Princess Victoria Margaret of Prussia (Victoria Margaret Elizabeth Marie Ulrike; 17 April 1890 – 9 September 1923) was a member of the

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Early life

She was born the second child and only daughter of

Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (; 14 November 1865 – 13 September 1931) was a son of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia and Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau, married in 1854. Family On 24 June 1889, he married in Berlin Princ ...

and his wife,

Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (German: Feodora Luise Sophie Adelheid Henriette Amalie; 8 April 1866 – 28 April 1952) was a daughter of Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein and Princess Adelheid of H ...

. She married Prince Heinrich XXXIII Reuss of Köstritz and had two children.

Biography

Family and lineage

Victoria's paternal grandparents were Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia and

Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau (14 September 1837, Dessau – 12 May 1906, Friedrichroda) was a princess from the House of Ascania. She was the third child of Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt and Princess Frederica of Prussia. Family Maria Anna ...

. Her maternal grandparents were

Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein and of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (; ; 6 July 1829 – 14 January 1880) was the German pretender to the throne of second duke of Schleswig-Holstein from 1863, although in reality Prussia to ...

and

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. Victoria had three siblings: Prince Friedrich Sigismund of Prussia, Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, and Prince Friedrich Leopold of

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(1895-1959). Through her mother, Victoria was a niece of Empress Augusta Victoria, wife of

Wilhelm II, German Emperor Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty ...

Marriage

On 17 May 1913, she married Prince Heinrich XXXIII Reuss of Köstritz, son of

Heinrich VII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz Heinrich VII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz (; 14 July 1825 – 2 May 1906) was a German diplomat. Early life Prince Heinrich VII Principality of Reuss-Gera, Reuss of Köstritz was born at Klipphausen on 14 July 1825. He was the fifth child a ...

and Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach. By birth, he was member of the

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, one of the oldest reigning houses in Europe. He was a grandson of

Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Charles Alexander (Karl Alexander August Johann; 24 June 1818 – 5 January 1901) was the ruler of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach as its grand duke from 1853 until his death. Biography Born in Weimar, Karl Alexander was the second but eldest surviving ...

and his wife,

Princess Sophie of the Netherlands Princess Sophie of the Netherlands (Wilhelmine Marie Sophie Louise; 8 April 1824 – 23 March 1897) was the only daughter and last surviving child of King William II of the Netherlands and of his wife Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna of Russia ...

. Princess Victoria Margaret was led down the aisle on the arm of her uncle Emperor Wilhelm. They had two children: *Princess Marie Luise Reuss of Köstritz (9 January 1915 - 17 June 1985) she married Erich Theisen on 7 June 1941 and they were divorced in 1946. They have one daughter. She remarried Dr. Alexander Bodey on 27 March 1954 and they were divorced on 13 January 1956. **Viktoria Sibylle Theisen (31 December 1942) she married Wolfgang Schafer on 22 September 1969. They have three children: ***Anna Katharina Schafer (5 February 1974) ***Moritz Fabian Schafer (29 December 1976) ***Marie Caroline Schafer (17 January 1979) * Prince Heinrich II Reuss of Köstritz (24 November 1916 - 24 December 1993) The marriage was dissolved by divorce in 1922.

Death

Princess Victoria Margaret died the following year, on 9 September 1923 at Schloss Klein-Glienicke of complications of influenza. Her body was buried at

Glienicke Palace Glienicke Palace () is a historic palace located on the peninsula of Berlin-Wannsee in Germany. It was designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel around 1825 for Prince Carl of Prussia. Since 1990, Glienicke Palace and the park have been part of the ...

.http://www.royaltyguide.nl/families/fam-H/hohenzollern/hhzkings2.htm After her death, her former husband, Prince Heinrich XXXIII married again to the widowed

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Allene Tew Burchard in 1929.

Ancestry

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