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The Grand Ducal Family of Hesse in the 1840s. Prince Charles, Princess Elisabeth and their children, Prince Louis and Prince Heinrich are to the far left. In December 1835 at Fischbach Castle in Silesia, Prince Charles was engaged to his second cousin Princess Elisabeth of Prussia. The engagement was conceived by Charles' mother, who was ...
He was the second son of Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Elisabeth of Prussia and a younger brother of the later Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. Heinrich studied in Göttingen and Giessen and joined the Hessian army as a lieutenant in 1854.
Prince Charles' mother, Princess Mary of Great Britain Charles was born in Kassel on 19 December 1744 as the second surviving son of Hesse-Kassel's then hereditary prince, the future Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and his first wife Princess Mary of Great Britain.
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.
Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (1908–1968), who married Margaret Campbell Geddes, daughter of Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes; no issue. Louis adopted Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse as his heir, thereby uniting the two lines of the Hesse family.
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 ...
Prince Karl Adolf Andreas Prinz von Hesse (German: Karl Adolf Andreas Prinz Von Hessen; 26 March 1937 – 23 March 2022) was a member of the defunct German noble House of Hesse-Kassel. He was a first cousin of King Charles III of the United Kingdom through his uncle Prince Philip .
Margaret, Princess of Hesse and by Rhine (born Margaret Campbell Geddes; 18 March 1913 – 26 January 1997) was the wife of Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine, the last prince of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt. Born in Ireland, she became a noted art patron in her adopted homeland of Germany. [1]