part of the French crown jewels and is now in the Louvre in Paris. They were married by the archbishop of Esztergom–Budapest, the Roman Catholic primate of Hungary, Cardinal János Simor in the chapel of Buda Castle. His marriage to Archduchess Margarethe lasted over 60 years, producing seven sons and a daughter. Two world wars, and thereafter In the years before the outbreak of the First World War, the finances of royal household of Thurn and Taxis were exceptional, with the highest income Prince Albert would ever see. His events and numerous trips with his extended family were at this time more lavish than ever. In 1914, the yearbook of millionaires in Württemberg and Hohenzollern listed him as the richest man in Württemberg, with assets of 270 million Deutschmarks. By comparison, the king of Württemberg, Wilhelm II, had in the same year assets of only 36 million Marks. During the First World War, the civilian Prince Albert acted as a delegate and inspector for the Red Cross and medical services. On his journey to the front he retained his luxury and entourage, but he also supported the soldiers of his cavalry regiment, and he had the medical hospital of Ostheim built in the grounds of the sugar factory at Regensburg, where his wife Margarethe worked as a nurse. After the war, during the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the time of the Bavarian Soviet Republic there was unrest in Regensburg too, and rumours of a planned attack on the Prince's palace at Saint Emmeram. Nevertheless, the prince was given assurances by the mayor and the military administration, and in return he gave financial support to the construction of residential flats. When the situation reached its climax in 1919, the castle was barricaded and protected by soldiers from the Taxis regiment, armed with machine-guns. Finally, after the assassination of Kurt Eisner (who had organised the Socialist Revolution in Bavaria) in Munich in 1919, the rumoured attack on St. Emmeram came to nothing. To relieve the sufferings of the people in the winter months after the end of the war, Prince Albert founded in 1919 the princely emergency kitchen. This became a regular establishment from 1923, and remains to this day. In 1957, 70 students were fed by the kitchen, which today offers 400 meals to the needy, daily from Mondays to Fridays. After the second world war, prince Albert opened all