Archduke Leopold Ferdinand, Prince of Tuscany

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Archduke Leopold Ferdinand Salvator, Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, Prince of Tuscany (2 December 1868-4 July 1935) was the eldest son of Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

He fell in love with a prostitute and suffered from alcoholism. His parents after he had been treated in the Rhineland offered him 100,000 florins if he left his mistress, under a legal contract. He was stripped of his titles on 29 December 1902 and took the name Leopold Wölfling (also spelled Wolflin). He was forbidden from entering Austrian lands and became a Swiss citizen but was given a gift of 200,000 florins as well as a further 30,000 florins as income from his parents.

He opened a delicatessen store in Vienna where, he sold salami and olive oil.

In his book My Life Story - From Archduke to Grocer he wrote about his time as a member of the House of Habsburg.

He married three times:

  • Wilhelmine Abramovic (1877-1908)
  • Maria Ritter (1877-1938)
  • Clara Groger (1910-1941)

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  • Franz Josef Jean-Paul Bled
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