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Princess Claire of Luxembourg

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Early life and academic career

Claire was born on 21 March 1985 in Filderstadt, West Germany (in present-day Germany). She is the second child of Gabriele Lademacher (née Schneider) and Hartmut Lademacher. Her father, founder of LHS Telekommunikation and owner of castles in Croatia and Saint-Tropez, began his career at IBM and amassed an estimated €600 million by investing in the software industry. Claire and her older brother, Felix, spent their childhood in Usingen. At the age of 11, Lademacher moved with her family to Atlanta, and was enrolled in Atlanta International School. The family returned to Germany in 1999 and from then on, Lademacher attended Frankfurt International School, before enrolling in Collège Alpin International Beau Soleil in Switzerland. She obtained the English A-Levels diploma with honours (Prize of Excellency). In 2003, she began studying international communication at the American University of Paris and graduated in 2007.

Having obtained her undergraduate degree, Lademacher worked in publishing for Condé Nast Publications in New York City and Munich. She also worked as a project manager for IMG World in Berlin. While an employee of Condé Nast Publications, she made the decision to pursue a career in academic bioethics. She proceeded to obtain a master's degree in bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, receiving it with the distinction summa cum laude. At the same time, she was working for the UNESCO Chair of Bioethics and Human Rights, concerning herself primarily with research, event coordination and communications. In 2012, Lademacher was in Rome, preparing a doctorate in the field of organ donation ethics at Regina Apostolorum. The subject of her dissertation is the bioethical evaluation of consent for organ donation. The dissertation focuses on the situations in Germany, Austria, and the United States. For several months in the fall of 2012, she was a visiting scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. In February 2018, Princess Claire became a visiting professor at the Faculty of Bioethics at the Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum University in Rome.

In addition to her native German, Lademacher speaks English, French, and Italian.

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