Princess Charlotte of Prussia

Princess Charlotte of Prussia, full name Victoria Elizabeth Augusta Charlotte of Prussia VA ( born July 24, 1860 in Potsdam, † October 1, 1919 in Baden -Baden ) was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and by marriage Duchess of Saxe- Meiningen (1914 - 1918).

Life

Charlotte was the second child and eldest daughter of the future emperor Frederick (III ) of Prussia and his wife, the British Princess (Princess Royal) Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland. Through her mother, Charlotte, was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort Albert of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha.

Charlotte was a capricious and light-hearted princess and wanted as quickly as possible away from home. Since a marriage offered her the only way out, the choice fell on the shy and educated Crown Prince Bernhard of Saxe- Meiningen. Because the prince was a suitable marriage candidate and her daughter caused a lot of unrest at home, the royal couple agreed to Charlottes marriage. The engagement with her cousin ( 2nd degree ) in 1876 and the marriage took place on 18 February 1878 in Berlin. The young couple had a daughter, Feodora, who was born on 12 May 1879 after their birth, Charlotte soon devoted himself to the Berlin Society. The distance to her mother Charlotte wrote their conservative political views - her mother preferred the liberal policy towards Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. In 1891 she was involved in the puke affair. 1914 Prince Bernhard inherited the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, and was the last reigning Duke, as he was forced to abdicate at the end of the First World War. A few months later Duchess Charlotte died after a long illness with cancer only 59 years.

After the suicide of her daughter Feodora, 1945, the doctors found out that she and presumably her mother, Duchess Charlotte, suffered from porphyria. At the same hereditary disease Charlotte's great-great grandfather suffered from King George III.