Ekaterina Malysheva

Ekaterina, Hereditary Princess of Hanover (née Malysheva; born 30 July 1986) is a Russian fashion designer and filmmaker. She is the hereditary princess of the House of Hanover through her marriage to Ernst August, Hereditary Prince of Hanover.

Biography

Ekaterina Malysheva was born in the Soviet Union in 1986 and grew up in Prague, Czech Republic. She graduated from the International School of Prague and moved to the United Kingdom when she was nineteen years old to study at the London College of Fashion. She designs a line of jumpsuits called EKATsuits. Prior to working in fashion, Malysheva was a documentary filmmaker.

In 2011 Malysheva met Ernst August, Hereditary Prince of Hanover at a party in London. They married in a civil ceremony on 6 July 2017 at the New Town Hall in Hanover. On 8 July 2017 they married in a Lutheran ceremony at the Market Church of Saints George and James. The groom's father, Ernst August, Prince of Hanover, did not attend the wedding.

It was announced that Malysheva was pregnant and expected to give birth to a baby girl in March 2018. She gave birth to their first child, Princess Elisabeth of Hanover, on 22 February 2018. In December 2018 Malysheva announced she was expecting another child to be born in April 2019. On 14 March 2019 she gave birth to their second child, Prince Welf August of Hanover.