Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the last reigning prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen before the territory was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1849. Afterwards, he continued to
Karl Anton in 1858
Portrait of Karl Anton by Richard Lauchert, 1852
Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (later Emperor Wilhelm I) in about 1840. He appointed Karl Anton Minister President in 1858.
Sigmaringen Castle on the Danube River, the ancestral home of the princes of Sigmaringen-Hohenzollern
Carol I of Romania
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Carol I or Charles I of Romania, nicknamed the King of Independence; was the monarch of Romania from 1866 to his death in 1914, ruling as Prince from 1866 to 1881, and as King from 1881 to 1914. He wa
Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern (born 1811)
…House of Hohenzollern. He served as Minister President of Prussia from 1858 to 1862, the only Hohenzollern prince to hold that post. His second son, Karl, became king of Romania. The offer of the throne of Spain to his eldest son, Leopold, was one of the causes of the Franco-Prussian War, which led to…
Carol I, c. 1905–14
Prince Karl of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen, aged 6
Prince Karl of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen c. 1860.
Prince Charles's predecessor as Domnitor of the United Principalities, Alexandru Ioan Cuza.