Princess Antoinette | |
Princess Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe | |
Full Name: | German: Antoinette Anna Alexandra Marie Luise Agnes Elisabeth Auguste Friederike |
Issue: | Prince Leopold Prince Wilhelm |
House: | Ascania |
Father: | Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt |
Mother: | Princess Elisabeth of Hesse-Kassel |
Birth Date: | 3 March 1885 |
Birth Place: | Schloss Georgium, Dessau, Anhalt |
Death Place: | Dessau, East Germany |
Place Of Burial: | Ziebigk cemetery, Dessau |
Princess Antoinette of Anhalt (German: Antoinette Anna Alexandra Marie Luise Agnes Elisabeth Auguste Friederike; 3 March 1885 - 3 April 1963) was a Princess of Anhalt by birth. As the wife of Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe, she became a Princess of Schaumburg-Lippe by marriage.
Princess Antoinette was born on 3 March 1885 at Schloss Georgium near Dessau in Anhalt. Her parents were Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt and Princess Elisabeth of Hesse-Kassel (1861-1955).
Less than one year after the birth of his daughter, Leopold died unexpectedly in Cannes on 2 February 1886. Princess Elisabeth never remarried and survived her husband by almost 70 years. She died in Dessau on 7 June 1955.
Princess Antoinette married Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe as his second wife in Dessau on 26 May 1909. They had two sons:
Prince Wilhelm Friedrich died in 1938 at the age of 25, when his bomber aircraft crashed during military exercises at Neubrandenburg.[1]
Princess Antoinette died in Dessau, then in the German Democratic Republic, on 3 April 1963. She was buried at the Ziebigk cemetery in Dessau next to her mother.