Prince Heinrich Ruzzo Reuss of Plauen

Heinrich Ruzzo Prinz Reuss von Plauen (; 24 May 1950 – 29 October 1999) was a Swiss-born Swedish landscape architect and a member of the formerly sovereign House of Reuss. His branch ruled the Principality of Reuss-Gera until 1918. Until his death, he was married to ABBA singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad, his second wife. Biography Born on 24 May 1950 in Lucerne, Heinrich Ruzzo was the son of Prince Heinrich Enzio Reuss-Plauen (1922–2000) and a Swedish mother, Baroness Louise Peyron (1918–1989), daughter of Baron Gustaf Peyron and Emma Kockum. The Peyrons had immigrated to Sweden from France in 1740, been ennobled in Sweden in 1825, granted a barony in 1841 and were received into the Swedish House of Nobility the following year. Louise Peyron was an artist. His father, Heinrich Enzio, was the son of Count Heinrich Harry of Plauen (1890-1951), who was himself the son of Prince Heinrich XXVI Reuss (1857–1913). Although only a younger son of a minor royal family, when Heinrich XXVI married Countess Viktoria von Fürstenstein (1863–1949) in 1885, under the strict marriage rules then enforced by the Reuss dynasty their children were not allowed to bear the princely title, being designated "Counts of Plauen" instead, while still in the line of succession to the throne of Reuss (The Fürstensteins lacked Uradel status: Viktoria's paternal grandfather, Pierre-Alexandre Le Camus 1774–1824, son of a French laborer residing in Martinique, became foreign minister in Jerome Bonaparte's Kingdom of Westphalia, was ennobled there in 1807 and made a count of the French Empire in 1817). When the German Empire collapsed at the end of World War I, the reigning Prince Reuss lost his crown along with all the other monarchs whose realms were within Germany. In 1927, Heinrich XXVI's childless brother, Prince Heinrich XXX (1864–1939), adopted his nephew and the now-deposed dynasty agreed to accept him as "Prince Heinrich Harry Reuß", along with those of his male-line descendants born of unions complying with the family's 1902 rules that permitted marriages to countesses (Heinrich Harry's wife, Huberta von Tiele-Winckler was only a baroness in her own right, but belonged to a family of comital rank in Prussia).