Marie of Saxe-Altenburg

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Marie of Saxe-Altenburg
Queen consort of Hanover
Tenure	18 November 1851 – 20 September 1866
Born	Princess Marie of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1818-04-14)14 April 1818 Hildburghausen, Saxe-Hildburghausen
Died	9 January 1907(1907-01-09) (aged 88) Gmunden, Austria-Hungary
Burial	19 January 1907 Gmunden, Austria-Hungary
Spouse	George V of Hanover ​ ​ (m. 1843; died 1878)​
Issue	Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover Princess Frederica, Baroness von Pawel-Rammingen Princess Marie of Hanover
Names Alexandrina Mary Wilhelmina Catherine Charlotte Theresa Henrietta Louise Pauline Elizabeth Frederica Georgina
Saxe-Altenburg
Father	Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
Mother	Duchess Amelia of Württemberg

Marie of Saxe-Altenburg (Alexandrina Mary Wilhelmina Catherine Charlotte Theresa Henrietta Louise Pauline Elizabeth Frederica Georgina;

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Early life

Marie was born at

In 1826, the family moved to Altenburg as a result of a transfer of territories among the various branches of the Ernestine Wettins, and Marie took the title Princess of Saxe-Altenburg in place of the previous.

Marriage

Marie married, on 18 February 1843, at Hanover, George, Crown Prince of Hanover. They had three children: Prince Ernest Augustus, Princess Frederica, and Princess Marie.^[2]

Queen of Hanover

The Crown Prince, blind since his youth, and his wife became King and Queen of Hanover upon the death of his father, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, on 18 November 1851.

Between 1858 and 1867 George V had Marienburg Castle built as a birthday present to his wife, named after her. However, he was expelled from his kingdom in 1866 as a result of his support for Austria in the Austro-Prussian War, and on 20 September 1866, the Kingdom was annexed by Prussia. Nevertheless, George never abdicated; he emigrated to Vienna, Austria, while Marie and her daughters remained at Herrenhausen Palace, then moving to Marienburg Castle, which was still under construction, in September 1867. Marie succeeded in having the Hanoverian crown jewels and other precious items smuggled abroad, before finally leaving for Austria herself. There, the family moved into a villa in Gmunden near Salzburg, which they rented and later acquired.

On 18 September 1872, Queen Marie was godmother to

's third daughter and fifth child.

George V. died in 1878 on a travel in Paris where he had attempted to re-establish his

. Queen Marie died, some twenty-eight years after her husband, on 9 January 1907, in The Queen's Villa (Königinvilla) at Gmunden, where she was later buried in a mausoleum that her eldest son had built next to his residence, Cumberland Castle.

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  Marienburg Castle
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  The Queen's Villa in Gmunden
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  Mausoleum of Queen Marie in Gmunden

Issue

Name	Birth	Death	Notes
Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover	21 September 1845	14 November 1923	Ernest Augustus William Adolphus George Frederick; born at Hanover, married Princess Thyra of Denmark; had issue
Princess Frederica of Hanover	9 January 1848	16 October 1926	born at Hanover, died at Alfons, Baron von Pawel-Rammingen ; had issue
Princess Marie of Hanover	3 December 1849	4 June 1904	Marie Ernestine Josephine Adolphine Henrietta Theresa Elizabeth Alexandrina; born at Hanover, died unmarried at Gmunden

Ancestry

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Marie of Saxe-Altenburg House of Saxe-Altenburg Cadet branch of the House of Wettin Born: 14 April 1818 Died: 9 January 1907
Hanoverian royalty
Preceded by Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz	Queen consort of Hanover 18 November 1851 – 20 September 1866	Succeeded by Kingdom abolished
Titles in pretence
Preceded by Herself as queen consort	— TITULAR — Queen consort of Hanover 20 September 1866 – 12 June 1878	Succeeded by Thyra of Denmark