Princess Marie of Montenuovo, married in 1909 to Count Franz Maria of Ledebur-Wicheln, had issue.
Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Montenuovo, married in 1927 to Baroness Ilona Solymossy of Loós and Egervár, had issue.
Princess Franziska of Montenuovo, married in 1918 to Prince Maria Leopold von Lobkowicz, had issue.
He inherited the title Prince of Montenuovo in 1895 following the death of his father. The prince died in 1927 in his palace at Löwelstrasse 6 in Vienna's city centre after suffering a heart attack. His body was interred at his family's crypt at Bóly in Hungary.
Career
After studying at the Catholic seminary in Salzburg, Alfred started a career as court official, in 1896/97 becoming Obersthofmeister of Archduke Otto of Austria, brother of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the latter of whom was from 1896 heir to the throne. In 1898 Emperor Franz Joseph made him Second Obersthofmeister of the imperial court, alongside Prince Rudolf of Liechtenstein. In 1900, Montenuovo was honoured by the Order of the Golden Fleece, the personal order of the dynasty. After Prince Rudolf's death, Montenuovo advanced to First Obersthofmeister in 1909. The Obersthofmeisteramt, as his office was called, among other duties was supervising the court theatres. Montenuovo supported the decision to make Gustav Mahler conductor and director of the I.R. Court Opera. Montenuovo was said to have been a lifelong enemy of Franz Ferdinand. Following the assassination of the latter and his morganatic wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, at Sarajevo in 1914, and with the emperor's connivance, he decided to turn the funeral into a massive and vicious snub. Even though most foreign royalty had planned to attend, they were pointedly disinvited and the funeral was attended by just the immediate imperial family, with the dead couple's three children excluded from the few public ceremonies. The officer corps was forbidden to salute the funeral train, and this led to a minor revolt led by Archduke Karl, the new heir to the throne. The public viewing of the coffins was curtailed severely and even more scandalously, Montenuovo tried unsuccessfully to make the children foot the bill. The Archduke and Duchess were interred at Artstetten Castle because the Duchess could not be buried at the Imperial Crypt. In 1917, the new emperor Charles I replaced Montenuovo with Prince Konrad von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst.
