germanaustriannoblesandroyals: Women of the House of Oldenburg (02/?) & of German Principali

germanaustriannoblesandroyals:Women of the House of Oldenburg (02/?) & of German Principalities (07/?): Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Duchess of Schleswig-HolsteinAdelheid was born as the fifth of six children and second of three daughters to Ernst, The Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and his wife Princess Feodora of Leiningen. Adelheid’s maternal grandmother was Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, better known as The Duchess of Kent and mother of Queen Victoria.Her being a niece of the British queen made her an interesting marriage candidate for Napoleon III. after he was denied the hand of Princess Carola of Vasa-Holstein-Gottrop, the daughter of the former crown prince of Sweden at the time. Napoleon hoped to strengthen the bond between Britain and France in marrying Adelheid. The British court maintained a strict silence toward the Hohenlohes during the marriage negotiations, lest the Queen seem either eager for or repulsed by the prospect of Napoléon as a nephew-in-law. Adelheid’s parents interpreted this silence as disapproval from their British relatives and stopped the marriage negotiations to the dismay of 16-year-old Adelheid. Four years later in 1856, Adelheid married Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, and by that became a member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, a branch of the House of Schleswig-Holstein which itself is a branch of the major House of Oldenburg. The House of Oldenburg ruled through its branches in most of Northern Europe. The current Queen of Denmark and The King of Norway belong to it, as well as Prince Philip and his descendants. Adelheid’s and Frederick’s marriage was, according to contemporaries, a happy one and resulted in 7 children. Among them was also the last German Empress Victoria Augusta.In 1867, Otto von Bismarck annexed the dukedomes as the province Schleswig-Holstein for the Kingdom of Prussia. Adelheid and her family moved to Primkenau (today Przemków). Her husband died in 1880. She survived him by 20 years. The Adelheid Islands in the Russian archipel of Franz Josef Land are named after her.// Ellen Evans as Princess Heidi in itv’s Victoria -- source link

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