Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught

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Princess Louise Margaret
Duchess of Connaught and Strathearn
Spouse Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
Issue
Princess Margaret of Connaught
Prince Arthur of Connaught
Lady Patricia Ramsay
Full name
Louise Margaret Alexandra Victoria Agnes
German: Luise Margarete Alexandra Victoria Agnes
Titles
HRH The Duchess of Connaught
HRH Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia
Royal house House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
House of Hohenzollern
Father Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia
Mother Maria Anna of Anhalt
Born 25 July 1860
Potsdam, Germany
Died 14 July 1917
Clarence House, London
Burial Frogmore, Windsor
Occupation Canadian Viceregal Consort

Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (Louise Margaret Alexandra Victoria Agnes; later Duchess of Connaught and Strathearn; 25 July 1860 - 14 July 1917) was a German princess, and later a member of the British Royal Family, the wife of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught. She also served as the Viceregal Consort of Canada, when her husband served as the Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916.

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[edit] Early life

Princess Luise Margarete was born at Marmorpalais (Marble Palace) near Potsdam, Germany. Her father was Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828-1888), the son of Karl of Prussia (1801-1883) and his wife Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar (1808-1877). Her mother was Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt (1837-1906), daughter of Leopold IV of Anhalt-Dessau. Her father, a nephew of the German Emperor Wilhelm I, distinguished himself as a field commander during the Battle of Metz and the campaigns west of Paris in the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War.

[edit] Marriage

On 13 March 1879, Princess Luise Margarete married Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught at St. George's Chapel Windsor. Prince Arthur was the 7th child and 3rd son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After her marriage she was styled Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Connaught and her name was anglicized as Louise Margaret.

[edit] Duchess of Connaught

The Duchess of Connaught spent the first twenty years of her marriage accompanying her husband on his various deployments throughout the British empire. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught acquired Bagshot Park in Surrey as their country home and after 1900 used Clarence House as their London residence. She accompanied her husband to Canada in 1911, when he began his term as governor general. In 1916, she became colonel-in-chief of the 199th Canadian (Overseas) Infantry Battalion (The Duchess of Connaught's Own Irish-Canadian Rangers), CEF. In 1885, she became chief of the 64th (8th Brandenburg) Regiment of Infantry "Field Marshal General Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia", Prussian Army.

[edit] Later life

The Duchess of Connaught died of influenza and bronchitis at Clarence House, a casualty of the 1917-18 influenza epidemic. She was buried in the Royal Mausoleum, Frogmore, Windsor. The Duke of Connaught survived her by almost twenty-five years.

[edit] Titles, styles, honours and arms

[edit] Titles

  • 1860-1879: Her Royal Highness Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia
  • 1879-1917: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Connaught

[edit] Honours

Styles of
The Duchess of Connaught
Reference style Her Royal Highness
Spoken style Your Royal Highness
Alternative style Ma'am

CI: Companion of the Order of the Crown of India (March 1879)
RRC: Member of the Royal Red Cross (1883)
DStJ: Dame of Justice of St. John (1888)
VA: Lady of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert (1893)

[edit] Issue

Name Birth Death Notes
Princess Margaret of Connaught 15 January 1882 1 May 1920 married, 15 June 1905, Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden; had issue
Prince Arthur of Connaught 13 January 1883 12 September 1938 married, 15 October 1913, Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife; had issue
Princess Patricia of Connaught 17 March 1886 12 January 1974 married, 27 February 1919, Captain Sir Alexander Ramsay, renouncing her title and becoming Lady Patricia Ramsay; had issue

[edit] Legacy

The maternity wing attached to Aldershot's former military hospital, the Cambridge Military Hospital was also named in her honor as the Louise Margaret Maternity Hospital.

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