Alfred, 2nd Prince of Montenuovo was one of the highest court officials of Emperor Francis Joseph I of Austria. Among his ancestors were members of the Habsburg family and the de Medici Family.
Prince Alfred of Montenouvo was born in Vienna, Austrian Empire, the only son of William Albert, 1st Prince of Montenuovo , and his wife, Countess Juliana BatthynyStrattmann , . His paternal grandmother Marie Louise was the Empress consort of Napoleon I of France from 1810 to 1814 and Duchess of Parma from 1814, she married morganatically to his grandfather Adam Albert in 1821.
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