Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen

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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Emich, Prince of Leiningen (12 September 1804–13 November 1856) was a German nobleman and the elder half-brother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

He was the only son of Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen and his second wife Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (an elder son by Emich Carl's first wife had died in 1800). Emich Carl died on the 4 July 1814 and Carl succeeded him as third Prince of Leiningen. In 1818 his mother was remarried to Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III of the United Kingdom, and in 1819 Carl and his sister Feodora were taken to Britain, where his half-sister Princess Victoria of Kent was born on 24 May. Carl later pursued a career in the Bavarian army.

On 13 February 1829, he was married to Countess Maria Klebelsberg (27 March 1806–28 October 1880, daughter of Count Maximilian Klebelsberg and his wife Maria Anna von Turba. They had two sons:

Ernst Leopold Victor Carl August Joseph Emich, born on the 9 November 1830, who succeeded as fourth prince, and
Eduard Friedrich Maximilian Johann, born on the 5 January 1833 and died 9 April 1914.

The Prince of Leiningen, was made a Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1837. In 1855, shortly after his niece Victoria, Princess Royal became engaged to Prince Frederick William of Prussia, he suffered from a severe apoplectic attack. A second attack in November the following year proved fatal, and he died at Amorbach at the age of fifty-two, with his sister the Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg at his bedside.