Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt was born on 10 June 1898 as the daughter of the future Eduard, Duke of Anhalt and Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg. She grew up mainly in Dessau with her three surviving siblings. Marie-Auguste married Prince Joachim of Prussia, the youngest son of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, on 11 March [read more]
Read part one here. Margaret’s husband and her elder sons took up arms in the name of the Fatherland. Her husband was appointed to command the 81st Infantry Regiment. He was injured in September 1914 in Belgium from grenade fragments, and he contracted blood poisoning. Although he survived his injuries, he was no longer fit [read more]
Princess Margaret of Prussia was born on 22 April 1872 as the daughter of the future Frederick III, German Emperor and Victoria, Princess Royal. Her mother wrote to her grandmother Queen Victoria after her birth, “You may imagine how disappointed I was to have another little girl – if it had been a boy I [read more]
Read part one here. In 1883, it was decided that her husband should go to India and that she should accompany him – leaving their children behind. They had no idea how long their stay was going to be, but Louise Margaret knew it was the sacrifice a soldier’s wife had to make. The children [read more]
Louise Margaret of Prussia was born on 25 July 1860 at the Marble Palace in Potsdam as the daughter of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia and Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau. Her father was a nephew of William I, German Emperor and a double cousin of Frederick III, German Emperor, who was also the husband [read more]
The Kingdom of Prussia came into being in 1701 in return for an alliance against France in the War of the Spanish Succession. Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia became the first King in Prussia in 1701 and crowned himself King Frederick I on 18 January 1701 in Königsberg. Frederick was married three times. His first wife [read more]
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