Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Infobox British Royalty|royal
name =Princess Alexandra
title =Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg


caption =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 ="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
date of birth =birth date|1878|9|1|df=y
place of birth =Rosenau Castle, Coburg
date of death =death date and age|1942|4|16|1878|9|1|df=y
place of death =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.

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.

and Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

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:
* Prince Gottfried Hermann Alfred Paul Maximilian Viktor, 8th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (24 May 1897 - 11 May 1960); married Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark had issue
* Princess Marie Melita Leopoldine Victoria Feodora Alexandra of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (18 January 1899 - 8 November 1967)
* Princess Alexandra Beatrice Leopoldine of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (2 April 1901 - 26 October 1963)
* Princess Irma Helene of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (4 July 1902 - 8 March 1986)
* Prince Alfred of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (16 April 1911 - 18 April 1911)

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. [Jonathan Petropoulos, "Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany" (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 382.] 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.

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

*1 September 1878 – 23 August 1893: "Her Royal Highness" Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh
*23 August 1893 – 20 April 1896: "Her Royal Highness" Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
*20 April 1896 - 9 March 1913: "Her Royal Highness" The Hereditary Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
*9 March 1913 – 16 April 1942: "Her Royal Highness" The Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

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. [ [http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/cadency.htm Heraldica – British Royalty Cadency] ]

Ancestry

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1= 1. Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
2= 2. Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
3= 3. Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia
4= 4. Albert, Prince Consort
5= 5. Victoria of the United Kingdom
6= 6. Alexander II of Russia
7= 7. Marie of Hesse
8= 8. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
9= 9. Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
10= 10. Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
11= 11. Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
12= 12. Nicholas I of Russia
13= 13. Charlotte of Prussia
14= 14. Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse
15= 15. Princess Wilhelmine of Baden
16= 16. Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
17= 17. Princess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf
18= 18. Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
19= 19. Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
20= 20. George III of the United Kingdom
21= 21. Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
22= 22. Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (= 16)
23= 23. Princess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (= 17)
24= 24. Paul I of Russia
25= 25. Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg
26= 26. Frederick William III of Prussia
27= 27. Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
28= 28. Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse
29= 29. Landgravine Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt
30= 30. Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden
31= 31. Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt

Notes

ee also

*British princess