 The Prince continued in this role until 1862, when he resigned in the midst of a struggle with parliament over the military budget.After this, Karl Anton largely resigned from active politics and focused on his role as head of the Catholic branch of the Hohenzollern family, accentuated by the extinction of the Hohenzollern-Hechingen line in 1869.In 1866, his second son, Karl, was offered the throne of Romania, where he would rule for nearly forty years as Carol I.