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Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe: Julianne Michelle Hosts Mommy’s Heart Charity Shopping Event with Prince Mario-Max and VIP Guests

On Manhattan’s Upper East Side, an address disclosed only upon RSVP, Mother’s Day arrived early — and with a purpose. Actress Julianne Michelle hosted an elegant charity shopping afternoon for Mommy’s Heart, the nonprofit supporting abused parents and children, joined by a host committee that included H.H. Dr. Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe, Leslie Barrett, Bumi Sirotka, Joseph Fichera, and Nadira Saban.

Guests arrived between four and eight in the evening to soft florals and a calm, curated room. The featured collection came from T.TANDON, whose modern designs gave the afternoon its fashion center of gravity — and every ticket included a shopping voucher, so browsing naturally became buying.

Twenty percent with every purchase

The philanthropic engine was simple and direct: twenty percent of all sales went to Mommy’s Heart. Each purchase doubled as a contribution, a model that treats luxury and compassion as partners rather than opposites.

The supporting cast of brands reinforced the tone. L’Occitane en Provence and Lush brought beauty and wellness; Eros Flowers NYC shaped the room’s floral identity; WinesToGo NYC Wine and Spirits, McCabes Wine and Spirits, and Serafina kept glasses filled; Sojourn Social added a community-driven current to the guest list.

A voice for children

Prince Mario-Max used the occasion to press a point close to him: children need stronger advocates and louder voices. His remarks landed squarely on the organization’s mission — events like this one, he suggested, are platforms for awareness as much as fundraising.

Timed just ahead of Mother’s Day, the afternoon invited guests to hold two ideas at once: celebration of motherhood, and responsibility toward mothers and children facing hardship. By every account in the room, it succeeded — style, community, and advocacy moving in step from the first arrival to the last goodbye.

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Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe: Georgina Bloomberg Shines at NYC Second Chance Rescue Gala Supporting Animal Rescue

Georgina Bloomberg — athlete, world-class equestrian, devoted animal advocate, mother of three — brought her trademark warmth to Pier 61 on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, for the NYC Second Chance Rescue Gala at The Lighthouse NYC, 61 Chelsea Piers. And the room noticed.

Graceful and genuinely hands-on, Bloomberg lent the sold-out evening both star power and substance. The cause — giving rescued dogs and cats a second chance — is one she carries personally, and her presence set the tone for a night built on compassion.

A packed house for the animals

The gala drew celebrated faces from entertainment and philanthropy, but the evening’s true stars had four legs. Adorable rescue dogs charmed the crowd, posing patiently amid the flashbulbs while dressed-up owners looked on. Maria and Kenneth Fishel were among the many guests smitten with the furry headliners.

The program honored Ralph Macchio, Rob Thomas and Marisol Thomas — founders of the Sidewalk Angels Foundation — and Dr. Tom Walker. Special guests included Elaine Hendrix, with Anthony Rodia hosting, a special performance by John Lloyd Young, and music from DJ Geo Roc. PR powerhouse Norah Lawlor drove the evening’s communications.

Why it matters

Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe, also in attendance, spoke to the deeper lesson behind the glamour. Raised around animals — his father H.H. Prince Waldemar always kept a dog, and his mother H.H. Dr. Princess Antonia, a rider and veterinarian who studied law to embed animal protection in European legislation — he put it plainly: animals cannot represent themselves, so it is our duty to protect them.

Every donation, large or small, goes directly to the rescue mission at nycsecondchancerescue.org. On this night, at 6 p.m. in cocktail attire on the Chelsea waterfront, New York’s animal lovers proved the point in person.

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Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe: New York Philharmonic Spring Gala Honors Barbara Tober with Dudamel, Kissin, and a Dazzling Crowd

The program alone was a work of art — luminous pinks and warm golds announcing the New York Philharmonic Spring Gala, with two names at its center: Gustavo Dudamel and Evgeny Kissin. On Tuesday, April 28, 2026, David Geffen Hall filled with the patrons, musicians, and cultural leaders who keep one of the world’s great orchestras thriving.

The evening honored Barbara Tober and the memory of her husband Donald Tober, with Elizabeth Segerstrom serving as Honorary Chair. Among the distinguished guests was H.H. Dr. Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe, there at the invitation connected to Elizabeth Bacot and the Christoph Aigner family, paying his respects to Tober and Segerstrom alike.

Music at the center

Dudamel, the Philharmonic’s Music Director Designate, led with characteristic clarity, joined by pianist Evgeny Kissin. The repertoire moved from intensity to grandeur: Mussorgsky’s Prelude and Dance of the Persian Slaves from Khovanshchina, Scriabin’s Piano Concerto, and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite — a progression that showed off the orchestra’s full range, with Kissin’s performance a focal point of technical brilliance.

The evening’s co-chairs reflected the breadth of the Philharmonic’s support: Marisa Chearavanont, LaVon Kellner, Judy Glickman Lauder, Leni and Peter May, James L. and Margo M. Nederlander, Daisy M. Soros, and Oscar L. Tang with H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang.

Honoring Barbara Tober

Tober’s story ran through the program pages: lifelong New Yorker, arts patron, publishing figure, former chairman of the Board at the Museum of Arts and Design, supporter of artists through the Acronym Fund and CODAworx, and a 2019 Living Landmark of the New York Landmarks Conservancy. Donald Tober, who passed in 2021, was remembered as her partner in a shared life of philanthropy.

Matías Tarnopolsky, the Philharmonic’s President and CEO, welcomed guests with a message framing the gala as both celebration and continuation — a nod to the orchestra’s momentum under Dudamel’s incoming leadership.

Dinner, calendar, continuity

After cocktails from 5:30 to 6:30 and the 7 p.m. concert came dinner: roasted young beets with goat cheese mousse, signature pull-apart rolls, parmesan chicken with braised leeks and Thai chili beurre fondue, and gianduja chocolate with hazelnut ganache — paired with Honig Sauvignon Blanc and Roco Gravel Road Pinot Noir.

The program also looked ahead: September 10, 2026 brings Dudamel and the Philharmonic to Radio City Music Hall; September 30 marks his Inaugural Gala honoring Peter W. May and Oscar L. Tang; February 9, 2027 is the Lunar New Year Gala; and the Spring Gala tradition continues May 26, 2027.

For Prince Mario-Max, the night was a reminder of what institutions like the Philharmonic do best: gather a city around excellence, and make continuity feel like celebration.

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Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe: Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe Honored with New York State Assembly Citation by Charles D. Lavine

The parchment carries its own quiet authority. Dated April 21, 2026, a New York State Assembly citation presented by Assembly Member Charles D. Lavine honors Dr. Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe of Germany for humanitarian work advancing unity, compassion, and the well-being of young people.

The honor connects directly to Westbury High School in Old Westbury, New York, where the Prince appeared as a distinguished guest speaker through ESPOIR Youth Programs Incorporated — a platform that brings accomplished voices into direct conversation with students.

A legislator’s signature

Charles D. Lavine’s signature anchors the document. Known for a career built on legal precision and steady community engagement, Lavine has made education and civic responsibility hallmarks of his public service. In presenting this citation, he aligned his office’s values with work that extends beyond any single district — a recognition that influence and service are inherently global.

The citation’s formal “Whereas” structure builds its case methodically: exemplary service to the global community, consistency over time, and a focus on youth. It declares the honoree worthy of the esteem of both the community and the State of New York.

Local roots, global reach

Westbury High School becomes more than a venue in this story — it is the point where a European prince’s humanitarian engagement met Long Island students face to face. That intersection of local initiative and international perspective is exactly what the Assembly chose to recognize.

For Prince Mario-Max, the citation affirms a pattern: show up, speak directly, and treat visibility as responsibility. Albany noticed.

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Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe: New York State Senate Honors Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe in Proclamation by Senator Siela A. Bynoe

The seal of the New York State Senate doesn’t get applied lightly. In a formal proclamation dated April 21, 2026, Senator Siela A. Bynoe of the 6th Senate District honored H.H. Dr. Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe of Germany — recognizing his work across media, philanthropy, education, and youth engagement.

The document describes him as an award-winning television and event host, renowned author, public speaker, and philanthropist, and frames the honor within the Senate’s tradition of recognizing individuals whose work uplifts communities through achievement and public service.

An honor with homework

What gives this proclamation its particular character is where it landed: the Westbury High School Talk, where Prince Mario-Max spoke directly to students about education, confidence, and constructive ambition. The ceremony became a classroom moment — recognition in service of encouragement.

“You can achieve everything you want, work hard and believe in yourself,” he told the students, in the direct, grounded tone that has become his signature with young audiences.

Senator Bynoe’s imprint

Senator Bynoe brings her own historic weight to the gesture. The first Black representative of Long Island in the State Senate, a former ten-year member of the Nassau County Legislature, and Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Libraries, she has built her career on housing, education, and equitable opportunity. Linking a formal Senate honor to a high school event reflects exactly that philosophy: recognition should serve a broader purpose.

For Prince Mario-Max, the proclamation affirms the through line of his public work — that a voice is most valuable when it is lent to the next generation.

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Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe: Prince Mario-Max Heads to Miami for Lior Sabag’s BH24 Launch with We Save Teens Charity

On May 14, 2026, North Miami becomes the stage for one of the year’s most ambitious product debuts. BH24 Inc., led by CEO and Co-Founder Lior Sabag, will unveil a refillable multi-color spray system designed to end seven decades of wasteful single-use spray cans — and the launch is built around purpose as much as product.

Sharing the spotlight is We Save Teens For A Better Tomorrow, the youth charity orchestrated by Aaron Clemens, whose involvement anchors the evening’s humanitarian dimension. Among the featured speakers: Sabag, Eran Hazan, Net Kohen, Val, George Dubec, Clemens himself — and Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe.

Rethinking the spray can

The BH24 concept is a structural redesign, not a tweak. One reusable unit holding multiple colors replaces the old model of separate pressurized cans per color — cutting waste, cost, and clutter. The platform is backed by a U.S. patent application and an international PCT filing, with dozens of innovations folded into a single system.

The ambitions stretch well beyond spray paint. The underlying technology — refillable, multi-component delivery — is engineered to scale across food, cosmetics, beverage, and beauty. Development and commercialization partner Flexinova Global is positioning the platform for international licensing.

An evening with intention

The launch is staged as a high-level gathering of artists, entrepreneurs, investors, and global media, hosted by Patrice “Fox-Ish” Anderson. Red-carpet presentation, elevated staging, a strict tone of sophistication — the setting signals that this is an unveiling meant to be remembered.

But the defining choice is the partnership with We Save Teens. Its mission — supporting vulnerable young people — runs through the event’s messaging as a reminder that innovation earns its keep when it serves the future. “For a better tomorrow” isn’t a tagline here; it’s the evening’s thesis.

For Prince Mario-Max, whose public work keeps circling back to youth, the fit is natural. Miami, May 14: technology and compassion, launched together.

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Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe: Worth Media’s Power 100 Reception Gathers Jim McCann and New York’s Elite at 10 Grand Central

Worth Media and Worth Publishing have a way of making influence feel intimate. Their Power 100 Reception — staged at 10 Grand Central before an elite, invitation-only circle of industry leaders, investors, and cultural power players — has earned its reputation as the publishing and billionaire event of the season.

The evening’s gravitational center was Jim McCann, CEO and Founder of 1-800-Flowers, whose presence set the entrepreneurial tone. Publishing mastermind Josh Kampel helmed the hosting force behind the Worth banner.

Curated, not crowded

Private banking standout Anna Stone called it a “powerhouse event,” and the room delivered: strategic networking wrapped in refined celebration, premium partners Glenfiddich and Hendrick’s Gin keeping the hospitality at Worth’s signature level.

H.H. Dr. Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe was among the guests, moving through a crowd where wealth, media, and influence intersect — precisely the crossroads where Worth has built its brand.

The Power 100 formula is simple and hard to copy: put the right people in the right room, remove the noise, and let opportunity do the rest. At 10 Grand Central, it worked again.

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Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe: Chuck Connelly’s ‘Tribeca’s Midnight Parade’ Turns ONE Art Space Into a Theatrical Animal Kingdom

In the heart of Tribeca, where the streets still remember decades of artistic experimentation, ONE Art Space has given Chuck Connelly the showcase his work deserves. “Tribeca’s Midnight Parade — When Art Runs Wild” opened to a celebrity-packed private gathering before its public run, and the room glowed.

PR powerhouse Norah Lawlor curated an A-list guest list that included HSH Princess Tina Radziwill, among the East Coast’s most exclusive and elegant figures — and H.H. Dr. Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe was there to take it in.

The painting that anchors it all

At the center stands “Animals in the Street” (1994), the defining statement of Connelly’s gift for turning observation into symbol. Painted during his years in a Franklin Street loft, it reimagines Tribeca’s residents as figures blurring human and animal: a judge striding forward as a lion in a trench coat, the artist himself watching quietly as a horse.

The choices are playful and incisive at once — personality and social role made visible through transformation. The canvas preserves a 1990s Tribeca that felt interconnected and alive with creative exchange, before rapid change rewrote the neighborhood.

Stewardship and setting

Co-curated by Adrienne Connelly and MaryAnn Giella McCulloh, the show reflects careful stewardship of an artist whose paintings hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum. McCulloh — daughter of Joe Giella, the comic artist known for collaborations with Stan Lee — directs the gallery with Mei Fung, bringing a storyteller’s sensibility to the hang. Since opening in 2011, ONE Art Space has bridged established and emerging voices; past programs have drawn figures from Al Diaz and Shepard Fairey to Alec Baldwin and Spike Lee.

Connelly’s work endures because it meets the city head-on. His figures shift and evolve as you look, rewarding close attention with humor, intensity, and the texture of real urban life. In Tribeca, in the neighborhood that made him, the parade feels exactly where it belongs.

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Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe: Go Red for Women NYC 2026 Gala Unites Leaders for Women’s Heart Health at Pier Sixty

On April 22, 2026, Pier Sixty on the Chelsea Piers waterfront became the stage for one of the year’s most purposeful evenings: the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women NYC Gala, a defining moment in the movement to transform women’s cardiovascular health.

Guests called it, in unison, the gala of the year. Civic leaders, corporate partners, medical experts, and advocates filled the room — among them H.H. Dr. Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe and celebrity ambassador Samantha Bessudo Drucker, the actress, host, and author whose presence as a survivor gave the evening its human center.

The mission in the room

Cardiovascular disease remains the leading health threat facing women, affecting nearly half of women over twenty. The Go Red for Women initiative has spent more than two decades closing awareness gaps and insisting that women’s heart health be treated with urgency — and the gala is where that mission meets its supporters face to face.

A special guest embodied the medical side of the fight: Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, the renowned women’s heart specialist whose standards of care have set benchmarks in the field.

Leadership on display

The Association’s executive leadership anchored the evening: CEO Nancy Brown, COO Suzie Upton, Chief Science and Medical Officer Mariell Jessup, M.D., Chief Medical Officer for Prevention Eduardo Sanchez, M.D., Chief Science Officer Mitchell S. V. Elkind, M.D., CMO Katrina McGhee, and CFO Cyndi Roberts, alongside Board Chair Lee Shapiro and President Stacey E. Rosen, M.D.

National sponsors CVS Health and Aetna led a deep roster of support including JPMorganChase, Northwell Health, EY, Mastercard, KPMG, Morgan Stanley, PwC, S&P Global, NYU Langone Health, Brookfield, RXR, and Tishman Speyer.

An evening that moves the needle

For Drucker, advocacy works best when it is personal and inclusive — translating complex health messages into conversations people actually have. For Prince Mario-Max, the night was another reminder that influence matters most when it is pointed at something real.

Guests left with renewed purpose, carrying the evening’s clarity forward: progress in women’s heart health is built through sustained effort, guided by science, and powered by rooms exactly like this one.

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Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe: Prince Mario-Max Inspires Westbury High Students at Espoir Youth Programs Talk

It was not an ordinary school day in the Westbury High School theater. A quiet buzz built as students took their seats — and then H.H. Dr. Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe took the stage as the featured guest of Espoir Youth Programs, Inc.’s High School Talk series.

Espoir, founded by Dr. Samarth Joseph and chaired by Dr. Clarence Wilson, Jr., built the series on a simple idea: put accomplished voices in direct conversation with young ambition. On this day, that ambition met a prince with a doctorate and three master’s degrees — and a message students could use immediately.

“You belong in every room”

“You can achieve everything you want, work hard and believe in yourself and you belong in every room!” the Prince told the cheering students. The tone was grounded, not distant: education as a lifelong pursuit, curiosity as a habit, success as something built over time.

He spoke openly about career paths and personal growth, and about mentorship — the principle at the heart of Espoir’s mission, where hope and education fuel each other.

Leaders in the room

Dr. Tahira A. DuPree Chase, Superintendent of the Westbury Union Free School District, anchored the educational side; the Prince praised her charisma and energy, calling her leadership “incredible on a town, state and international comparison.” Town Supervisor Jennifer S. DeSena brought civic weight — “a restless fighter for improvements and rights,” as he put it, “female power which is amazing.” Principal David Zimbler and his team drew warm words for loving the kids “like their own children.”

A special spark came from teacher Naomi Ruth Parisette, whom the Prince knows from his seven years hosting at New York Fashion Week — “what an inspiration for the kids.”

Two honors in one afternoon

The talk closed with ceremony. The Town of North Hempstead presented its Certificate of Recognition, Achievement and Appreciation, dated April 21, 2026 and signed by Supervisor DeSena. Then Dr. Samantha Joseph of Espoir presented a platinum celebration award for educational leadership — a striking glass sculpture in teal, silver, and gold, inscribed with thanks for visiting the children of Westbury.

Students had witnessed more than a ceremony. They had seen what happens when education, leadership, and community show up in the same room — and carry the message home.

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