Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria
Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria was the son of the last crown prince of Bavaria, Rupprecht, and his first wife, Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria. He was the only child from that marriage that reached adulthood. His paternal grandfather was Ludwig III of Bavaria, the last king of Bavaria, who was deposed in 1918.
Albrecht in 1948
Albrecht with his younger half-brother, Prince Heinrich, in 1922.
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Duke of Bavaria, Franconia and in Swabia, Count Palatine by the Rhine, was the last heir apparent to the Bavarian throne. During the first half of World War I, he commanded the 6th Army on the Western Front. From August 1916, he commanded Army Group Rupprecht of Bavaria, which occupied the sector of the front opposite the British Expeditionary Force.
Rupprecht in uniform prior to World War I
Portrait of Rupprecht as a child by Franz von Lenbach c. 1874.
Prince Rupprecht and his second wife, Princess Antonia of Luxembourg
Rupprecht with six of his children.