HRH Princess Claire of Luxembourg;
Credit: © Helmut Fricke
Her Royal Highness Princess Claire of Luxembourg, born on 21 March 1985 in Filderstadt in southern Germany, will celebrate her 39th birthday on Thursday.
Princess Claire, born Claire Margareta Lademacher, is the second child of Hartmut and Gabriele Lademacher. She has an older brother, Félix Lademacher. She spent her childhood with her family in Usingen, Germany.
On 21 September 2013, His Royal Highness Prince Félix of Luxembourg, the second child of Their Royal Highnesses Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg, and Claire (who became Her Royal Highness Princess Claire of Luxembourg, Princess of Nassau) got married in the Basilica of Sainte Marie-Madeleine de Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume in France. The couple had met at boarding school in Switzerland.
Princess Claire and Prince Félix have a daughter and two sons. Princess Amalia Gabriela Maria Teresa was born on 15 June 2014 at the Maternité Grande-Duchesse Charlotte in Luxembourg. Prince Liam Henri Hartmut was born on 28 November 2016 at the Clinique Générale-Beaulieu in Geneva and Prince Balthazar Félix Karl was born on 7 January 2024 at the Maternité Grande-Duchesse Charlotte in Luxembourg.
Princess Claire studied International Communications at the American University of Paris. She also gained work experience at the Condé Nast publishing house in New York and Munich, before working at IMG World in Berlin.
In 2009, after obtaining a Master's degree in Bioethics with summa cum laude at the Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum University in Rome, Princess Claire enrolled in doctoral studies to deepen her knowledge of this field. At the same time, she worked for the UNESCO Chair of Bioethics and Human Rights. In order to obtain her PhD, Princess Claire presented her thesis on the ethical aspects of consent to organ donation in Rome. As part of the research for her thesis, she was invited as a guest researcher at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University in Washington DC.
Princess Claire and Prince Félix have been managing the Château les Crostes wine estate in France since 2013. Princess Claire is also the co-founder of a children's clothing and decorating company called Young Empire.
Alongside her professional and family commitments, Princess Claire is still closely following the developments in the field of bioethics. In February 2018, Princess Claire was a visiting professor at the Faculty of Bioethics at the Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum University in Rome. The Princess attended the Ethics in Action ('Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking, and Access to Justice for the Poor and Vulnerable') conference at the Pontificia Academia Scientiarum of the Vatican in March 2018. In March 2019, she was a speaker in the panel discussion on the inclusion of children born of rape at the Stand Speak Rise Up! conference organised at the initiative of Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess.
Princess Claire is an avid reader who enjoys autobiographies. She also practices yoga, pilates and plays badminton. She has been passionate about photography since her teenage years, with a particular emphasis on nature and she is interested in social and cultural issues.
Since August 2018, Princess Claire has lived in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with her husband and their three children.
