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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
| full name = {{lang-de|Marie Melita Leopoldine Viktoria Feodora Alexandra Sophie}}
| succession = [[List of consorts of Schleswig and Holstein|Duchess consort of Schleswig-Holstein]]
| reign = 21 January 1934 – 10 February 1965
| reign-type = Tenure
| house = [[Hohenlohe-Langenburg]]
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein]]|1916|1965|end=died}}
| issue = [[Hans Albrecht, Hereditary Prince of Schleswig-Holstein]]<br>Prince Wilhelm Alfred<br>[[Peter, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein]]<br>[[Princess Marie Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein|Princess Marie Alexandra, Mrs. Barton-Miller]]
| image = MarieHohenlohe-Langenburg1.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|1|18|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Langenburg]], [[Hohenlohe-Langenburg]], [[Kingdom of Württemberg]], [[German Empire]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1967|11|8|1899|1|18|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Munich]], [[Bavaria]], [[West Germany]]
| father = [[Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg]]
| mother = [[Alexandra of Edinburgh]]
}}


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'''Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg''' (Marie Melita Leopoldine Viktoria Feodora Alexandra Sophie; 18 January 1899 – 8 November 1967) was [[Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg|Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein]] as the wife of [[Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein]]. She was the eldest daughter of [[Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg]] and his wife [[Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh]].<ref name="Tatler_1905">{{cite news |title=The children of Prince Ernest of Hohenlohe-Langenburg |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001852/19050104/018/0018 |access-date=28 February 2023 |work=The Tatler |date=4 January 1905}}</ref> Her grandson [[Christoph, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein]] was the head of the [[House of Glücksburg|House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg]].
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==Marriage and issue==
Marie Melita married her second cousin, [[Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein|Wilhelm Friedrich, Hereditary Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg]], the only son of [[Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein]] and his wife [[Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg]], on 5 February 1916 at [[Coburg]]. Wilhelm Friedrich and Marie Melita had four children:

*[[Hans Albrecht, Hereditary Prince of Schleswig-Holstein|''Hans Albrecht'', Hereditary Prince of Schleswig-Holstein]] (12 May 1917 – 10 August 1944); unmarried, no issue
*Prince ''Wilhelm Alfred'' Ferdinand of [[Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg]] (24 September 1919 – 17 June 1926)
*[[Peter, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein|Friedrich Ernst ''Peter'', Duke of Schleswig-Holstein]] (30 April 1922 – 30 September 1980); married with [[Princess Marie Alix of Schaumburg-Lippe]], had issue
*[[Princess Marie Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein]] (9 July 1927 – 14 December 2000); married, on 22 July 1970 at [[:de:Gut Grünholz|Grünholz]], [[Schleswig-Holstein]], [[Germany]], Douglas Barton-Miller (born 27 December 1929); no issue.

==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Marie Melita, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein'''
|2= 2. [[Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg]]
|3= 3. [[Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh]]
|4= 4. [[Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg]]
|5= 5. [[Princess Leopoldine of Baden]]
|6= 6. [[Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]
|7= 7. [[Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia]]
|8= 8. [[Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg]]
|9= 9. [[Princess Feodora of Leiningen]]
|10= 10. [[Prince William of Baden]]
|11= 11. [[Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg|Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg]]
|12= 12. [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]
|13= 13. [[Victoria of the United Kingdom]]
|14= 14. [[Alexander II of Russia]]
|15= 15. [[Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse)|Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine]]
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}}

==References==
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{{Princesses of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg by marriage}}
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[[Category:1899 births]]
[[Category:1967 deaths]]
[[Category:House of Hohenlohe-Langenburg|Marie Melita]]
[[Category:Princesses of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg|Marie Melita]]
[[Category:Princesses of Hohenlohe-Langenburg|Marie Melita]]
[[Category:People from Langenburg]]

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