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Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine GCB (Alexander Ludwig Georg Friedrich Emil; 15 July 1823 – 15 December 1888), was the third son and fourth child of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Wilhelmine of Baden. He was a brother of Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna, wife of Tsar Alexander II of Russia.
After their mother's death, Marie and Alexander moved permanently to their father's court in Darmstadt. The siblings would remain very close throughout their lives. [5] She became close to her two elder brothers Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Prince Karl of Hesse.
Her mother died of shock shortly afterwards, and their children were made wards of the Emperor. [citation needed] Hauke served as lady-in-waiting to Marie of Hesse, wife of the future Emperor Alexander II and a sister of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine. She met Prince Alexander while performing her duties at court in Saint Petersburg ...
Marie was the eldest child and only daughter of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (1823–1888), founder of the House of Battenberg and his morganatic wife, the Countess Julia Hauke (1825–1895), daughter of the Polish Count John Maurice Hauke.
Prince Alexander (1823–1888) was the third son of Grand Duke Louis II of Hesse and by Rhine and of Wilhelmina of Baden, yet it was openly rumoured that his biological father was actually Baron Augustus von Senarclens-Grancy, his mother's chamberlain. [1] Prince Alexander's spouse, Julia von Hauke (1825–1895), was a mere countess, the ...
Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine: 4. Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine: 9. Princess Wilhelmine of Baden: 2. Prince Henry of Battenberg: 10. Count John Maurice Hauke: 5. Julia, Princess of Battenberg: 11. Sophie Lafontaine: 1. Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke: 12. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: 6.
After her husband ascended the Russian throne in 1796, Maria Feodorovna had a considerable and beneficial influence during his four-year reign. On the night of Paul I's assassination (23 March [O.S. 11 March] 1801), she thought to imitate her mother-in-law's example and claim the throne, but her son, the future Emperor Alexander I, dissuaded her.
Prince Louis photographed by Franz Backofen, c. 1865. Louis Alexander of Battenberg was born in Graz, Styria, on 24 May 1854, [3] the eldest son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine by his morganatic marriage to Countess Julia von Hauke.