Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia

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Princess Louise Margaret
Duchess of Connaught and Strathearn
Spouse	Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
Issue
Princess Margaret, Crown Princess of Sweden Prince Arthur of Connaught Lady Patricia Ramsay
Full name
Louise Margaret Alexandra Victoria Agnes German: Luise Margarete Alexandra Victoria Agnes
Detail Titles and styles
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(1860-07-25) Potsdam, Germany
Died	14 July 1917 (aged 56) Clarence House, London
Burial	Frogmore, Windsor

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.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Marriage 3 Duchess of Connaught 4 Later life 5 Titles, styles, honours and arms 5.1 Titles and styles 5.2 Honours 6 Issue 7 Ancestry 8 Legacy

[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 1917-1918 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

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

[edit] Titles and styles

• 25 July 1860 – 13 March 1879: Her Royal Highness Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia
• 13 March 1879 – 14 July 1917: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Connaught

[edit] Honours

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

[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] Ancestry

[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.

v • d • e British princesses by marriage 1st generation Caroline, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland 2nd generation Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales 3rd generation Maria, Duchess of Gloucester* · Anne, Duchess of Cumberland* 4th generation Caroline, Queen of the United Kingdom · Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York · Adelaide, Queen of the United Kingdom · Victoria, Duchess of Kent · Frederica, Queen of Hanover · Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge 5th generation Marie, Queen of Hanover 6th generation Alexandra, Queen of the United Kingdom · Maria Alexandrovna, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha · Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught · Helena, Duchess of Albany · Thyra, Crown Princess of Hanover 7th generation Mary, Queen of the United Kingdom · Victoria Adelaide, Duchess of Albany · Victoria Louise, Duchess of Brunswick 8th generation Elizabeth, Queen of the United Kingdom* · Alice, Duchess of Gloucester* · Marina, Duchess of Kent · Ortrud, Princess of Hanover · Monika, Princess of Hanover · Sophie, Princess George William of Hanover 9th generation Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester* · Katharine, Duchess of Kent* · Marie-Christine, Princess Michael of Kent 10th generation Diana, Princess of Wales* · Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall* · Sarah, Duchess of York* · Sophie, Countess of Wessex* *did not have a royal or noble title by birth

Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha House of Hohenzollern Born: 25 July 1860 Died: 14 July 1917
Preceded by The Countess Grey	Viceregal Consort of Canada 1904–1911	Succeeded by The Duchess of Devonshire