Margaret of Prussia
Princess Margarethe Beatrice Feodora of Prussia VA (born April 22, 1872 in Potsdam , Neues Palais ; † January 22, 1954 in Schönberg near Kronberg , Hesse ) was Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel by marriage.
origin
Margarethe, called "Mossy" in the family circle , was the youngest daughter of the Crown Prince and later Emperor Friedrich Wilhelm (Friedrich III.) (1831–1888) and his wife, Princess Royal Victoria (1840–1901), the eldest daughter of the British Queen Victoria and her Prince Consort Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . Her paternal grandfather was the first German Emperor and King of Prussia, Wilhelm I. Like her two sisters Sophie and Viktoria , she was very close to her mother and was very fond of the English way of life. She died as the last of the children of Emperor Friedrich III.
Marriage and offspring
On January 25, 1893, she married Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse , future King of Finland and later head of the Hessen-Kassel branch in the House of Hesse . The harmonious and happy marriage resulted in six sons, including two pairs of twins:
- Friedrich Wilhelm Sigismund of Hessen (1893–1916), killed in Romania
- Maximilian Friedrich Wilhelm Georg von Hessen (1894–1914), killed in Flanders
- Philip of Hesse (1896–1980) ⚭ Princess Mafalda of Savoy
- Wolfgang von Hessen (1896–1989) ⚭ Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden
- Christoph Ernst August von Hessen (1901–1943), fallen in Italy, ⚭ Princess Sophie of Greece
- Richard Wilhelm Leopold of Hesse (1901–1969)
In 1918 Friedrich Karl was elected King of Finland, which had just become independent. Margarethe thus became Queen of Finland and the legal successor of her cousin, Tsarina Alexandra Fjodorovna , who had previously carried the title of Grand Duchess of Finland . Germany's defeat in World War I ended this career as a royal couple after just nine weeks. After his brother's resignation, Friedrich Karl became head of the House of Hessen-Kassel.
Pedigree
literature
- Barbara Beck: Wilhelm II and his siblings. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2016; ISBN 978-3-7917-2750-9 .
- Karin Feuerstein-Prasser: The German Empresses. 1871-1918 . Piper, Munich and Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-492-23641-3 .
- Jonathan Petropoulos: Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany. Oxford University Press 2006, ISBN 0-19-979607-6 .
Web links
- Princess Margarethe of Prussia
- Margarethe of Prussia in the family tree wiki
- Prussia, Margarethe Princess of. Hessian biography. (As of February 28, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prussia, Margarethe von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Margarethe Beatrice Feodora of Prussia (full name); Margaret of Hesse |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nobles, by marriage Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Potsdam , Prussia , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1954 |
| Place of death | Schönberg near Kronberg , Hesse , Federal Republic of Germany |