Editing Carl Anton, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

{| class="wikitable" style="float:right" size="500px"
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! colspan="2" |HSH The Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
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| colspan="2" |[[File:Waldeck-Pyrmont_Carl_Anton.png|center|frameless]]
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|'''Titles'''
|Prince of [[Waldeck and Pyrmont]]
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|'''Reign'''
|16 December 2024 - present
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|'''Predecessor'''
|[[Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont|Wittekind]]
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! colspan="2" |Biographical Information
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|'''Born'''
|31 December 1991 (age 35)

Arolsen, Waldeck and Pyrmont, Germany
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|'''Name'''
|Carl Anton
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|'''House'''
|Waldeck
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|'''Father'''
|[[Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]
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|'''Mother'''
|[[Countess Cecilie of Goess-Sarau]]
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|'''Religion'''
|Evangelical Church of Germany
|}
'''Carl Anton, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont''' (born ''Carl Anton, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont'' on 31 December 1991) is the current reigning Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont.

==Life==
Carl Anton was born the eldest son of '''Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont''' and '''Countess Cecilie of Goess-Sarau'''.

In 2012, Carl Anton fractured a vertebra in a swimming accident at the age of twenty. He is permanently paralyzed from the waist down as a result of the accident. 

==Residences==
<gallery>
File:Residences Waldeck and Pyrmont Arolsen Castle.png|Arolsen Castle; Main Residence (September-May)
File:Residences Waldeck and Pyrmont Schaumburg Castle.png|Schaumburg Castle; Summer Residence (June-August)
</gallery>

==Titles and Honours==

* '''1991-2024'''   Carl Anton, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
* '''2024-present'''   Carl Anton, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont 

===National Honours===
[[File:Honours_Waldeck_and_Pyrmont_Order_of_Merit.png|frameless|75x75px]] Order of Merit (2009)

===Foreign Honours===
[[File:Honours_Prussia_Order_of_the_Black_Eagle.png|frameless|75x75px]] Order of the Black Eagle (2025) (Germany)

==Ancestry==
{| class="wikitable"
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!Parents
!Grandparents
!Great-Grandparents
!Great-Great-Grandparents
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|[[Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]
|[[Josias, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]
[[Princess Altburg of Oldenburg]]
|[[Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]
[[Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe (b. 1873)|Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe]]

[[Grand Duke Frederick Augustus II of Oldenburg]]

[[Princess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin]]
|[[George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]
[[Princess Helena of Nassau]]

[[Prince Wilhelm of Schaumburg-Lippe]]

[[Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau]]

[[Grand Duke Peter II of Oldenburg]]

[[Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg]]

[[Grand Duke Frederick Francis II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin]]

[[Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt]]
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|[[Countess Cecilie of Goess-Sarau]]
|[[Johann Baptist, Count of Goess-Sarau]]
[[Maria Mathilde von Melnhof]]
|[[Johann Zeno, Count of Goess]]
[[Countess Emma of Welsersheimb]]

[[Baron Franz Melnhof]]

[[Princess Marie of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst]]
|[[Leopold, Count of Goess]]
[[Countess Marianne of Valassina-Como-Vercelli]]

[[Zeno, Count of Welsersheimb]]

[[Caroline von Hirzenau]]

[[Baron Franz Melnhof]]

[[Mathilde von Tinti]] [[Prince Konrad of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst]]

[[Countess Franziska of Schonborn-Buchheim]]
|}

==Lines of Succession==
{| class="wikitable wiki-table"
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! colspan="3" |Carl Anton, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
House of Waldeck 

Born: 31 December 1991 
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| colspan="3" |<center>'''Lines of Succession'''</center>
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|<center>Preceded by</center>
|<center>Succession to the [[Waldeck and Pyrmont]] throne</center>
|<center>Followed by</center>
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|<center><small>Incumbent</small>
'''<small>preceded by</small>'''
[[Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont|'''<small>Wittekind</small>''']]</center>
|<center>Incumbent</center>
|<center>[[Prince Josias of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]</center>
|}
== Notes ==
Face: Joe Alwyn
[[Category:Waldeck and Pyrmont]]
[[Category:House Waldeck]]
[[Category:Monarchs of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]