Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe should not be confused with Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe.
Princess Adelaide | |
Succession: | Duchess consort of Saxe-Altenburg |
Consort: | yes |
Reign: | 7 February 1908 – 13 November 1918 |
Issue: | Charlotte, Princess Sigismund of Prussia Georg Moritz, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Altenburg Princess Elisabeth Prince Frederick |
Full Name: | German: Friederike Adelheid Marie Luise Hilda Eugenie zu Schaumburg-Lippe |
House: | Lippe |
Father: | Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe |
Mother: | Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau |
Birth Date: | 22 September 1875 |
Birth Place: | Ratibořice, Kingdom of Bohemia |
Death Place: | Ballenstedt, East Germany |
Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe (German: Prinzessin Friederike Adelheid Marie Luise Hilda Eugenie zu Schaumburg-Lippe; 22 September 187527 January 1971) was daughter of Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe and consort of the last reigning Duke of Saxe-Altenburg Ernst II.
Adelaide was born at Ratiboritz, Kingdom of Bohemia (now Ratibořice), seventh child and third daughter of Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe (1834–1906), (son of George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe and Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont) and his wife, Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau (1837–1902), (daughter of Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau and Princess Marie Luise Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel). In 1891, her sister Charlotte became Queen Consort of William II of Württemberg.
Adelaide married 17 February 1898 at Bückeburg to Prince Ernst of Saxe-Altenburg (1871–1955), son of Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg, and his wife, Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen. The marriage ended in divorce on 17 January 1920.
They had four children:
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