Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
| Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg | |
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| Duchess consort of Schleswig-Holstein | |
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| Spouse | Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein |
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| Friedrich, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg Augusta Victoria, German Empress and Queen of Prussia Karoline Mathilde, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg Gerhard , Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein Louise, Princess Friedrich Leopold of Prussia Feodora Adelheid, Princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg |
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| House | House of Hohenlohe-Langenburg House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg |
| Father | Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg |
| Mother | Princess Feodora of Leiningen |
| Born | 20 July 1835 |
| Died | 25 January 1900 (aged 64) |
Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (July 20, 1835 – January 25, 1900) was a niece of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. She was the second daughter of Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Princess Feodora of Leiningen, older half-sister of the British queen.[1] She is a matrillineal ancestor of Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
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[edit] Napoleon III's proposal of marriage
In 1852, not long after Napoléon III became Emperor of France, he made a proposal of marriage to Adelheid's parents after he had been rebuffed by Princess Carola of Sweden. Although he had never met her, the political advantages of the marriage for the Emperor were obvious. It would gain dynastic respectability for the Bonaparte line, and could promote closer alliance between France and Britain, because Adelheid was Queen Victoria's niece. At the same time, she was not officially a member of the British royal family, so the risk of refusal was small. Adelheid could be expected to be sufficiently grateful for her good fortune to convert to Roman Catholicism.
In fact, the proposal horrified Queen Victoria and vexed the Prince Consort, who preferred not to confer such hasty legitimacy upon France's latest "revolutionary" regime — the durability of which was deemed dubious — nor to yield up a young kinswoman for the purpose. The British court maintained a strict silence toward the Hohenlohes during the marriage negotiations, lest the Queen seem either eager for or repulsed by the prospect of Napoléon as a nephew-in-law.
The parents, accurately interpreting the British silence as disapproval, declined the French offer—to their sixteen year-old daughter's dismay. This may have been only a maneuver by the Hohenlohes to get concessions from the French to secure their daughter's future interests.But before his ministers could press his case with further inducements, Napoléon gave up pursuit of a royal consort. Instead he offered marriage to Eugénie de Montijo, Countess of Teba, whom he had been simultaneously soliciting to become his mistress, and who had refused his advances.[2]
[edit] Marriage and children
On September 11, 1856 Adelheid married Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. They were parents to seven children[3]:
- HSH Prince Friedrich of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (August 3, 1857 - October 29, 1858).
- HSH Princess Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (October 22, 1858 - April 11, 1921); married Wilhelm II of Germany.
- HSH Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (January 25, 1860 - February 20, 1932). Married Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. He was a son of Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, second son of Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel.
- HSH Prince Gerhard of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (January 20 - April 11, 1862).
- HSH Prince Ernst Gunther of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (August 11, 1863 - February 21, 1921); later Duke of Schleswig-Holstein.
- HSH Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (April 8, 1866 - April 28, 1952); married Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia, a male-line great-grandson of Frederick William III of Prussia.
- HSH Princess Feodora Adelheid of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (July 3, 1874 - June 21, 1910).
A small island in Franz Josef Land, Adelaide Island (Остров Аделаиды), was named after Princess Adelheid by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition.
[edit] Ancestry
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[edit] References
- ^ "Princess Feodora of Leiningen", Wikipedia.org
- ^ Diesbach, Ghislain de (1967). Secrets of the Gotha. translated from the French by Margaret Crosland. London: Chapman & Hall. pp. 134–136.
- ^ "Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein", Wikipedia.org
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