Consort: | yes |
Alexandra of Anhalt | |
Princess of Schwarzburg | |
Full Name: | Alexandra Therese Marie |
Spouse: | Sizzo, Prince of Schwarzburg |
House: | Ascania |
Father: | Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt |
Mother: | Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg |
Birth Date: | 4 April 1868 |
Death Place: | Schwetzingen |
Princess Alexandra Therese Marie of Anhalt (4 April 1868 - 26 August 1958) was a Princess of Anhalt and member of the House of Ascania by birth. As the wife of Sizzo, Prince of Schwarzburg, she was a Princess of Schwarzburg by marriage.
Princess Alexandra was born on 4 April 1868 in Dessau as the youngest child of Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt and Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg.
In the late 1880s false rumours of an engagement between Prince Albert Victor of Wales and Princess Alexandra emerged when in fact the couple had never even met.[1]
In Dessau on 25 January 1897 Princess Alexandra was married to Prince Sizzo of Schwarzburg.
After their marriage the couple lived in Großharthau.[2]
Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
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Princess Marie Antoinette of Schwarzburg | 7 February 1898 | 4 November 1984 | married Friedrich Magnus V, Count of Solms-Wildenfels, issue |
Princess Irene of Schwarzburg | 27 May 1899 | 28 February 1939 | |
Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg | 5 March 1901 | 9 November 1971 | married Princess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach |