Prince Jean of Luxembourg
Bourbon-Parma (agnatic)FatherJean, Grand Duke of LuxembourgMotherJoséphine-Charlotte of BelgiumReligionRoman Catholicism
Prince Jean of Luxembourg (given names: Jean Félix Marie Guillaume; born 15 May 1957 at Betzdorf Castle), the second son of Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium. He is the twin brother of Princess Margaretha. He frequently goes by the name of Jean N*au.
On 26 September 1986, Prince Jean renounced his right of succession to the Luxembourg throne.
Contents
- 1 Education and youth
- 2 Career
- 3 Marriage and family
- 4 Honours and awards
- 4.1 National honours
- 4.2 Foreign honours
- 5 References
- 6 External links
Education and youth
Prince Jean's godparents were Prince Felix of Luxembourg and Princess Margrethe of Denmark.
Prince Jean was educated in Luxembourg, Switzerland and France, where he obtained his baccalaureate. He then undertook a language course at the Bell School of Languages in Cambridge England.
In 1977, Prince Jean began his military officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, England and member of the Champion Platoon, having been commissioned in August 1978. He was made a captain of the Luxembourg Army in 1979. After completing his university education in Geneva, he went to New York and joined W.R. Grace as a financial *yst working in the Finance, Planning & *ysis Division of the Group that reported to the President & CEO of the company - at the time, Mr J. Peter Grace. Back in Europe in 1985, in 1986 he obtained an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.
Career
Prince Jean works in the water industry as an advisor to the GDF-Suez Group, Executive VP of the Suez Fondation and a Member of the Executive Board of Degrémont, a subsidiary of Suez Environnement. Prince Jean has been President of the Chambre de Commerce belgo-luxembourgeoise en France. In 2006 he bought the Southern African Water subsidiary of Suez Environnement, WSSA (Water & Sanitation South Africa) and created Mea Aqua, with the objective of developing water and energy solutions in the Middle East and in Africa. Mea Aqua and its subsidiaries employ today over 2,500 employees.
Prince Jean is a member of the board of the MIP, a business school based in Paris and a board member of a number of financial ins*utions: Banque Degroof Luxembourg, EFG Bank and EFG International, Ecofin (hedge funds in the utilities sector).
Marriage and family
On 27 May 1987, Prince Jean married morganatically in Paris, France, Hélène Suzanna Vestur (born 31 May 1958 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye), now a high civil servant, Conseiller d'Etat and judge, daughter of François Philippe Vestur (born 1927) and Cécile Ernestine Buisson (born 1928). His wife and children bore the *le "Count(ess) of N*au" from 21 September 1995. On 27 November 2004 Grand-Duc Henri issued an Arrêté Grand-Ducal upgrading the *les of Prince Jean's children to Prince/Princesse de N*au with the qualification of Altesse Royale, without succession rights. The prince and former countess divorced in 2004, having four children together: Princess Marie-Gabrielle, Prince Constantin, Prince Wenceslas, and Prince Carl-Johan.
On 18 March 2009, Prince Jean married Diane de Guerre (born 13 July 1962 in Düsseldorf) in a civil ceremony in Roermond. She is a daughter of Belgian aristocrat General Claude Gaston de Guerre (1910–1997) and German Countess Eugenie Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht (1923–2016), and based on the grand ducal house law was granted the *le of "Comtesse de N*au" (Countess Diane of N*au).
Honours and awards
See also: List of honours of the Luxembourgish Grand-Ducal Family by countryNational honours
- :Luxembourg: Knight of the Order of the Gold Lion of the House of N*au
- :Luxembourg: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Adolphe of N*au
Foreign honours
- :Spain:: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (8 July 1980)
References
External links
Media related to Prince Jean of Luxembourg (1957) at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Official website of the Grand Ducal family