying King of England? Its King of United Kingdom. English monarchy died with death of Elizabeth I.

[@menchualcarazmoreno1743]

Sexual Chocolate Robbie I'm sorry, but outside the UK everybody calls Elizabeth Queen of England.

[@Robob0027]

The English Monarchy did not die with the death of Elizabeth 1. It continued until the Act of Union in 1707. England and Scotland shared the same monarchs but each was the monarch of the respective countries. Hence James 1 of England was titled James VI in Scotland. Only after the Act of Union 1707 did the monarch of both countries become known as the King/Queen of the United Kingdom.

[@ryanhuntrajput474]

@@menchualcarazmoreno1743 well educated people don't.

[@menchualcarazmoreno1743]

@@ryanhuntrajput474 Everybody, unless they are speaking in a official event. At least in France and Spain, the two countries I know.

[@jbyanx]

She went to all his neighbours " did you know your neighbor aas a prince " 🤣

[@Pinkcouture111]

Lovely family with manners and style a asset

[@biancahotca3244]

So then why on Earth would he live in Canada if he has a castle waiting for him in Europe? If I were him, I'd move myself straight to Europe. He still seems pretty wealthy to me, well off.

[@4nt4r4y]

A lot of nobility are rich in honorific titles and even inherited properties but not necessarily in cash and liquid assets.

[@RaymondHng]

German nobility titles were abolished during the German Revolution of 1918-1919. Today, German nobility is no longer conferred by the Federal Republic of Germany (1949- ), and constitutionally the descendants of German noble families do not enjoy legal privileges. The Prince of Leingingen is a title that is held in pretence only. Hermann's father, Karl, was not the first-born son of the 6th Prince of Leiningen. The title was succeeded by Karl's older brother, Emich Kirii. The current pretender to the title is Hermann's cousin, Andreas.

[@4nt4r4y]

@@RaymondHng what is a pretender to the title?

[@RaymondHng]

@@4nt4r4y A pretender is one who maintains or is able to maintain a claim that they are entitled to a position of honor or rank, which may be occupied by an incumbent (usually more recognized), or whose powers may currently be exercised by another person or authority. Most often, it refers to a former monarch, or descendant thereof, whose throne is occupied, claimed by a rival or has been abolished. In layman's terms, a pretender would be the holder of the title if the abolished monarchy or nobility were to be restored. For example, Constantine II was the last king of the Greek monarchy before it was abolished. Since the Greek monarchy no longer exists, he is now the pretender to the Greek throne. His oldest son who is the heir apparent will be the next pretender of the Greek monarchy after his death.

[@brendamcdonall5798]

There is also a cousin of Queen Elizabeth's who lived a very normal, average life in the Bonnie Doon area of Edmonton.

[@mrryencoke]

This man's name should be placed in dictionaries within the definitions of a Gentleman!

[@greenblood64]

Beautiful family!

[@elisecooper1942]

leave it to the media to mess up a guy's life he was living very quietly very happy before the media stepped in and told the entire neighborhood now he'll be watched day and night no peace at all thanks media poparazzi😯

[@ludastout2852]

Paparazzi 😨

[@SSs-ch4ey]

I'm sure he consented to all of it

[@aph5816]

He is now setup to be robbed.

[@ashtonariel9086]

I jumped on my seat when she said he lives in Toronto and stopped the video at 2:19. Never mind.

[@youngin5112]

I swear I saw Kaiser Wilhelm next to Tsar Nicholas II

[@mediaboyz9848]

Wow I love this story! Thanks for sharing

[@Bernie1927]

His name should be: Hermann Friedrich Prince von Leiningen. In 1919 all German titles disappeared and became part of the last names. I that not correct?

[@AviationAddict69]

Bernie1927 Not in 1918, but 100 years ago, after the Napoleonic Wars. There was a mediatization of the small principalities in Germany following the war.

[@ludastout2852]

Same way everybody calls the US America. But There is Central America there. And even South America ( too far away to notice)

[@piratesswoop725]

It would be Hermann Friedrich Prinz zu Leiningen, not von. The Leiningens always used zu rather than von.

[@maggiemae7749]

The House of Hanover??

[@masterkiter89]

Amorbach!!!! that's insane, I live just a few minutes north of it...

[@EDMOIL]

He is a direct descendent of the British Royal Family. How related? Prince Hermann Friedrich is the 5th cousin of Prince William's son, Prince George.

[@koflondon1064]

Prince Hermann is the great, great, great, great grandson of Queen Victoria through her son Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. His Grandmother was Princess Maria, the daughter of Princess Victoria-Melita of Edinburgh, Alfred's daughter.

[@RaymondHng]

+EDMOIL Hermann of Leiningen is actually the 4th cousin to Charles, Prince of Wales, 4th cousin once removed to William, Duke of Cambridge, and 4th cousin twice removed to George of Cambridge.

[@RaymondHng]

+Keith McKee Hermann is 3X great grandson of Victoria , not 4X.

[@minorka2]

+RaymondHng he is related to all the monarchs of europe thanks to inbreeding

[@magzsara9892]

My ancestor was the shortest serving Prime Minister of the UK.. Hopefully Boris Johnston will take the title from him..

[@EmitteVeritatum]

I'm 38 years old but still wonder if they'd consider adopting me.

[@davidtracey9094]

EmitteVeritatum LOL

[@bluee4943]

if they adopt you. adopt me too, im 23 years old

[@cookingwithvia]

Inspiring human being; handsome, humble yet manner

[@tedsprague5599]

Very humble and nice prince. Awesome guy

[@janjohnsonamarillas3386]

Very nice and down to earth man !

[@francisgriffith462]

I'm afraid that after he was reminded of how far he is in the line of succession he would do something to reduce the number.

[@steveriggan8944]

I am connected to Prince Hermann as well. My immigrant ancestress Diana Skipwith Dale escaped to America after 1650 with her brother Sir Grey Skipwith, 3rd bt. and settled. Her great grandmother, Jane Hall Skipwith, was descended from King Edward I and Earls of Arundel. Lady Jane Hall Skipwith's father Francis Hall, son of Francis Hall and Elizabeth Wingfield, had a sister Alice Hall who married Sir Henry Sutton. Their great granddaughter Susan Sutton married William Oglethorpe and their grandson Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe is where the interesting things happen. Theophilus had four children but the youngest two were of interest. One was James Oglethorpe who founded the Georgia colony in America. Theophilus' daughter Eleanor Oglethorpe married a French marquis Eugene Marie de Bethisy. Their granddaughter Louise de Rohan married Louis III de Lorraine, Prince de Brionne and had a daughter Princesse Josefa de Lorraine-Brionne who became the wife of Vittorio Amadeo II, Duke de Carignan. They became the grandparents of Carlo Alberto I, King of Sardinia who died in 1849. His great grandson was Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, died 1943 whose daughter Princess Giovanna of Savoy married Boris III, King of Bulgaria and were the parents of Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria, Prince Hermann's mother! Relationships like this are not all that uncommon in the United States, but most people don't know they have at least one or two royal immigrant ancestors like mine.

[@kiddcook]

Steve Riggan How did you find this out?

[@steveriggan8944]

Thanks for your query on this. Our family is well documented in American and British records by wills, marriage, death and land records both sides of the Atlantic. The Italian royal family is also well documented in all their lines including the one going back through the House of Rohan in France to the Mezieres family on to the Oglethorpe, Sutton and Hall family from which I descend. Prince Hermann's ancestress Alice Hall Sutton (sister of my ancestor Francis Hall of Grantham, Lincolnshire) was also ancestral to Princess Diana and the Dukes of Richmond. Edmund Hall of Gretford, Lincolnshire, was another brother and was also ancestral to Princess Diana, the Earls of Carnarvon and Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and David Cameron. Francis Hall, in addition to my own family, was ancestor to Prince Rainier of Monaco through the Dukes of Hamilton and Brandon (Rainier's great grandmother was English). We were fortunate to have records to back up our research and prove the lineage from my grandmother back.

[@tnticesp]

+Steve Riggan fascinating

[@mariaretinasarmiento1050]

Steve Riggan if you are related to the royals well I am descended from a Spanish grandee the 1st Marques of Ariza the oldest title of the nobility in the Kingdom of Spain. one of his sons came here to the Philippines to colonise

[@desinoz]

Wow

[@caridaddiazmartell8500]

Gracias hermosa familia bendiciones

[@mowtow90]

He is actually closer to the Bulgarian throne then the UK. His uncle Tzar Simon II is the current Tzar (even tho Bulgaria is no longer a monarchy). We are still calling him Tzar ,because he was coronated during the war. His right to rulle was cut durring the Soviet occupation of Bulgaria in 1945 when the communist party was installed into power and past a law banning the Monarch and started the transition to People's Republic of Bulgaria.

[@RaymondHng]

Simeon II of Bulgaria can be seen at 2:54

[@Durchlacht]

Interesting how the media portrayed this as out of the ordinary. There are many of us whose families left Europe and settled in America and Canada. I share all of the same relatives and have lived in America most of my life.

[@anatheistmyself]

My then girl classmate's great grandmother was a princess from the Qing Dynasty. I, myself, am descended from nobility. I was *incredibly surprised* at the time! From that day on, I *never* fought with her *ever* again, no matter how bad the disagreement!

[@456inthemix]

Come to old Europe or old world there are full of Royalties

[@Piggybjorn]

so, his great grandmother is princess Victoria Melita of Saxe Coburg Gotha and his great grandfather is grand duke Cyrill Vladimirovich. I thought there are several of European royal descendants live in Canada, US and France.

[@mrryencoke]

As for Canada, the latest polling results i encountered show only 14% of Canadians feel any sort of attachment to the monarchy! If that figure seems low, take into consideration that having "attachment to the monarchy" does NOT mean the same as "recognize them as our monarchs". In over 40 years I have never heard a single Canadian refer to Elizabeth2 as the Queen of Canada! Don't get me wrong here, she has always been held in highest regard and VERY respected, but the concept of a monarch is just tradition, and their royal title nothing more than honourary. I am actually shocked that they put his image on our $1 coin or "loonie" which should now be renamed "Dopey", for the "looking bastard" Canadians will be forced to look at!

[@Militaria-pr9rj]

I hate how the Canadian media refers to the monarch as "King/Queen of England" and the throne as "British" we're in CANADA people, we have a Canadian royal family and she's the Queen of Canada.

[@Louboutinjr]

Yeah, Elizabeth ii. Also queen of england

[@lorddaver1935]

+Allan Jensen She is NOT the Queen of England. The last Queen of England was Elizabeth I, who died in 1603. Her successor was King James VI of Scotland, who inherited the English throne as well, becoming James I of England. He was known as James VI of Scotland and Ist of England and his joint kingdom became the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Queen Elizabeth II is Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain (which comprises England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland. Sorry to labour the point, but if you are Scottish, as I am (or Welsh or Northern Irish) you get sick of hearing her referred to only as "The Queen of England".

[@lorddaver1935]

+Allan Jensen She is NOT the Queen of England. The last Queen of England was Elizabeth I, who died in 1603. Her successor was King James VI of Scotland, who inherited the English throne as well, becoming James I of England. He was known as James VI of Scotland and Ist of England and his joint kingdom became the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Queen Elizabeth II is Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain (which comprises England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland. Sorry to labour the point, but if you are Scottish, as I am (or Welsh or Northern Irish) you get sick of hearing her referred to only as "The Queen of England".

[@Militaria-pr9rj]

+lord daver My apologies, it is not that i am unaware of the differences between the English and British crowns (union of the crowns, acts of union 1707, etc.); merely pointing out the ignorance of the media on this side of the pond.

[@terrybaby6146]

lord daver: Am I wrong in thinking that a lot of Scots would be happy for her to referred to as Queen of England if it meant she was no longer had anything to do with Scotland? If Scotland did become independent, would it remain in the Commonwealth, as, say, Australia intended to had it achieved a Yes result in the Referendum about the republic?

[@Lederius18]

I love this

[@josephbloggs4521]

Queen/King of the *United Kingdom* not England.

[@patriciamartin6756]

Prince Harry needs to take lessons from him

[@CaridadDíazMartell-g5c]

Muy guapo gracias felicidades bendiciones

[@Jenn1842]

does this mean their sort of related to Prince William in way because they both have the same grandmother which is Queen Victoria

[@minorka2]

Not sort of ...they are related period because they are directly descendants of queen Victoria of uk

[@RaymondHng]

@@minorka2 His daughter Princess Tatiana of Leiningen and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge are 5th cousins. Hermann and William are 4th cousins once removed. You can see his place on the royal family tree at this diagram I created at drive.google.com/file/d/0B4amUjzrbgdmZk1DMklfcXkyWlk/view

[@esotericfirestorm5134]

Lmao. South Park Prince Of Canada

[@markperez8177]

If he really is an extended member of the British Royal Family and he is living in Canada, why can't he be their own solely resident King of Canada?

[@bridecolbourne1305]

Handsome man 💗

[@felixnuwahid9879]

What a well behave prince

[@andrewaway]

Great story.

[@BalthasarCarduelis]

If one of the daughters were to marry a Native Chief, and together they had a child, and the child grew-up to become Governor General, then perhaps the (by then) King overseas would gift to that particular Governor General the Crown of Canada itself.

[@margaridabras9281]

Sooooo cute 💓💖💖

[@Dutchkuno]

I like his voice tone ...

[@visenyatargaryen9130]

One of his cousin is a singer. Her name is Mafalda. Her song kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2bXmmWjpZ5-oMk Boris -> Simeon -> Kyril -> Mafalda. Boris -> Marie Louise -> Hermann.

[@MrDannyDetail]

Actually two things worth pointing out, firstly the report says Hermann is in line to be King Of England, when they should say Great Britain and Northern Ireland etc. Also there's a distinction between the head of the family. who is Furst zu Leiningen and other members in the male line who're Prinz/essin X zu Leiningen. The Furst is a prince on par with our British princes, whilst the Prinzs and Prinzessins are members of the princely family with a status below our Princes, hence HSH not HRH.

[@joeragliardo]

The fact that his grandmother ( Giovanna of Savoy, wife of King Boris ) was daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy it is obviously irrelevant...

[@margaritamartin4424]

Giovanna's mother was Jelena of Montenegro, daughter of King Nicholas I.

[@sofiasantos4558]

Not at all , is very important in the family tree, Italian royal family is not a little thing or [ irrelevant].

[@bing9996]

If I'm not wrong through their grandmothers, the Romanov sisters, Maria and Kira, he and George Friedrich of Prussia are second cousins. Their great grandma, Victoria melita, was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria through her second son Alfred.

[@bing9996]

He the 4th cousin uncle of prince William 😊

[@bmwbmw5255]

This guy would be king in his dream.

[@MrDannyDetail]

So Queen Victoria, for example, may only have recognised the Furst as a true Prince, and not all the Prinzs, of which Hermann is one. Then again the Leiningens were her half-sister Feodora's family even before one of them married a descendant of Victoria's so she may have reserved the right to bend the rules regarding their status.

[@filipematias5127]

Queen Victoria also had an older maternal half-brother named Prince Carl Zu Leiningen who was the younger brother of Princess Feodora Zu Leiningen!

[@billijomaynard8924]

Actually it is not that uncommon this day in age to have royals as ancestors. The Plantagenets who ruled England and held many titles in France have millions of living descendants, two members of the family in particular are common ancestors, King Henry II of England who was the first Plantagenet King, he had 10 children with his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine but also had several more with mistresses. The second is King Edward III who had 9 children. Some of king Edward III descendants you may have heard of include Valerie Burtinelli, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ioan Grufford, John Lennon, Ralph and Joseph Fiennes to name a few. Also every royal house of England since Edward and the majority of the royal houses of Europe are descended from him and Henry as well. In fact the estimate is that at 6 out of every 10 people from Great Britain, The United States, Canada, Australia and European countries are Plantagenet descendants. if you have European ancestry, search your family tree. you just might fight some Plantagenet dna lurking in the gene pool.

[@MrDannyDetail]

This report starts so badly, "the city's his kingdom"...really? so he's the King of Toronto? erm nope. He was wearing a princely shirt to mow the lawn. oh really? so all his neighbours mow the lawn wearing rags? "Your neighbour's a prince". .."What a royal one?!", as if they might've meant the popstar or someone with the surname Prince or something. Once you see passed the weird reporting the facts do seem to be true though.

[@ballantynemoyes8019]

King of England! If this is a Canadian program then they should know better. There is no such title and hasn't been for a couple of hundred years.

[@fromkazan]

Good looking guy😊

[@Iconic58]

Wow hes very attractive in a stable, solid kind of way. Must be thstvitalian blood.

[@salvadorcruz1446]

Prince....principalities.

[@oliviapetrinidimonforte6640]

No. Being a prince is not just being related to statues or descended from kings and queens. Most people are. When you bear a title it means that you have the responsibility of the House: its honor and continuation.

[@ClemvSt]

"Prince" can mean several things. It can be a noble title, often given to children of monarchs, but not always. There were princes also who did not descend from kings, but who ruled a vassal principality on behalf of a king. Sometimes vassal principalities later became independent. Monaco and Liechtenstein for instance. The prince of Wales is still a vassal, however. The word can further be used, as a translation of "Fürst," for any independent nobleman who lost his (/without a) liege lord. In that last sense you could call the Grand-duke of Luxembourg a "prince." By the same token some kings and queens used to call themselves "princes" sometimes (Elisabeth I for instance), to stress their independence from any emperor. But Germany is a republic, so there are no German princes at all. No royal princes and no noble princes. And independent princes are independent, so they are not German. They have their own countries.

[@annamarieeltanal]

He married a beauitifula and kind and dkwn to earth woman.

[@Staredowngun]

interesting story. wish you would have touched apon how this gentleman earns his living.

[@Aquarius.]

christ, these royals are blooming everywhere aren't they?!

[@miltonroberts7948]

Many people in the U.S. have a touch of Royal ancestry, or more. than a touch. I am supposedly descended from Mary Boleyn ,the sister of Anne. She was a mistress of Henry VIII before Anne returned from France. She had a husband,but the rule was if you were mistress of the king,there was NO physical intimacy with hubby. So during this time she had a son and a daughter. Hubby was dutiful to the king and rewarded with lands and titles,so the son, Henry was thought at the time to be a Royal bastard, so I MAY be descended from the nasty old King Henry. Nothing to be proud of there. BUT MANY Americans have connections to royalty to nobility,usually more than one. We are all related to each other in the end. Titles or fame are just fun things to think about . It is also fun to consider Collateral kinfolks. Descendants of one of your ancestors through another line.You can end up related to presidents, general's wives, or Jesse James. So RELAX and have fun with it.

[@ryanhuntrajput474]

GOD BLESS THE PRINCE 🤴.

[@rebekkariblet4500]

How awesome 😎