Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
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Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | |||||
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Princess Louis Charles of Prussia Princess Frederick William of Solms-Braunfels Queen consort of Hanover | |||||
Tenure | 20 June 1837 – 29 June 1841 | ||||
Born | 3 March 1778 Electorate of Hanover, Holy Roman Empire | ||||
Died | 29 June 1841 Kingdom of Hanover | (aged 63)||||
Burial | , Kingdom of Hanover | ||||
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Mecklenburg-Strelitz | |||||
Father | Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | ||||
Mother | Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt |
Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (
Frederica was born in the Altes Palais of
Early life
Frederica's mother died on 22 May 1782 after giving birth to her tenth child. Two years later (28 September 1784), her father remarried the younger sister of his deceased wife, Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, but this union ended just one year later, when Charlotte died of complications resulting from childbirth on 12 December 1785.
The twice-widowed Duke Charles considered himself unable to give his daughters proper rearing and education, so he sent Frederica and her elder sisters
First marriage
Frederica's father was anxious to arrange advantageous marriages for all his daughters, and used family connections to bring this about. Queen
The double engagement was celebrated in Darmstadt on 24 April 1793, only a few weeks after the sisters fortuitously met their future father-in-law at the theatre. On December 24, Duchess Louise and Crown Prince Frederick William were married in the Royal Palace of Berlin; two days later, on 26 December, Duchess Frederica and Prince Louis were also married at the same venue.[1]
Unlike her sister, Frederica did not enjoy a happy marriage. Although her husband died only three years after the wedding, Louis was said to have preferred the company of his mistresses and completely neglected his wife, or at least, that is her version; in response, she allegedly began an affair with her husband's uncle
In 1795, King Frederick William II appointed Louis as Chief of the Dragoons Regiment No.1, which was stationed in Schwedt. One year later, on 23 December 1796, Prince Louis died of diphtheria. It was three years almost to the day since their wedding. At this time, his youngest child, Frederica, was less than three months old, and his eldest son was hardly two years old. After Louis's death, his father provided Frederica with a suitable residence near Berlin, and a sufficient income, and she moved with her three children to Schönhausen Palace near Berlin.
In 1797, Frederica became unofficially engaged to her cousin
Second marriage
In 1798 Frederica became pregnant. The father was
Third marriage
In May 1813, during a visit to his uncle Duke Charles in
Queen Charlotte bitterly opposed the marriage, even though her future daughter-in-law was also her niece.[4] She refused to attend the wedding and advised her son to live outside England with his wife. Frederica never obtained the favour of the Queen, who died unreconciled with her in 1818. During her marriage to Ernest she gave birth three times, but only a son survived, who would eventually become King George V of Hanover.[1]
Queen of Hanover
On 20 June 1837 King
After a short illness, Queen Frederica of Hanover died in 1841 at Hanover.
Children
Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
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By Prince Louis Charles of Prussia (married 29 December 1793; he died 23 December 1796) | |||
Prince Frederick of Prussia | 30 October 1794 | 27 July 1863 | married, 1817, Princess Louise of Anhalt-Bernburg
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Prince Charles of Prussia | 26 September 1795 | 6 April 1798 | |
Princess Frederica of Prussia |
30 September 1796 | 1 January 1850 | married, 1818, Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau |
By Prince Frederick William of Solms-Braunfels (married 10 December 1798; he died 13 April 1814) | |||
Princess Sophia of Solms-Braunfels | 27 February 1799 | 20 October 1799 | |
Prince Frederick of Solms-Braunfels | 11 September 1800 | 14 September 1800 | |
Prince Wilhelm of Solms-Braunfels | 13 December 1801 | 12 September 1868 | married, 1831, Countess Maria Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau |
Princess Augusta of Solms-Braunfels | 25 July 1804 | 8 October 1865 | married, 1827, Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt |
Unnamed daughter | 1805 | stillborn | |
Prince Alexander of Solms-Braunfels | 12 March 1807 | 20 February 1867 | married, 1863, Baroness Louise of Landsberg-Velen; had issue |
Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels | 27 July 1812 | 13 November 1875 | married, 1845, Princess Sophie of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
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By Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (married 29 May 1815) | |||
Princess Frederica of Cumberland | 27 January 1817 | stillborn | |
Unnamed daughter | April 1818 | ||
George V of Hanover | 27 May 1819 | 12 June 1878 | married, 1843, Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg; had issue |
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