Marriages and Children
He married Princess Margarita of Hohenlohe-Oehringen on June 8, 1984. He had one daughter by this marriage, Princess Cécilia of Leiningen (b. 1988). Princess Margarita died in 1989 in a car accident.
On May 24, 1991, Prince Karl Emich married Dr. Gabriele Renate Thyssen. After an inheritance dispute, he abdicated and gave way to his younger brother Prince Andreas of Leiningen. He is excluded from the line of succession to the British throne, because his then wife was a Roman Catholic at that time. They had one daughter, Theresa Anna Elisabeth Prinzessin von Leiningen (b. 1992) In 1998, Karl Emich and Gabriele were divorced.
He married Countess Isabelle of Egloffstein in a civil ceremony on 8 September 2007 in Amorbach, and in a religious ceremony on 7 June 2008 in Pappenheim. In 2010, they had a son, Prince Emich of Leiningen.
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