Prince Christian of Hanover

On 24 November 2017, Christian married Peruvian lawyer Alessandra de Osma (born 1988), daughter of Felipe de Osma Berckemeyer and Elizabeth Foy Vásquez, during a civil service at the Chelsea and Westminster register office in London. The Osma family holds the Spanish title, Count of Vistaflorida. The current titleholder is Alessandra's cousin, José Domingo de Osma y Wakonigg, 9th Count of Vistaflorida. The couple celebrated their religious wedding on 16 March 2018 at St. Peter's Church, Lima, with Bishop Norbert Klemens Strotmann of the Lima archdiocese officiating.

In 2004, Christian's father signed over to his sons the German property of the House of Hanover, including Marienburg Castle. The two brothers hired a Sotheby's team to auction off some of the castle's content in order to save its finances.

Prince Christian of Hanover (Christian Heinrich Clemens Paul Frank Peter Welf Wilhelm-Ernst Friedrich Franz; born 1 June 1985) is a German noble, the younger son of Ernst August, Prince of Hanover, and his first wife, Chantal Hochuli. He is second in the line of succession to the former Hanoverian throne, after his elder brother, Prince Ernst August. As a descendant of Queen Victoria, through her daughter, Empress Frederick, Christian is also in the line of succession to the British throne.

Hanover was born Christian Heinrich Clemens Paul Frank Peter Welf Wilhelm Ernst Friedrich Franz on 1 June 1985 in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, West Germany. His parents Ernst August, Prince of Hanover, and Chantal Hochuli, an heiress to a Swiss chocolate company, divorced on 23 October 1997. Less than two years later, on 23 January 1999, his father married Princess Caroline of Monaco, from whom he is currently separated. Hanover has one elder brother, Prince Ernst August, and a younger half-sister from his father's second marriage, Princess Alexandra. He also has two stepbrothers and one stepsister — Andrea, Pierre and Charlotte Casiraghi — from Princess Caroline's previous marriage.

Hanover was baptised on 14 July 1985 at Marienburg Castle in the presence of Prince Heinrich Julius of Hanover, Prince Clemens of Croÿ, Paul Schenker, Frank Hochuli, Count Peter Seilern, Prince Welf Henry of Hanover, Baron Wilhelm-Ernst von Cramm and Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; he was named after all his godfathers.

Christian's name in Germany thus is Christian Heinrich Clemens Paul Frank Peter Welf Wilhelm-Ernst Friedrich Franz Prinz von Hanover, where Prinz von Hanover is his last name, not his title. The right of princes of Hanover under the monarchy to the traditional style of Royal Highness was abolished in 1919 and where attributed is thus by custom.

After the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the establishment of the Weimar Republic in 1919, legal recognition of hereditary titles was abolished. Since the introduction of the Weimar Constitution, the use of titles in Germany has been unofficial, while legally they are retained only as surnames.