Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia
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| Princess Victoria Louise | |
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| Duchess of Brunswick | |
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| Photography of Princess Victoria Louise in 1910 | |
| Spouse | Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick |
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| Ernest Augustus IV Prince George William Frederica, Queen of the Hellenes Prince Christian Oscar Prince Welf Henry |
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| Victoria Louise Adelaide Matilda Charlotte | |
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| HRH The Dowager Duchess of Brunswick HRH The Duchess of Brunswick HRH Princess Ernest Augustus of Cumberland and Hanover HRH Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia |
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| Father | William II, German Emperor |
| Mother | Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein |
| Born | 13 September 1892 Marble Palace, Potsdam |
| Died | 11 December 1980 (aged 88) Hanover |
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, Duchess of Brunswick (Victoria Louise Adelaide Matilda Charlotte; German: Viktoria Luise Adelheid Mathilde Charlotte; 13 September 1892 – 11 December 1980) was the only daughter and the seventh child of William II, German Emperor and Empress Augusta Victoria – at the time of her death, she was their last surviving child. Princess Victoria Louise is the maternal grandmother of Queen Sophie of Spain and the former King Constantine II of the Hellenes.
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[edit] Marriage
Ernest Augustus, heir to the title of Duke of Cumberland, and grandson of Christian IX of Denmark through the latter's daughter, Princess Thyra of Denmark, came to the court and fell in love with Victoria Louise. Their marriage, on 24 May 1913 in Berlin, put an end to the rift between the House of Hanover and House of Hohenzollern that began after the 1866 annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover into the Kingdom of Prussia following the Austro-Prussian War. Their wedding was one of the last great social events of European royalty before World War I. It was celebrated in the presence of George V of the United Kingdom and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Empress Augusta Victoria took the separation from her youngest child and only daughter badly and spent the night weeping.
Victoria Louise and Ernest Augustus had five children:
| Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
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| Ernest Augustus IV, Prince of Hanover | 18 March 1914 | 9 December 1987 | married firstly 1951, Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg; had issue.
married secondly 1981, Countess Monika of Solms-Laubach; no issue. |
| Prince George Wiliam | 25 March 1915 | 8 January 2006 | married 1969, Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark; had issue. |
| Princess Frederika, Queen of the Hellenes | 18 April 1917 | 6 February 1981 | married 1938, Paul of Greece; had issue. |
| Prince Christian Oscar | 1 September 1919 | 10 December 1981 | married 1963, Mireille Dutry (10 January 1946 – ); divorced 1976; had issue. |
| Prince Welf Henry | 11 March 1923 | 12 July 1997 | married 1960, Princess Alexandra of Ysenburg and Büdingen; no issue. |
[edit] Titles, styles, honours and arms
[edit] Titles and styles
- 13 September 1892 – 24 May 1913: Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia
- 24 May – 1 November 1913: Her Royal Highness Princess Ernest Augustus of Hanover
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- in Britain: Her Royal Highness Princess Ernest Augustus of Cumberland
- 1 November 1913 – 30 January 1953: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Brunswick
- 20 January 1953 – 11 December 1980: Her Royal Highness The Dowager Duchess of Brunswick
As the wife of a prince of the House of Hanover, Victoria Louise also bore the titles Princess of Hanover, Royal Princess of Great Britain and Ireland and Duchess of Brunswick and Lunenburg.
[edit] Legacy
[edit] Publications
Approximate translations of the titles into English are given in parentheses.
- Ein Leben als Tochter des Kaisers ("Life as Daughter of the Emperor")
- Im Strom der Zeit ("In the Stream of Time")
- Bilder der Kaiserzeit ("Pictures from the Imperial Period")
- Vor 100 Jahren ("100 Years Ago")
- Die Kronprinzessin ("The Crown Princess" (her sister-in-law, Duchess Cecily of Mecklenburg-Schwerin))
- Deutschlands letzte Kaiserin ("Germany's Last Empress" (her mother, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein))
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[edit] Pop Culture
“Die Prinzessin von Preussen” (The Princess of Prussia, Victoria Louise) by artist Shaun von Knasick of the band Star Chamber released on Toten Troll Records, London, England, 2003.
[edit] Ancestry
[edit] References
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Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia
Born: 13 September 1892 Died: 11 December 1980 |
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| Hanoverian royalty | ||
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Title last held by
Princess Mary of Baden |
Duchess consort of Brunswick 2 November 1913 – 8 November 1918 |
Vacant |
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| Loss of title |
— TITULAR — Duchess consort of Brunswick 8 November 1918 – 30 January 1953 Reason for succession failure: Duchy abolished in 1918 |
Succeeded by Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg |
| Preceded by Princess Thyra of Denmark |
— TITULAR — Queen consort of Hanover 14 November 1923 – 30 January 1953 Reason for succession failure: Hanover annexed by Prussia in 1866 |
Succeeded by Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg |
| — TITULAR — Duchess consort of Cumberland and Teviotdale 14 November 1923 – 30 January 1953 Reason for succession failure: Titles Deprivation Act 1917 |
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