Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau

Caroline Princess of Orange -Nassau -Diez ( born February 28, 1743 in Leeuwarden, † May 6, 1787 in Kirchheimbolanden ) was a nobleman.

Life

Caroline was a daughter of William IV and Anna of Hannover (1709-1759), daughter of George II It was described as intelligent, woken woman who was very musical, sang and played piano. 1765 played the young Mozart her in The Hague and devoted six piano sonatas (KV 26-31). Mozart visited them a year later at the court in The Hague and in 1778 he spent a week at a concert tour in nassau because burg residence Kirchheimbolanden to.

Marriage and issue

At the request of her mother she married on March 5, 1760 in The Hague with 17 years of Prince Karl Christian of Nassau- Weilburg ( 1735-1788 ):

• Georg (1760-1762)
• Wilhelm (1761-1762)
• Marie (1764-1802)
• Luise (1765-1837); ∞ Heinrich XIII. ( Reuss ä.L. ) ​​( 1747-1817 )
• ( Daughter ) (* / † 1767)
• Friedrich Wilhelm (1768-1816), Prince of Nassau -Weilburg
• Karoline (1770-1828); ∞ Prince Charles Louis of Wied - Runkel (1763-1824)
• Karl ( * / † 1772)
• Karl (1775-1807)
• Amalie (1776-1841)
• Henrietta (1780-1857); ∞ Ludwig Friedrich Alexander of Württemberg (1756-1817)