Marie of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

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Victoria Marie of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, around 1898/1901

Victoria Marie Auguste Luise Antoinette Karoline Leopoldine, Duchess of Mecklenburg  [-Strelitz] (born May 8, 1878 in Neustrelitz , † October 14, 1948 in Oberkassel ) was a member of the Grand Ducal House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz .

Life

Duchess Marie was the eldest daughter of four children of Grand Duke Adolf Friedrich V (1848–1914) and his wife Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt (1857–1933), daughter of Duke Friedrich I and Princess Antoinette of Saxony-Altenburg . Her paternal grandparents were Grand Duke Friedrich Wilhelm (II.) Of Mecklenburg  [-Strelitz] and Princess Augusta Karoline of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover .

Her childhood revolved around perfect behavior and social representation. She was taught exclusively at home by governesses and tutors with the help of her father's library . Princess Victoria Marie fell in love with a married palace servant, Friedrich Hecht, and when she became pregnant shortly afterwards, she traveled to her grandmother in England to avoid a scandal. She gave birth to a daughter in London in 1898. The child's father was dismissed from the service of the Grand Ducal and later had to answer for theft in court.

Marie went to France shortly afterwards, where she met Count Georg Maurice Jametel (1859-1944), son of Ernest Jametel, a banker and medicine manufacturer. His father was in 1886 by Pope Leo XIII. been raised to the nobility. They were married on June 22, 1899 in a Catholic chapel in Richmond Park , near the White Lodge , the estate of their great-aunt, Duchess Mary Adelaide von Teck . On the same day there was a second Anglican wedding in the parish church in Kew . Although marriage as a left-handed marriage was, she got an annual alimony of 200,000 US dollars . The marriage, which reportedly turned out to be unhappy, had two children:

  • Georg Friedrich (1904–1982), Count Jametel ⚭ 1948 Lise Barbet
  • Marie Auguste (May) (1905–1969), Countess Jametel, since 1910 Countess Nemerow ⚭ 1928 Karl von Barton called von Stedman

During the first few years of their marriage, they lived alternately in London and in Saint-Germain-en-Laye , Île-de-France . After the marriage failed, the couple lived separately from 1906. When the love affair between her husband and Princess Maria Eulalia de Bourbon-Montpensier became public, Marie filed for divorce in 1908. In August of the same year, her younger brother Karl Borwin , in order to defend the honor of his sister , challenged her husband to a duel - he was fatally injured. The marriage was divorced on December 31, 1908 and her daughter was awarded the title of Countess von Nemerow by the Grand Duke . She lived with her daughter in Neustrelitz and later in the Villa zur Lippe in Blasewitz , a villa suburb near Dresden, which was built for her (and was later called) .

On August 11, 1914, Marie married Prince Julius Ernst zur Lippe (1873–1952), the third son of Ernst zur Lippe-Biesterfeld and Karoline, born in Neustrelitz . Countess von Wartensleben. The marriage, which reportedly turned out to be a happy one, had two children:

  • Elisabeth Caroline (1916–2013), Princess zur Lippe ⚭ 1939 Ernst August Prince of Solms-Braunfels
  • Ernst August (1917–1990), Prince zur Lippe (Noble Lord and Count of Biesterfeld etc.) ⚭ 1944 Christa von Arnim

Princess Marie died during a spa stay in Oberkassel from the effects of pneumonia and was in the family tomb of the royal family to the lip in Heisterbach Abbey , Koenigswinter, buried.

Her name was in her different phases of life

  • 1878–1899 Princess Marie of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Duchess of Mecklenburg
  • 1899–1908 Countess Victoria Marie Jametel
  • 1908–1914 Princess Marie of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Duchess of Mecklenburg
  • 1914–1948 Princess Victoria Marie zur Lippe

literature

  • Frank Erstling, Frank Saß, Eberhard Schulze: The Princely House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. In: Frank Erstling (Red.): Mecklenburg-Strelitz, contributions to the history of a region. 2nd edition, Steffen, Friedland in Mecklenburg 2001, ISBN 3-9807532-0-4 .
  • James Pope-Hennessy: Queen Mary 1867-1953. G. Allen and Unwin, London 1959. / New edition: Phoenix Press, London 2000, ISBN 1-84212-032-8 .
  • Ricardo Mateos Sáinz de Medrano: L'Affaire Jametel. Royalty digest.

Web links

Commons : Victoria Marie von Mecklenburg-Strelitz  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ today a district of Bonn
  2. ↑ So the official form of the name according to various state calendars for Mecklenburg-Strelitz , which she always recorded as a member of the grand ducal house.
personal data
SURNAME Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Victoria Marie, Duchess of Mecklenburg; Victoria Marie Auguste Luise Antoinette Karoline Leopoldine, Duchess of Mecklenburg; Victoria Marie Auguste Luise Antoinette Karoline Leopoldine, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz; Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Victoria Marie von (wrong name form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Member of the ducal house of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustrelitz
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1948
Place of death Oberkassel