Prince Samuel of Sladonia

*For other people named 'Samuel of Sladonia' or 'Prince Samuel', see list of people named Samuel*

## Biographical Information

### Born

22 January 1995, Andre de Vissue Hospital, Roelle, Sladonia

## Familial Information

### Parents

* Léopold, Crown Prince of Sladonia
* Victoria, Crown Princess of Sladonia

### Family

House of Beauharnais (Leuchtenberg)

**Prince Alexandré Samuel of Sladonia** (Alexandré Samuel McCallister George-Francis {French: Alexandré Samuel McCallister Georges-François}; born 22 January 1995), is the second-in-line to the Sladonian crown. He is the eldest son of Léopold and Victoria of Sladonia, the husband of Julia Westcott and the father of Élisabeth, Alexandré, Louis and Joséphine of Sladonia.

## Early Life

### Birth and Infancy

Samuel was born at 12:35 AM on 22 January 1995 in Andre de Vissue Hospital, Roelle as the first child and heir of Léopold, Crown Prince of Sladonia and Victoria, Crown Princess of Sladonia, during the reign of his paternal grandfather, Alexandre III. He was baptised at six months old on 1 July 1995 by Harold Goodwin, the Bishop of Roelle. He was followed by two sisters; Victoria in 2001 and Marie-Mathilde in 2002.

He was alive at the same time as his paternal great-grandfather, Andrei Georgievich of Leuchtenberg, and his paternal great-grandmother, Maria Elisabeth of Bavaria. He was close to his paternal grandfather from an early age. He was raised bilingual in French and English, though usually uses English in public.

### Name

His name- Alexandré Samuel McCallister George-Francis- was announced on 23 January 1995. Though he does not use his first name Alexandré, he signs it on official documents. Alexandré was intended to honour his grandfather, of whom he was the first grandchild. Samuel was in reference to Samuel XIII, often called 'the Great', who was King of Sladonia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. McCallister is the maiden name of his mother's three-times-great-grandmother, Irene May Day, however it had been used by his maternal family numerous times since then- notably by his great-grandmother, Jeanette May Day McCallister Cavendish. George-Francis is the Anglicization of his maternal grandfather's name- Georg-Franz von Hohenzollern-Emden.

He uses the name 'Samuel' to further remove himself from his parents.

He uses "de Beauharnais von Leuchtenberg" as his surname, or simply "de Beauharnais". On his marriage certificate, it is "de Beauharnais of Sladonia and Leuchtenberg", but on all other notable documents, it remains "de Beauharnais von Leuchtenberg". The surname, which is French, traces its origin to Alexandre de Beauharnais, first husband of Joséphine de Beauharnais, who was in tern the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. The "von Leuchtenberg" addition was added when the family acquired the Dukedom of Leuchtenberg in the early nineteenth century.

### Education and Military Training

Samuel was first educated by a tutor at the family residence. He was fluent in Italian, Portuguese, German and Russian by the age of fourteen and had an aptitude for Mathematics, Physical Education and Art. One of his teachers was Henry Fitzhenry. From the age of fourteen (from 2009 until 2013), he attended the Royal College of Roelle, a private boarding school. There, he was captain of the soccer team in addition to playing cricket and rugby. While playing a game of rugby in 2010, he fractured his collarbone and underwent a minor operation, which he had fully recovered from in five months. He was an average student in most subjects.

In late 2013, he was enrolled in the University of Roelle, and intended to study for a Bachelor of Fine Arts, however he dropped out of the course in mid-2014, citing boredom as his motive.

He then took up a place in the Sladonian Army as an officer cadet. On January 1, 2015, he was given the rank of Second Lieutenant and six months leave. In June 2015, he returned to training for a further year, and achieved the title of Captain. After this, he was given an honourable discharge on September 1, 2016.

## Present

### Duties

#### Diplomacy and Travel

Since 2010, he has been on twenty-one official foreign visits, including the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympic Games, the Coronation of Charles III of the UK, the funerals of Constantine II of Greece, Elizabeth II of the UK, Pope Benedict XVI and Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. Most recently, he attended the funeral of Rosalynn Carter in the US.

Privately, he has travelled to over fifty countries, and has been to eleven US states. He frequently holidays in Croatia and Tanzania. He has met one hundred and ninety heads of state, including three popes, nine US presidents and ten US first ladies.

## Ancestry

Samuel is of European ancestry; with mainly Russian, English, French, German, Italian and Austrian heritage, but also is of distant Hungarian, Portuguese, Spanish and Irish descent. His parents, who were fourth-cousins-once-removed, both descend from King Francis II of the Two Sicilies, King Pedro IV of Portugal, King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II.