Princess Elisabeth, Duchess in Bavaria

Countess Elisabeth Douglas
Princess of Bavaria, Duchess in Bavaria
Spouse Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria
Issue
Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein
Marie-Caroline, Duchess Philipp of Württemberg
Duchess Helena Eugenie
Duchess Elizabeth Marie, Mrs. Daniel Terberger
Duchess Maria Anna, Mrs. Klaus Runow
Full name
Elisabeth Christina
House House of Douglas
House of Wittelsbach
Father Count Carl Ludvig Douglas
Mother Ottora Maria Haas-Heye
Born 30 December 1940 (1940-12-30) (age 71)
Stockholm, Sweden

Princess Elisabeth, Duchess in Bavaria (born 31 December 1940) is the wife of Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria, heir presumptive to both the former Bavarian Royal House and the Jacobite Succession.

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Family background

Elisabeth was born at Stockholm, Sweden on 31 December 1940. She was the first daughter of Count Carl Ludvig Douglas and Ottora Maria Haas-Heye. She was granddaughter of General Vilhelm Archibald Douglas. Her maternal great-grandfather was Philip, Prince of Eulenburg and Hertefeld (1847–1921) (friend of Wilhelm II, German Emperor), whose youngest child Viktoria Ada Astrid Agnes (1886–1967) married in 1909 Professor Otto Ludwig Haas-Heye (1879–1959), and had issue, including two daughters. Elisabeth descends through both her mother and father from medieval Scandinavian nobility and rulers. However, her father's patriline is Scottish, of the Swedish-German branch, descended via two obscure generations,[1] descended from the youngest son of James Douglas, 1st Baron of Dalkeith, ancestor of the 15th century Earls of Morton. All these Douglases were of the Morton branch of the ancient Douglas family. Her younger sister Rosita married in 1972 to John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough but divorced in 2008.

Marriage and family

Countess Elisabeth married on 10 January 1967 in Kreuth, to Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria, son of Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria and his first wife, Countess Maria Draskovich of Trakostjan and great-grandson of King Ludwig III of Bavaria.

They had five daughters:

Titles and styles

  • 30 December 1940 – 10 January 1967: Countess Elisabeth Christina Douglas-Stjernorp auf Mühlhausen und Langenstein
  • 10 January 1967 – present: Her Royal Highness Princess Elisabeth of Bavaria, Duchess in Bavaria

Ancestry

Notes and sources

  1. ^ The descent is unquestionably legitimate from one Patrick Douglas, of Standingstone, who married Cairistiona Leslie, and whose son Robert Douglas (1611-1662) emigrated to Sweden and became the first Swedish count Douglas