Turiya Hanover

Who is Turiya Hanover?

Turiya Hanover, aka Wibke, Princess of Hanover, née van Gunsteren, is a German psychotherapist, and a married-in member of the Royal Family of Hanover. She has published some new-age music.

Wibke was born as daughter of Ursula Schmidt-Prange and Dr. Hans-Daniel Christians, a physician. Her mother then married a Harry van Gunsteren, and the whole young family had van Gunsteren as surname, including the stepdaughter Wibke.

In 1969, Wibke married Prince Welf of Hanover, who was a first cousin of Prince Ernst August of Hanover, the current head of the House of Guelf, as well as a first cousin of Charles, Prince of Wales, the current heir to the thrones of British Commonwealth.

In 1970, they had a child, Princess Saskia of Hanover, currently known as Mrs Saskia Hooper.

In 1973, Wibke started to work as spiritual therapeut.

In 1975, she and her husband Welf moved to India, having joined the spiritualist group they moved to live with. Wibke and Welf had become followers of a syncretic movement led by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. In 1975, Welf and Wibke, along with their five-year-old daughter Tania Saskia, made a pilgrimage to Poona, India to live in an ashram with other followers of Bhagwan. Once there, Bhagwan gave Welf the name Vimalkirti and Wibke Turiya.