Princess Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

Princess Adelaide Louise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (German: Adelheid Luise; 19 October 1889 – 11 June 1964) was a daughter of Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein and his wife Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.^[1]

She was the Princess consort of Solms-Baruth through her marriage to Friedrich, 3rd Prince of Solms-Baruth.^{[citation needed]}

Early life

Princess Adelaide was born on 19 October 1889 at Grünholz Manor in Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia as the fourth eldest daughter of Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderbug-Glücksburg and his wife Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.^{[citation needed]}

Adelaide's father was the eldest son of

Adelaide and Friedrich had five children.^[citation needed]

Later life

On 31 December 1920, Hereditary Prince Friedrich's father died, and Friedrich became head of the house of Solms-Baruth.

Prince Friedrich died on 12 September 1951 in

∞ Karl-Adolf, 10th Prince of Auersperg (great-grandson of Prince Adolf of Auersperg) on 6 October 1961 at Vienna, Austria

• • Princess Caroline Mathilde Adelheid Gobertina of Auersperg (born 24 May 1962)

• Countess Rosa Cecilie Karoline-Mathilde Irene Sibylla Anna of Solms-Baruth ( 15 May 1925 - Oct 2008)

∞ Neville Lewis on 3 November 1955 at Stellenbosch, South Africa, widowed

• • Caroline Isabelle Lewis (born 31 August 1956)
  • Frederick Henry Lewis (born 23 November 1961)

∞ Heinrich Weber on 9 October 1981 at Stellenbosch, South Africa

• Friedrich, 4th Prince of Solms-Baruth (22 December 1926 – 2006)

∞ Baroness Birgitta of Berchem-Königsfeld on 17 August 1963 at Dabib, South West Africa

• • Friedrich, 5th Prince of Solms-Baruth (born 27 November 1963)
  • Count Julian of Solms-Baruth (born 6 August 1965)

• Countess Caroline Mathilde of Solms-Baruth (15 April 1929 – 21 January 2016)

∞ Johann van Steenderen on 12 May 1963

Ancestry

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