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Prince Frederick of the Netherlands Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau (full names: Willem Frederik Karel; 28 February 1797, in Berlin – 8 September 1881, in Wassenaar), was the second son of William I of the Netherlands and his wife, Wilhelmine of P ...

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Princess Louise of Prussia Princess Louise Marie Elisabeth of Prussia (; 3 December 1838 – 23 April 1923) was Grand Duchess of Baden from 1856 to 1907 as the wife of Grand Duke Frederick I. Princess Louise was the second child and only daughter of Wilhelm I, German ...

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Wassenaar Wassenaar (; population: in ) is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and Dorp (town), town located in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, on the western coast of the Netherlands. An affluent suburb of The ...

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Neuwied Neuwied () is a town in the north of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, capital of the District of Neuwied. Neuwied lies on the east bank of the Rhine, 12 km northwest of Koblenz, on the railway from Frankfurt am Main to Cologne. Th ...

Kingdom of Prussia The Kingdom of Prussia (german: Königreich Preußen, ) was a German kingdom that constituted the state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.Marriott, J. A. R., and Charles Grant Robertson. ''The Evolution of Prussia, the Making of an Empire''. ...

Princess Marie of the Netherlands ( nl, Prinses Wilhelmina Frederika Anna Elisabeth Marie der Nederlanden, Prinses van Oranje-Nassau; 5 June 184122 June 1910) was the fourth child and younger daughter of

and wife of William, 5th Prince of Wied. She was the mother of

William, Prince of Albania Prince Wilhelm of Wied (German: ''Wilhelm Friedrich Heinrich Prinz zu Wied'', 26 March 1876 – 18 April 1945), reigned briefly as sovereign of the Principality of Albania as Vilhelm I from 7 March to 3 September 1914, when he left for exile. H ...

. She was the last surviving grandchild of

William I of the Netherlands William I (Willem Frederik, Prince of Orange-Nassau; 24 August 1772 – 12 December 1843) was a Prince of Orange, the King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg. He was the son of the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, who went ...

Early life

Marie was born at

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, the fourth child and younger daughter of

(1797–1881) second son of

, and his wife,

(1808–1870), daughter of

Frederick William III of Prussia Frederick William III (german: Friedrich Wilhelm III.; 3 August 1770 – 7 June 1840) was King of Prussia from 16 November 1797 until his death in 1840. He was concurrently Elector of Brandenburg in the Holy Roman Empire until 6 August 1806, w ...

. Princess Marie was diagnosed with profound hearing problems at an early age. Like her sister Louise, she was considered intelligent - and very regal - but not attractive. Her marital considerations were also affected by the considerable fortune (enormous even by contemporary royal/imperial standards) that she would bring to any match. Her parents hoped to marry her to

Albert Edward, Prince of Wales Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria and ...

(later King Edward VII) but the Prince's mother,

Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previ ...

opposed the match.

Marriage and family

Marie married on 18 July 1871 in

, William, Prince of Wied (1845–1907), brother of

Queen Elisabeth of Romania Pauline Elisabeth Ottilie Luise of Wied (29 December 18432 March 1916) was the first queen of Romania as the wife of King Carol I from 15 March 1881 to 27 September 1914. She had been the princess consort of Romania since her marriage to then ...

and elder son of Hermann, Prince of Wied and his wife

Princess Marie of Nassau , house =Nassau-Weilburg , father =William, Duke of Nassau , mother =Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen , birth_date = , birth_place = Biebrich, Duchy of Nassau , death_date = , death_place =Neuwied, Duchy of Nassau P ...

. They had six children: *

Friedrich, Prince of Wied , house =Wied-Neuwied , father =William, Prince of Wied , mother =Princess Marie of the Netherlands , birth_date = , birth_place =Neuwied, Kingdom of Prussia , death_date = , death_place =Neuwied, Allied-occupied Germany } ...

(27 June 1872 – 18 June 1945); married Princess Pauline of Württemberg, had issue. * Prince Alexander of Wied (28 May 1874 – 15 January 1877) * Wilhelm, Prince of Albania (26 March 1876 – 18 April 1945); married Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg (1885–1936), had issue. * Prince Victor of Wied (7 December 1877 – 1 March 1946); married Countess Gisela of

Solms-Wildenfels Solms-Wildenfels was a minor County around Wildenfels in south-western Saxony, Germany. The House of Solms had its origins at Solms, Hesse. Solms-Wildenfels was a partition of Solms-Baruth. In 1741 it was partitioned between itself and Solms- ...

(1891–1976), had issue. * Princess Louise of Wied (24 October 1880 – 29 August 1965) * Princess Elisabeth of Wied (28 January 1883 – 14 November 1938)

Ancestry

Notes and sources

*The Royal House of Stuart, London, 1969, 1971, 1976, Addington, A. C., Reference: page 354. {{DEFAULTSORT:Marie Of The Netherlands, Princess 1841 births 1910 deaths House of Orange-Nassau House of Wied-Neuwied People from Wassenaar German princesses Princesses of Wied Princesses of Orange-Nassau