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Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband is saying happy anniversary in a big way.

Frederic Von Anhalt has taken out a billboard on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles to celebrate the couple’s 25th wedding anniversary. Beside the couple’s wedding photo, it reads, “Prince Frederic & Princess Zsa Zsa 25 years and counting.” It also includes Von Anhalt’s website.

Gabor and Von Anhalt were married August 14, 1986.

He said the billboard is an anniversary gift for his ailing 94-year-old wife, who smiled when she saw a picture of it on TV.

“She said, `Oscar de la Renta,’” Von Anhalt said Thursday, adding that she is wearing a dress by the designer in the photo on the billboard. “It was her favorite dress, and she looked at it and she remembered it.”

Von Anhalt said he spent his “life savings” on the $68,000 billboard, which will be up for one month.

“The billboard was very expensive,” said the 68-year-old, who says he is a German prince. “I just put my life savings in it. I said forget about tomorrow. I want to do it today. I want to do it for her.”

“Being married to Zsa Zsa these 25 years, it’s priceless,” he continued. “What she gave to me, the things we did together, the happy life we had together, you can’t pay for it with money. It was perfect. It was just perfect and we’re going to go on.”

Gabor has been hospitalized repeatedly over the past year and had her leg amputated in January. Von Anhalt said she remains bedridden at home.

“It didn’t get better or worse,” he said. “Every day is a gift from God when you’re 94 and have been through all those things. We make the best out of it and make it as comfortable as possible for her.”

He said that he is planning an anniversary party at the couple’s Bel-Air home next month. Gabor wants to see some friends, he said, who will be allowed to visit her in her bedroom one at a time.

Von Anhalt said his wife will have her hair and makeup done for the party: “She can’t get out of bed, but I want her to look beautiful.”

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s financial woes have worsened after her California mansion was targeted by burglars in the early hours of Sunday.

The ailing actress’ husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, claims he was awoken by a loud sound in the middle of the night and found two men ransacking their sprawling Bel Air home.

He tells TMZ.com he attempted to chase the intruders out with a baseball bat, but fell and hurt his hip as they made their escape.

According to Von Anhalt, the burglars got as far as the living room and he believes they made off with several of the couple’s prized possessions, including paintings, a laptop, a camera and some statues.

Police were called to the scene to investigate the break-in.

The incident comes at a difficult time for the couple – Gabor, 94, has suffered a number of health problems in recent months and recently spent time in hospital to treat an infection in her amputated leg, while von Anhalt has been forced to put their home on the market in a bid to help pay her spiralling medical bills.

Zsa Zsa Gabor has a high fever, fluid in her lungs, an infection that developed after her recent leg amputation, and hasn’t recognized anyone since the surgery, leading doctors to say she probably suffered a stroke, her husband said Tuesday.

Frederic Prinz von Anhalt was at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center with his wife as doctors worked to stabilize her in the emergency room.

Gabor, whose 94th birthday is Sunday, ate breakfast then started spitting up blood and was running the fever, von Anhalt said.

“The doctor told me her leg is infected again. They have to treat it right now. Hopefully they are going to get her stabilized in a few hours,” von Anhalt said. Her leg was amputated because of gangrene.

Gabor was “sort of conscious,” he said.

“She doesn’t know what is going on. She has no memories. It could come back but the doctor doesn’t know yet,” van Anhalt said.

Doctors told him the only explanation for her failed memory was that she had a small stroke during the amputation.

Gabor was released from Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Jan. 22, a week after doctors removed most of her right leg.

A hospital spokesman said because of confidentiality laws, he could not confirm or deny that she was at the hospital or give a condition update.

Gabor broke her hip and had replacement surgery in July. She had been hospitalized several times for swelling and clots then the amputation.

After the surgery, Dr. David Rigberg, associate professor of vascular surgery at the hospital, said there were no complications, but her health was frail and she was being monitored closely.

During one hospital trip in August, Gabor was listed in critical condition and asked for a priest, but she recovered and returned home.

Gabor has used a wheelchair since she was partially paralyzed in a 2002 car accident, and she had a stroke in 2005.

A Hungarian-born sex symbol of the 1950s and 1960s, Gabor appeared in movies such as “Moulin Rouge” in 1952 and “Queen of Outer Space” in 1958.

She was a regular on the television special and game show circuit, always with her trademark accent and endearment “dahling.”

Zsa Zsa Gabor and her husband are selling their Los Angeles mansion for an asking price of $28 million, putting on the market a home once lived in by Elvis Presley, her spokesman said on Wednesday.

The hillside house in the exclusive Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel Air was built for the late aviator and industrialist Howard Hughes, said John Blanchette, a publicist for Gabor.

Presley lived in the house — which has 26 rooms and a pool — decades ago when he was acting in movies filmed in Los Angeles, Blanchette said. It is built into a hillside and overlooks the city.

Gabor, 93, the star of 1950s films “Moulin Rouge” and “Lili,” had her leg amputated on Friday because of a gangrene infection after hip replacement surgery in July.

She is recovering in a Los Angeles hospital where doctors have said they are “guardedly optimistic” about her prospects.

“We only use two rooms, all the other rooms are locked up. It doesn’t make sense for two people to live in such a big place,” her ninth husband, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, told Reuters.

The couple plans to move to a luxury condominium, he said.

Gabor bought the mansion from Elvis’ estate in the 1970s, sometime after his death, for $600,000, von Anhalt said.

The actress got an offer of $18 million for the place 10 years ago, he said.