Figure 1.--Here we see POrince Heinrich at about 5-6 years of age. He is dressed much as his half brothers except that he is wearing short pats abd socks rather than stockings. The post-card photo is not dated, but iuld have bveen taken about 1927.

Prince Heinrich of Bavaria (Heinrich Franz Wilhelm Prinz von Bayern) was born at Schloss Hohenburg in Bavaria (1922). He was the eldest son from the second marriage of Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria and his wife Princess Antonia of Luxembourg. He was naned after the highly decorated Prince Heinrich Luitpold of Bavaria (1884-1916) who was killed during World War II). We have no information about his childhood. All we know is that he grew up surrounded by his five younger sisters. As best we can tell it was a close-knit loving family. He was 9 years old when Hitler seized power. This mnean that he was about the age at which children joined the Hitler Youth. As his father was an anti-NAZI he would not have joined at first. when the NAZIs made membership mandatory (1936). When World War II broke out (1939), Prince Heinrich was nearing the age of military conspription. We have no details on this yet even if he was conscripted or not. The eldest son of the Hohenzollern Crown Prince (eldest son of Kaiser Wilhelm II) during the invasion of France (1940). Hitler was so apoaued over the outpouring of public sympathy that he issued regulations about the military service of the former German ruling families. This may have affected Heinrih. All we know for sure at this time is that he and his sisters managed to survive the War. The family's attitude toward the NAZIs would have been confirnmed with the German Western offensive that conquered France. It included Luxembourg, his mother's homeland. The NAZUSs subsequently annexed the Grand Duchy. We are looking for actual details on Heinrich';s war experiences, but not have found any yet. Prince Heinrich after the War married Anne Marie de Lustrac, the daughter of Baron Jean de Lustrac and his wife Helen Reid in Saint-Jean-de-Luz on the Basque coast in France (195). The couple did not have any children. The Prince became a Knight of the Order of Saint Hubert.The Prince was killed in a tragic car accident while driving his German sports car. The accident occurred at the Andean ski resort, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina (1958). His brother-in-law and sister, Prince and Princess Ludwig of Bavaria, who were with him"escaped with slight injuries. He was buried at the Andechs Abbey church in Bavaria. Prince Heinrich's wife, Anne Marie de Lustrac, also died in a car crash that occurred in Milan, Italy (1999).

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