| Heinrich Ruzzo, Prince Reuss, Count of Plauen | |
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| Spouse | Mette Rinde (1974–1986) Frida Lyngstad (1992–1999) |
| House | House of Reuss |
| Born | 24 May 1950 Lucerne |
| Died | 29 October 1999 Stockholm |
| Styles of Heinrich Ruzzo, Prince Reuss, Count of Plauen |
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| Reference style | His Serene Highness |
| Spoken style | Your Serene Highness |
| Alternative style | Sir |
Prince Heinrich Ruzzo Reuss, Count of Plauen (German: Heinrich Ruzzo Prinz Reuss, Graf von Plauen) (born 24 May 1950 in Lucerne, died 29 October 1999 in Stockholm), known as Prince Ruzzo Reuss for short, was a Swedish-Swiss landscape architect and a prince of the former sovereign House of Reuss, that ruled the principalities of Reuss in modern Germany for almost thousand years. His family branch was the royal family of the Principality of Reuss Younger Line until 1918. He was married to pop singer Frida Lyngstad, who became Princess Frida Reuss following the marriage.
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Prince Ruzzo was the son of Prince Heinrich Enzio Reuss of Plauen (1922–2000) and a Swedish mother, Baroness Louise Peyron (1918–1989). His father was a member of the German princely House of Reuss. His mother's family, Peyron, immigrated to Sweden from France in 1740, was ennobled in Sweden in 1825, conferred baronial status in 1841 and introduced at the Swedish House of Nobility the following year. Louise Peyron was an artist.
The House of Reuss named all of their male children Heinrich (English: Henry) after the end of the 12th century in honour of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1190–97), to whom they owed the estates of Weida and Gera. The prince was known by the Italian given name of Ruzzo. He grew up with his grandfather in Rome after his parents divorced, but spent the summers with his mother in Scania. In 1972, his mother remarried nobleman Theodor Stig Jakob Christoffer "Ted" Ankarcrona (1918–1984), owner of the estate Boserup in Scania and Runsa Castle in Uppland.
He was educated in Sweden, where he was a schoolfriend of King Carl Gustaf of Sweden, having attended the same boarding school. Prince Ruzzo and the then-Crown Prince of Sweden enjoyed hunting together.
Later in life, he relocated to Switzerland, where he lived on his family castle in Fribourg. In 1989, his mother died and he inherited her farm in Glumslöv outside Landskrona. He was interested in golf and constructed two golf courses on his properties in Switzerland and Lundsberg, Sweden.
Prince Ruzzo was married to Mette Rinde, a native of Norway, from 1974 to 1986, and they had two twin daughters. From 1986 he lived with Frida Lyngstad in Switzerland, and they married on 26 August 1992. He died from lymphoma in 1999.[1]
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