The Royal House of Saxony is about to become extinct in the male line. Keeping this in mind, Margrave Maria Emanuel of Saxony had hoped that his sister Mathilde's son, Prince Johannes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, would become the next heir. Unfortunately Johannes died in a harrowing climbing accident in the Alps and that put a tragic end to this solution.
Then the Margrave consulted with his family and decided that the new heir would be his other nephew Alexander Afif-Gessaphe, raised in Mexico, and the eldest son of Princess Maria Anna of Saxony by her late husband Roberto Afif. The Afifi family claim membership in a Middle eastern "royal" clan as Princes of Gessaphe.
Anyhow, Alexander was elevated to the title of Prince by his uncle the Margrave and made everyone extremely happy by finding himself a royal bride, Princess Gisela of Bavaria. she happens to be the youngets daughter of Prince Rasso of Bavaria and Archduchess Theresia of Austria-Tuscany, a great-granddaughter of Emperor Franz Joseph. Prince Rasso himself is a grandson of King Ludwig III of Bavaria' the country's last monarch.
Prince Alexander and Princess Gisela are the parents of four children. The couple have lived in Dresden since the last 6 years and he works for the Saxon government's office of international investment. It is his duty to attract foreign business to Saxony, a position he has fulfilled with great distinction.
Initialy all male and female members of the Saxon family (the Margrave, Prince Albert, Princess Maria Anna, Princess Maria Josepha, princess Mathilde and their cousins Princes Dedo and Gero) signed a document in which all agreed that Alexander would be the family's "dynastic" heir. However, since then there have been problems and Albert, Gero and Dedo, decided to throw their support behind Herr Rüdiger Prinz von Sachsen, the morganatic son of the late Prince Timo of Saxony, the much-married brother of Dedo and Gero. Rüdiger has had a checkered career to say the least, with prison stints, fraud, lawsuits and even the suicide of his poor suffering wife.
The Margrave has never wavered in his support of Alexander's cause however and to royal Europe, Alexander is the accepted heir.
Arturo Beéche