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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.
The Battenberg family is a non-dynastic cadet branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, which ruled the Grand Duchy of Hesse until 1918. The first member was Countess Julia von Hauke, whose brother-in-law Grand Duke Louis III of Hesse created her Countess of Battenberg in 1851, along with the style of Illustrious Highness (H.Ill.H.), at the time of her morganatic marriage to Grand Duke Louis's ...
Julia, Princess of Battenberg, previously Countess Julia von Hauke and Countess of Battenberg (born Julia Therese Salomea Hauke; 24 November [O.S. 12 November] 1825 – 19 September 1895), was the wife of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, the third son of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse.
Death Notes Prince Ludwig Ernst Andreas of Hesse and by Rhine: 25 October 1931: 16 November 1937: Killed in air accident Prince Alexander Georg Karl Heinrich of Hesse and by Rhine: 14 April 1933: 16 November 1937: Killed in air accident Princess Johanna Marina Eleonore of Hesse and by Rhine: 20 September 1936: 14 June 1939: Died from meningitis ...
Men who had haemophilia in order of death # Name Death Relation to Queen Victoria 1: Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine: 29 May 1873 (aged 2) grandson 2: Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany: 28 March 1884 (aged 30) son 3: Prince Henry of Prussia: 26 February 1904 (aged 4) great-grandson 4: Tsarevich Alexei of Russia
With the death of the childless Prince Louis in 1968, the male line of the Hesse and by Rhine became extinct. [citation needed] The crash and its effect on Cecilie's younger brother, Philip, were featured in season 2 of the Netflix series, The Crown. However, this fictionalised version wrongly implied that Philip was to blame for Cecilie taking ...
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. Countess Julia Hauke: 11. Sophie Lafontaine: 1. Lord Leopold Mountbatten: 12. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: 6. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: 13.
Alexander was the second son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine by the latter's morganatic marriage with Countess Julia von Hauke.The Countess and her descendants gained the title of Princess of Battenberg (derived from an old residence of the Grand Dukes of Hesse) and the style Durchlaucht ("Serene Highness") in 1858.