Prince Charles-Antoine de Ligne de La Trémoïlle

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 the California high-speed train from San Francisco to San Diego.

Background Charles-Antoine was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in 1946. He studied law at the Institut Catholique de Paris and hotel administration and management at Cornell University.

He is third cousin once removed of Michel, head of the House of Ligne through their shared descent from 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. HH Prince Charles Joseph Malcolm de Ligne (b. Paris, 1980) who married Ran Li on 20 November 2010 (one son, Prince Amadeo).