Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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| Princess Alexandra | |
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| Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg | |
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| With her youngest daughter, Princess Irma | |
| Spouse | Ernst, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg |
| Issue | |
| Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Princess Marie-Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Princess Alexandra of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Princess Irma of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Prince Alfred of Hohenlohe-Langenburg |
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| Full name | |
| Alexandra Louise Olga Victoria | |
| Titles and styles | |
| HRH The Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg HRH Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha HRH Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh |
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| Royal house | Saxe-Coburg-Gotha |
| Father | Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha |
| Mother | Maria Alexandrovna of Russia |
| Born | 1 September 1878 Rosenau Castle, Coburg |
| Died | 16 April 1942 (aged 63) Schwabisch Hall, Germany |
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Alexandra Louise Olga Victoria; 1 September 1878 – 16 April 1942) was a member of the British Royal Family.
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[edit] Early life
Princess Alexandra's father was Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second eldest son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Albert, Prince Consort. Her mother was Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia, a daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Marie of Hesse and by Rhine.
In 1893, her great-uncle, Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (brother of her paternal grandfather, Prince Albert) died without descendants. Since Albert was dead, and her uncle, Edward VII of the United Kingdom, the Prince of Wales, had renounced his claim to the ducal throne of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the vacant duchy fell to Alexandra's father, the Duke of Edinburgh. Thus Princess Alexandra was both a British princess and Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
[edit] Marriage
On 20 April 1896 in Coburg, Germany, Princess Alexandra married Ernst Wilhelm Friedrich Carl Maximilian, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (13 September 1863 - 11 December 1950. Together they had five children:
- Prince Gottfried Hermann Alfred Paul Maximilian Viktor, 8th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (24 May 1897 - 11 May 1960)
- Princess Marie-Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (18 January 1899 - 8 November 1967)
- Princess Alexandra Beatrice Leopoldine of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (2 April 1901 - 26 October 1963)
- Princess Irma Helene of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (4 July 1902 - 8 March 1986)
- Prince Alfred of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (16 April 1911 - 18 April 1911)
[edit] Later life
Nicknamed 'Sandra' by her family, Alexandra lived for the rest of her life in Germany. On 1 May 1937, she joined the Nazi Party together with several of her children. [1] She died in Schwäbisch Hall, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany in 1942.
Her eldest son, Gottfried, 8th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, was named in an unsavory manner as part of the custody suit over Gloria Vanderbilt ("Little Gloria") between her mother Gloria Laura Mercedes Morgan (1904-1965) and the child's aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
[edit] Titles, styles, honours and arms
[edit] Titles and styles
- 1 September 1878 – 23 August 1893: Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh
- 23 August 1893 – 20 April 1896: Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- 20 April 1896 - 9 March 1913: Her Royal Highness The Hereditary Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
- 9 March 1913 – 16 April 1942: Her Royal Highness The Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
[edit] British arms
Alexandra's personal coat of arms was that of the British monarch, with an inescutcheon of the shield of Saxony, all differenced, as a male-line grandchild, with a label argent of five points, the central point bearing a cross gules, the inner pair anchors azure, and the outer pair fleurs-de-lys azure. In 1917, the inescutcheon was dropped by royal warrant from George V.[2]
[edit] Ancestry
[edit] Notes
- ^ Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 382.
- ^ Heraldica – British Royalty Cadency
