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Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse (1906–1937). He married Ernest's grand-niece, Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark , a sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , and had issue. The couple and two of their young sons were killed in a plane crash in 1937, leaving behind a daughter who also died two years later, while yet a child.
Louis was born at the Prinz-Karl-Palais in Darmstadt, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine in the German Confederation, the first son and child of Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine (23 April 1809 – 20 March 1877) and Princess Elisabeth of Prussia (18 June 1815 – 21 March 1885), granddaughter of King Frederick William II of Prussia.
Royal Standard of the Grand Duke of Hesse 1903–1918. This is a list of monarchs of Hesse (German: Hessen) during the history of Hesse on west-central Germany.These monarchs belonged to a dynasty collectively known as the House of Hesse and the House of Brabant, [1] originally the Reginar.
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, then Princess Louis of Battenberg, later Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven (5 April 1863 – 24 September 1950), was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Princess Alice (1843–1878) married Prince Louis of Hesse (1837–1892), later Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse, on 1 July 1862. They had 2 sons (one of which, "Frittie", Prince Friedrich of Hesse, was a haemophiliac and died from bleeding out after a fall out of his mother's bedroom window), 5 daughters (one of whom died of diphtheria) and 15 ...
The Electorate of Hesse (Hesse-Kassel) was annexed by Prussia in 1866, while the Grand Duchy of Hesse (Hesse-Darmstadt) remained a sovereign realm until the end of the German monarchies in 1918. Since 23 May 2013, the head of the house has been Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse .
Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse [35] 4. Prince Karl of Hesse and by Rhine [34] 9. Princess Wilhelmine of Baden [35] 2. Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse: 10. Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851) [36] 5. Princess Elizabeth of Prussia [34] 11. Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg [36] 1. Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine: 12. Ernest I, Duke of ...
Grand Duke of Hesse and by the Rhine 1830—1848: Victoria: Albert, Prince Consort: Prince Charles of Hesse and by the Rhine (1809–1877) Louis III (1806–1877) Grand Duke of Hesse and by the Rhine 1848—1877: Prince Alexander of Hesse and by the Rhine (1823–1888) Julia v. Hauke [a] (1825–1895) Countess, later Princess of Battenberg ...