Prince Wolfgang Moritz of Finland

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Prince Wolfgang Moritz of Finland (6 November 1896, Castle Rumpenheim, Offenbach, Germany), is the designated Hereditary Prince of the monarchy of Finland, and as such, already called the Crown Prince of Finland officially.

Wolfgang is the second-born of a pair of twins, the fourth child and son born to Fredrik Kaarle I, King of Finland (1868) and Princess Margaret of Prussia (1872). His maternal uncle is the German Emperor Wilhelm II. Wolfgang's father Fredrik Kaarle was elected King of Finland on 9 October 1918, to replace his first cousin once removed, the deposed Russian emperor, Nicholas II, who was titled Grand Duke of Finland.

Wolfgang is legally his father's heir as King of Finland instead of his elder twin Prince Philip of Hesse (1896), apparently because Wolfgang was with his parents in 1918 and ready to travel to Finland . Philip was in the military and incommunicado at the time.

Wolfgang married on September 17, 1924 Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden (1902), daughter of Prince Maximilian of Baden and Princess Marie Louise of Hanover; they have no children.

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