called him to Nymphenburg Palace to be trained in the former Royal Family's estate management. He also became chairman of Hilfsverein Nymphenburg, a charitable organization founded in 1964 by the royal family and the Bavarian Red Cross, with activities in development aid. He then founded Learning Lions, a schooling project in Kenya, where he spent most of the year. In August 2022, his engagement to Sophie-Alexandra Evekink, a dual Dutch/Canadian citizen and doctoral student at the Law Faculty of the University of Oxford, was announced. Prince Heinrich Rudolf of Bavaria (born 23 January 1986 in Landsberg am Lech), married on 22 April 2017 at Andechs Abbey, Henriette Gruse (born 26 December 1982), daughter of Bernd Gruse and Friederike Gruse Prince Maximilian of Bavaria (born 2021) Prince Karl Rupprecht of Bavaria (born 10 March 1987) Because the current head and the heir-presumptive of the Royal House of Bavaria, Duke Franz and his younger brother Max, have no male offspring, their first cousin (and second cousin in the male line) Luitpold and his son Prince Ludwig are next in line to inherit representation of the House of Bavaria's historically royal legacy. Business activities Prince Luitpold is the proprietor and CEO of a brewery located at Kaltenberg Castle (König Ludwig GmbH & Co. KG Schlossbrauerei Kaltenberg) which was founded in 1871, and largely extended by the prince who also purchased Marthabräu brewery at Fürstenfeldbruck in 1980, where his wheat beer is produced. At Kaltenberg he also organizes an annual jousting tournament. In 2011 he purchased the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory, founded in 1745 by Maximilian III Joseph, Prince-Elector of Bavaria. Prince Luitpold owns the Bavarian castles of Leutstetten and Kaltenberg, in which he lives with his family. Ancestry References Die Wittelsbacher. Geschichte unserer Familie. Adalbert, Prinz von Bayern. Prestel Verlag, München, 1979 House of Wittelsbach 1951 births Living people People from Starnberg Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany