Viktoria Luise of Prussia

Viktoria Luise Adelheid Mathilde Charlotte, Princess of Prussia

Named “Viktoria” after her grandmother, German Empress Victoria, and her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria of Great Britain, and “Luise” after Queen Luise of Prussia.

Daughter of Wilhelm II., German Emperor (1859-1941) and his first wife Auguste Victoria, Princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1858-1921)

Born: Marmorpalais, Potsdam 13. Sep 1892

Married: Berlin 24. May 1913 Ernst August, Prince of Hannover, Duke of Braunschweig (1887-1953)

Issue:

• Ernst August, Prince of Hannover (1914-1987) m. 1951 Ortrud, Princess of Schleswig-Holstein (1925-1980); m. 1981 Monika, Gräfin zu Solms-Laubach (1929)
• Georg Wilhelm, Prince of Hannover (1915-2006) m. 1946 Sophia, Princess of Greece and Denmark (1914-2001)
• Friederike, Princess of Hannover (1917-1981) m. 1938 Pavlos, King of the Hellenes (1901-1964)
• Christian, Prince of Hannover (1919-1981) m. 1963 (div. 1976) Mireille Dutry (1946)
• Welf Heinrich, Prince of Hannover (1923-1997) m. 1960 Sophie-Alexandra, Princess zu Isenburg und Büdingen (1937)

Died: Hannover 11. Dec 1980

Buried: Mausoleum of the Kings of Hannover, Burggarten, Hannover

  

  

Marlene A. Eilers ”Queen Victoria’s Descendants”, Rosvall Royal Books 1997; (Prussia) GHdA, Fürsten I, Vol XII 1984; (Hannover) GHdA, Fürsten I, Vol XII 1984 and Vol XVIII 2007