Duchess Amelia of Württemberg
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Amalie Therese Louise Wilhelmina Philippine of Württemberg (Altenburg, June 28, 1799 – November 28, 1848) was a Duchess of Württemberg and ancestor of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Sofía of Spain and five Kings of Greece.
She was a daughter of Duke Louis of Württemberg and Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg.
She married on April 24, 1817 at Kirchheim unter Teck with Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1789-1868), son of Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg.
Amalie and Joseph had six daughters:
- Alexandrine Marie Wilhelmine Katharine Charlotte Therese Henriette Luise Pauline Elisabeth Friederike Georgine (b. Hildburghausen, 14 April 1818 - d. Gmunden, 9 January 1907), married on 18 February 1843 to King George V of Hanover.
- Pauline Friederike Henriette Auguste (b. Kirchheim unter Teck, 24 November 1819 - d. Hildburghausen, 11 January 1825).
- Henriette Friederike Therese Elisabeth (b. Hildburghausen, 9 October 1823 - d. Altenburg, 3 April 1915).
- Elisabeth Pauline Alexandrine (b. Hildburghausen, 26 March 1826 - d. Oldenburg, 2 February 1896), married on 10 February 1852 to Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg.
- Alexandra Friederike Henriette Pauline Marianne Elisabeth [upon her marriage, she took the name Alexandra Iosifovna in a Russian Orthodox baptism] (b. Altenburg, 8 July 1830 - d. St.Petersburg, 6 July 1911), married on 11 September 1848 to Constantine Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia.
- Luise (b. Altenburg, 4 June 1832 - d. Hummelshain, 29 August 1833).
Amalia died on november 28 1848 at the age of 49 in Altenburg. Her husband decided two days later to abdicate in the favor of his brother Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. Joseph died in 1868 at Altenburg.
