Baron Luitbert Alexander George Lionel Alphons von Pawel-Rammingen, (German: ''Luitbert Alexander Georg Lionel Alfons Freiherr von Pawel-Rammingen''; 27 July 1843 – 20 November 1932) was a German nobleman who became a naturalised British subject in 1880 when he married

Princess Frederica of Hanover Princess Frederica of Hanover (Friederike Sophie Marie Henriette Amelie Therese; 9 January 1848 – 16 October 1926) was a member of the House of Hanover. After her marriage, she lived mostly in England, where she was a prominent member of ...

Life

Pawel-Rammingen was born on 27 July 1843,"Pawel-Rammingen, Baron Luitbert Alexander George Lionel Alphons"
''Who Was Who'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007). Retrieved 13 December 2017. the eldest son of Karl Julius August Plato Emil, Baron von Pawel-Rammingen (1807–1886) and his wife, Baroness Luitgarde von Friesen (1819-1901): he had an elder sister, Anna (1842-1920) who married in 1862 to

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Oswald von Coburg (1822-1904), the son of Ludwig Frederick Emil Freiherr von Coburg (1779-1827), himself an illegitimate son of Prince Ludwig Karl Friedrich of

Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld () was one of the Ernestine duchies, Saxon Duchies held by the Ernestine line of the House of Wettin. Established in 1699, the Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield line lasted until the reshuffle of the Ernestine territories that occurred f ...

(1755-1806). Alphons also had a younger brother, Baron Paul Julius August Plato Sylvester Albert (b. 1851; known commonly as Albert), who was married to a Hungarian noblewoman, Baroness Gizella Babárczy de Babárcz (1852-1879) and had issue.Marquis de Ruvigny
''The Nobilies of Europe''
(London, 1909), p. 18. On 24 April 1880, Pawel-Rammingen married Princess Frederica Sophia Maria of

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, daughter of King

George V of Hanover George V (Georg Friedrich Alexander Karl Ernst August; 27 May 1819 – 12 June 1878) was the last King of Hanover, reigning from 18 November 1851 to 20 September 1866. The only child of King Ernest Augustus and Queen Frederica, he succeeded ...

St George's Chapel, Windsor St George's Chapel, formally titled The King's Free Chapel of the College of St George, Windsor Castle, at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is a Royal Peculiar (a church und ...

; he became a naturalised British Subject by Act of Parliament on 19 March 1880 (she was also a British princess). In the same year, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the

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(KCB) and in 1897,

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also appointed him a Knight Commander of the

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(KCVO). He was also appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of Hanover (KCH). In the United Kingdom, he was Honorary Colonel of the 6th Battalion of the

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. Alfons and Frederica had one daughter who was born and died at

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, where the couple had grace-and-favour apartment: * Baroness Victoria Georgina Beatrice Maud Anne von Pawel-Rammingen (7 March 1881 – 27 March 1881). She was buried in the Albert Memorial Chapel in

St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle St George's Chapel, formally titled The King's Free Chapel of the College of St George, Windsor Castle, at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is a Royal peculiar, Royal Peculia ...

."Royal Funeral at Windsor", ''The Times'' ( 1 April 1881): 10.

Death

He became a widower in 1926, and died in

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on 20 November 1932, at the age of 89, outliving his spouse for 6 years. He was buried in the Du Sabaou cemetery, Biarritz,

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, while his wife, Princess Frederica of Hanover, was buried alongside their daughter Victoria, in the Royal Vault, St.George's Chapel,

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References

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