Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

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Princess Alexandra
Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
With her youngest daughter, Princess Irma
With her youngest daughter, Princess Irma
Spouse Ernst II, 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
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
Royal house Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
House of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Father Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Mother Maria Alexandrovna of Russia
Born 1 September 1878(1878-09-01)
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.

Princess Alexandra with her three sisters. From left to right, Princess Beatrice, Princess Victoria Melita, Princess Alexandra, and Queen Marie of Romania

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:

[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.

Princess Alexandra's coat of arms

[edit] Titles, styles, honours and arms

[edit] Titles and styles

[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

  1. ^ Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 382.
  2. ^ Heraldica – British Royalty Cadency

[edit] See also

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