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Ernest Louis was the elder son 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. He was named Louis after his father.
Eleonore and Ernest Louis had two sons: Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1906–1937), who married Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark (sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), and had issue. Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (1908–1968). Married Hon. Margaret Campbell Geddes, daughter of Lord Geddes, no
Victoria became Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, Ernest having ascended the throne in 1892. [15] Together Victoria and Ernst had two children, a daughter, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, who they nicknamed Ella, born on 11 March 1895, and a stillborn son, born on 25 May 1900. [citation needed] Victoria and Ernest proved incompatible.
Prince Ernest Louis became Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, upon his father's death in March 1892. He married his first cousin, Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1876-1936), in April 1894, and had one daughter, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse who died of typhoid fever, aged 8. The couple were divorced on 21 December 1901.
Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine: 4. Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine: 9. Princess Elisabeth of Prussia: 2. Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine: 10. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: 5. Princess Alice of the United Kingdom: 11. Victoria of the United Kingdom: 1. Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine: 12.
Princess Elizabeth, the third daughter of Queen Charlotte and King George, married Prince Frederick of Hesse-Homburg in 1817 at 47 years of age. She had no children. Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine, kneeling at left, with her grandmother Queen Victoria and, from left to right, her sister Elisabeth, brother Ernest Louis, sister Victoria and, sitting, her sister Alix in February 1879, two months after the deaths of her mother and sister Marie
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.