Grand Duches of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach from 1853 to 1897
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 . She was heiress presumptive to her niece, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands , for seven years, from the death of her brother until her own death.
Marriage and children
Princess Sophie married her first cousin, Charles Alexander, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , at Kneuterdijk Palace in The Hague on 8 October 1842. Their mothers were sisters, and daughters of Tsar Paul I of Russia .
They had four children:
Karl August, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. Weimar, 31 July 1844 – d. Cap Martin, France, 20 November 1894), who married Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach .
Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. Weimar, 20 January 1849 – d. Trebschen, 6 May 1922), who married Prince Heinrich VII Reuss .
Maria Anna Sophia Elisabeth Bernhardine Ida Auguste Helene of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. Weimar, 29 March 1851 – d. Weimar, 26 April 1859)
Princess Elisabeth Sybille of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. Weimar, 28 February 1854 – d. Wiligrad, 10 July 1908), who married Duke Johann Albrecht of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .
Catherine Radziwill , a contemporary of Sophie's, commented that,
"...[Sophie] was very different from her husband, and, though extremely ugly, was a most imposing Princess. She was clever, too, and upheld the reputation of the Weimar family. She was a Princess of the Netherlands by birth...and kept and maintained at her court the traditions in which she had been reared. Notwithstanding her want of beauty, moreover, she presented a splendid figure, being always magnificently dressed and covered with wonderful jewels, among which shone a parure of rubies and diamonds that were supposed to be the finest of their kind in Europe".[ 1]
Ancestry
Ancestors of Princess Sophie of the Netherlands
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Generations are numbered by descent from
William I , the first king of the Netherlands.
1st generation 2nd generation 3rd generation 4th generation 5th generation 6th generation 7th generation 1 also Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
2 also Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld
3 title granted by Royal Decree to descendants of Princess Irene
Generations are numbered from the ascension of
Karl August as Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in 1809 and later
Grand Duke in 1815
1st generation 2nd generation 3rd generation 5th generation 7th generation
1 recognized as a princess by marriage in the United Kingdom
2 also a Princess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach by birth
International National People Other