At one in the afternoon this Saturday, the long-awaited wedding of Princess Victoria Elisabeth of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, head of the Medinaceli House, with Maxime Corneille, a young Franco-Argentine economist. The Salto al Cielo estate will host the lunch and party after the wedding of this discreet aristocrat, who is the noblewoman who has accumulated the most recognized nobility distinctions in Spain, a total of 43.
Victoria, 26 years old, is a princess of a defunct German state inherited from her paternal grandfather and heir to the dukedom of Medinaceli through her paternal grandmother. The latter was the eldest daughter of Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba, who was called Mimí in the family, and whose heirs continue to fight a decade after her death in lawsuits, previously over the titles and now over the legitimate portion of assets.
Very discreet, Victoria has always maintained a low profile and the few images we have of her are from the weddings of friends and relatives or from her attendance at equestrian events, an activity of which she is a fan. She was born in Marbella but grew up in Munich, the city where her mother, Sandra Schmidt-Polex, moved after the divorce of Marco Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Medina, the bride’s father, who died in Seville in 2016 after a long disease.
The Duchess of Medinaceli now resides in Madrid where she also studied International Relations at the Business Institute. She currently works in the ESG and Sustainability department of MJ Hudson, an American consulting firm with an office in the city. Her only brother, Alexander, Duke of Ciudad Real, who is expected to take her to the altar, has also lived in Spain for some years.
Members of the House of Alba will attend the event, such as the Dukes of Huéscar and the Counts of Osorno. Victoria de Hohenlohe is now the Spanish noblewoman with the most noble distinctions after the distribution of titles among the children of Cayetana de Alba, who was the aristocrat who accumulated the most noble titles in life, a total of 50. Other well-known faces at the celebration will be the Victoria’s cousins, Rafael Medina and Luis de Medina, Duke of Feria and Marquis of Villalba, respectively, and children of Naty Abascal.
Rafael and Luis, the most prominent in the media, are, like the bride, her brother and two other cousins ??- Victoria Medina Conradi, Duchess of Santisteban, and Casilda Medina Conradi, Marchioness of Solera – in a lawsuit for inheritance against Ignacio Medina and Fernández de Córdoba, Duke of Segobre, the only living son of Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba at the time of her death and life president of the Casa Ducal de Medinaceli Foundation. As a consequence of this family schism, this Saturday’s wedding will not be celebrated at Casa de Pilatos, the Sevillian palace home for generations of the Duke of Medinaceli.
In the last chapter of this dispute, the chief judge of the Court of First Instance number 12 of Seville partially upheld the claim of the four grandchildren (Rafael, Luis, Victoria and Casilda) and the two great-grandchildren (Victoria and Alexander) of Victoria Eugenia against the Casa Ducal Medinaceli Foundation. The ruling stated that the plaintiff grandchildren have the right to receive a share of 12.5% ??of the legitimate share of one third of the estate and 4.17% in the case of great-grandchildren. Although this sentence is not final and is currently being appealed to the Provincial Court of Seville.
