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{{Short description|Belgian French businessman}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
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| name           = Charles-Antoine
| title          = [[Ligne family|Prince de Ligne de La Trémoïlle]]
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| occupation     = Businessman
| spouse         = {{ubl
| {{marriage|Lady Moira Beatrice Forbes|7 October 1971|1975|end=div}}
| {{marriage|Princess Alyette Isabelle Odile Marie de Croÿ|23 January 1976}}
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| issue          = {{ubl| Prince Edouard Lamoral de Ligne de la Trémoïlle | Prince Charles Joseph de Ligne de la Trémoïlle }}
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| noble family   = [[House of Ligne|Ligne]] ([[agnatic]])<br/>[[La Trémoille family|La Trémoïlle]] ([[cognatic]])
| father         = [[Jean Charles, Prince de Ligne de La Trémoille]]
| mother         = Maria del Rosario de Lambertye-Gerbéviller
| birth_date     = {{birth date and age|df=y|1946|9|30}}
| birth_place    = [[Boulogne-sur-Mer]], France
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'''Prince Charles-Antoine Marie Louis Eugène Lamoral de Ligne-La Trémoïlle''' (born 30 September 1946) is a [[Belgian French]] businessman, member of a family of the [[Belgian nobility]], the [[House of Ligne]].
He co-founded a company, with Christopher Harriman, LAREX Corporation, that promoted high-speed elevated transit and urban development, with environmental enhancement along the 35 miles of riverfront of the [[Los Angeles River]] corridor, including a possible [[High-speed rail|high-speed train]] from San Francisco to San Diego.<ref>{{cite news |last=Gladstone |first=Mark |last2=Colvin |first2=Richard Lee |title=Wilson Vetoes L.A. River Parkway Bill Legislation|work=Los Angeles Times | date =29 September 1992 }}</ref>
==Background==
Charles-Antoine was born in [[Boulogne-sur-Mer]], France, in 1946.<ref name=latimes>{{cite news |last=Gladstone |first=Mark |title=Obscure Prince Lobbies for Quixotic State Rail Plan|work=Los Angeles Times | date =28 June 1993 }}</ref> He studied law at the [[Institut Catholique de Paris]] and hotel administration and management at [[Cornell University]].<ref name=latimes/> He is the son of the late [[Prince Jean Charles of Ligne-La Trémoïlle|Jean Charles, Prince de Ligne de La Trémoïlle]] and Maria del Rosario de [[:File:Blason_de_la_famille_de_Lambertye.svg|Lambertye-Gerbéviller]] (1922-2023).<ref name="GHdA">{{cite book | title=Genealogishes Handbuch des Adels: Furstliche Hauser Band XIV | publisher=C.A. Starke Verlag | year=1991 | location=Limburg an der Lahn, Germany | pages=495, 498–499 | isbn=3-7980-0700-4}}</ref>
He is [[cousin|third cousin once removed]] of [[Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne|Michel]], head of the [[House of Ligne]] through their shared descent from [[Eugène, 8th Prince of Ligne|Eugène]], 8th [[Prince of Ligne]]. Like all members of the Ligne family, he holds the title of ''prince'' in the [[Belgian nobility]] and the style of ''[[Highness]]''.<ref name="GHdA"/>
His branch of the Ligne family are heirs in the female line of the House of [[La Trémoïlle]], which held the rare rank of ''[[Foreign Prince|prince étranger]]'' during France's ''[[ancien régime]]'', as [[pretender]]s to the [[Kingdom of Naples|crown of Naples]].
==Marriage and children==
He married, firstly, Lady Moira Beatrice Forbes, daughter of [[Arthur Forbes, 9th Earl of Granard]] and Marie Madeleine de Faucigny-Lucinge, on 7 October 1971 and were divorced in 1975.<ref name="GHdA"/>
He married, secondly, Princess Alyette Isabelle Odile Marie de Croÿ, daughter of Prince Rodolphe de [[House of Croÿ|Croÿ]], and Odile de Bailleul, on 23 January 1976. They had two sons:<ref name="GHdA"/>
* HH Prince Edouard Lamoral Rodolphe de Ligne (b.1976) who married Italian actress [[Isabella Orsini]] (two daughters and one son, Prince Antoine).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cope |first1=Rebecca |title=Who is Isabella Orsini de Ligne? |url=https://www.tatler.com/article/isabella-orsini-de-ligne-summer-holidays |website=Tatler |access-date=5 October 2022}}</ref>
* HH Prince Charles Joseph Malcolm de Ligne (b. Paris, 1980) who married Ran Li<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.lavenir.net/article/detail.aspx?articleid=39178480 |title=Antoing: un second mariage princier}}</ref> on 20 November 2010 (one son, Prince Amadeo).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.lavenir.net/article/detail.aspx?articleid=39198586 |title=Soirée "Sissi"}}</ref>
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[[Category:1946 births]]
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[[Category:People from Boulogne-sur-Mer]]
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[[Category:House of La Trémoille]]
[[Category:People of Byzantine descent]]