#princess margarete of saxe-altenburg

[loiladadiani]

Grand Duchesses at the Coronation of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna

Nicholas II and his consort Empress Alexandra, were crowned on Tuesday, 14 May (O.S., 26 May N.S.) 1896, in Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin. The magnificence of the occasion was never again seen in Russia. The Grand Duchesses were in full regalia. Here are two great photographs of them.

Above:

Sitting: Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna (who had been present at the coronation of Alexander III); sitting on the floor at her knees is Princess Olga of Wurttenberg; sitting next to Alexandra Iosifovna is Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught

Back Row Standing from Let to Right: Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna, Grand Duchess Anastasia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna (the elder), Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna, and Princess Elena of Saxe-Altenburg

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In the center of this group, is Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna, (daughter of Tzar Alexander II, wife of Queen Victoria's second son Alfred, Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, who is standing behind her.)

On the right side of Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna, is her daughter Victoria Melita, Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Sitting to the left of her mother is the Crowned Princess of Romania, Marie (same name as her mother; known by the family as Missy). Her husband the Crowned Prince of Romania, Ferdinand, is standing slightly to the side, behind Missy.

Next to Ferdinand of Romania is Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and By Rhine, husband of Victoria Melita at the time and brother of the Empress being crowned, Alexandra Feodorovna. To the right of Victoria Melita is her brother, Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha who died at age twenty-four.

[sammygems]

I'm gonna add. Anon, basically think of like, Lady Margaret Beaufort. She was Henry VII's mother, but she was never queen herself, or married to a king, but she was the mother of a king, making her "the King's Mother". While these 2 were never actually referred to as "the King's Mother" as like, a title, Joan of Kent and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, it could also apply to them, as their husbands died before becoming king.

Dowager Queens are former Queen consorts who's husbands have died, but they don't have to be the mother of the new monarch.

What's the difference between the titled 'Dowager Queen' and 'My Lady, the King's Mother'? Like how differently would those people have been treated?

Dowager Queen is a woman who was married to a previous King, she inherits the title whether her child is the next monarch or not. My Lady, the King's Mother is a woman who has never been Queen but is the mother of the monarch

[princessvictoriamelita]

Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna's younger sister who died young.

Princess Margarete Marie Agnes Adelaide Karoline Fredericka of Saxe-Altenburg (1867-1882) in 1880.

Margarete's elder sister Marie Anne, Princess consort of Schaumburg-Lippe named her eldest daughter who was born in 1896 after her late sister. Sadly this child died a day after her first birthday in 1897.

Princess consort Marie Anne of Schaumburg-Lippe holding her newborn daughter Princess Margarete who was born on January 21, 1896.

[annalaurendet70]

The Princesses of Saxe-Altenburg ~ Margaret,Maria Anna and Elisabeth ~ three of the daughters of Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg (1829–1907) and his wife, Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen (1843–1919).

Prince Moritz's grandmother was the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna Romanova of Russia,thus his great grandfather was Tsar Paul l of Russia.

The family comes from the House of Wettin is a dynasty of German counts, dukes, prince-electors and kings that once ruled territories in the present-day German states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. The Dynasty is one of the oldest in Europe, and its origins can be traced back to the town of Wettin, Saxony-Anhalt.

Elisabeth the second child and daughter married Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov of Russia and had nine children together.

[princessvictoriamelita]

Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, 1860s.

She was the only daughter of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg

Among her first cousins were Grand Duchess Elisabeth of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Princess Louise Margaret Duchess of Albany and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna.

[princessvictoriamelita]

Princesses Olga and Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, c. 1890.

Nieces of Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught.

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Agnes, Duchess consort of Saxe-Altenburg née Anhalt-Dessau, 1880s.

Maternal aunt of Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught.

On 28 April 1853, Agnes married Ernst of Saxe-Altenburg.

They had one daughter, Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg.

As their only son died as an infant, the duchy would be inherited by their nephew Ernst upon Ernst I's death in 1908.

[princessvictoriamelita]

Princess Marie of Prussia (1855-1888) and Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught (1860-1917) sitting on the steps by a double door, with a rug on the steps. This may be at Bagshot Park, the newly-rebuilt house acquired by the Duke of Connaught, 1880.

Princess Marie of Prussia was first married to Prince Henry of the Netherlands but he died of measles six months later. She then married Prince Albert of Saxe-Altenburg in 1885 and died of puerperal fever ('childbed fever') after the birth of her second child in 1888.

Photograph by Hills & Saunders.

Source: Royal Collection