#OnThisDay in 1864 Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg died. She was born in 1802 as the daughter of Duke Louis of Württemberg and Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg. Elisabeth married Prince William of Baden on 16 October 1830. They had four children, though not all lived to adulthood.
#OnThisDay in 1905 Princess Natalia Pavlovna Paley was born as the daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia and his morganatic second wife, Olga Valerianovna Karnovich. During the Russian Revolution, they managed to escape to Finland before eventually settling in France. In 1927, she married Lucien Lelong. They divorced in 1937 and that same year, she married John C. Wilson and settled in the US.
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#OnThisDay in 1793 Henriette Amalie of Anhalt-Dessau died. She was born in 1720 as the daughter of Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau and Anna Louise Föhse. She never married but may have had an illegitimate child.
#OnThisDay in 1851 Seniha Sultan was born as the daughter of Sultan Abdulmejid I of the Ottoman Empire and Nalandil Hanım. On 10 February 1877, she married Asaf Mahmud Celaleddin Pasha and they had two sons together. She died on 15 September 1931.
#OnThisDay in 1946 Infanta María de la Paz of Spain died. She was born in 1862 as the daughter of Francisco, Duke of Cádiz and Queen Isabella II of Spain. On 2 April 1883, she married Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria and they had three children together.