 He was Captain à la suite in the Royal Bulgarian Infantry, and Grand Master of the Order of the Rue Crown, and also a Knight in the Order of the Black Eagle and Knight Grand Cross in the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.As head of the House of Wettin after 1932, he styled himself as "Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen".According to the Portuguese primogeniture law, he also should have succeeded to Portugal in 1932.