Carl Ludwig II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg his younger brother Hermann, after he intended to marry unequally. However, he retained the title of Prince (). Carl Ludwig was married morganatically on 22 February 1861 in Paris to Maria Grathwohl (1837–1901), eldest daughter of Georg Andreas Grathwohl and his wife, Friederike Meyer. His wife, unable to share his title, was created "Baroness von Bronn" in the nobility of Württemberg, the title being made heritable for all their children and legitimate male-line descendants. They had three children: Carl Ludwig II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Carl Ludwig II, 5th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (; 25 October 182916 May 1907), was the eldest
Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark Jean d'Orléans, Duke of Guise. His godparents were his two first cousins Queen Helen, Queen Mother of Romania and King George II of Greece (eldest children of his paternal uncle King Constantine I). His father died when he was a year old, leaving Michael an only child, and his mother died in 1953 when he was 14, leaving him an orphan. Although a Greek prince, like many members of his dynasty he grew up largely abroad, sometimes in exile. As Europe marched into World War II, the infant Michael's family scattered: his mother's father, the Duke of Guise, left his