Prince Gustav Albert of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg was baptized on Saturday in the chapel of Berleburg Castle, in Westphalia (Germany). The only child of Princes Gustau and Carina of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg in May became the first member of a European royal family to be born through surrogacy in the United States.
His six godparents were Prince Christian of Denmark, the eldest son of Crown Prince Frederik and Mary; Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, first cousin of Prince Gustav and King Philip VI; the actress Ellen Hillingsø; Arabella Gaggero; Prince Francis Albert of Oettingen-Spielberg, and Prince Charles Antony of Waldeck and Pyrmont.
In addition to Prince Christian, who will turn 18 on October 15, his parents and Princess Benedicta, sister of Margaret II of Denmark and grandmother of the christened child, attended the meeting.
The child's parents, he is 54 years old and she is 55 years old, have started a new life after it was decided in a German court that the will of the grandfather of Prince Gustau, which set strict rules about the consorts of the house Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, was no longer binding. As a family spokesman explained, "the ideas of the Nazi era no longer had any legal or moral basis".
Once the lawsuit was settled in 2020, following a lawsuit by a relative of the prince, Ludwig Ferdinand, who claimed part of the inheritance, the couple married in June 2022 and began the procedures to bring an heir into the world .
