Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden

Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden (Marie Alexandra Thyra Victoria Louise Carola Hilda; 1 August 1902 – 29 January 1944) was a Hessian princess by marriage.

Princess Marie Alexandra
Princess Wolfgang of Hesse Crown Princess of Finland
Born	(1902-08-01)1 August 1902 Salem, Baden-Württemberg, German Empire
Died	29 January 1944(1944-01-29) (aged 41) Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Nazi Germany
Spouse	Prince Wolfgang of Hesse ​ ​ (m. 1924)​
Names Marie Alexandra Thyra Victoria Louise Carola Hilda
House	Baden
Father	Prince Maximilian of Baden
Mother	Princess Marie Louise of Hanover and Cumberland

Family

She was the only daughter and elder child of Prince Maximilian of Baden (1867–1929) and Princess Marie Louise of Hanover and Cumberland. Her paternal grandparents were Prince Wilhelm of Baden (1829–97) and Princess Maria of Leuchtenberg (1841–1914), a daughter of Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817–52) and Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna (1819–1876).

Princess Marie-Louise of Hanover (1879–1948) was a daughter of Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, claimant of the annexed Kingdom of Hanover.

Marriage

On 17 September 1924, she married her fourth cousin Prince Wolfgang of Hesse (1896–1989).^[1] They had no children.

Death

Princess Marie Alexandra was killed in an attack by the U.S. Army Air Forces during an air-raid on Frankfurt am Main on 29–30 January 1944 during World War II. She and seven other women, who were aid workers, were killed when the cellar, in which they had taken refuge, collapsed under the weight of the building, rendering Marie Alexandra's body barely recognisable.^[2]

Ancestry

See also: Descendants of Christian IX of Denmark

Ancestors of Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden

8. Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden 4. Prince William of Baden 9. Princess Sophie of Sweden 2. Prince Maximilian of Baden 10. Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg 5. Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg 11. Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia 1. Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden 12. George V of Hanover 6. Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover 13. Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg 3. Princess Marie Louise of Hanover 14. Christian IX of Denmark 7. Princess Thyra of Denmark 15. Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel

References

1. "Political Talk Started When Kaiser's Nephew Weds the Daughter of Bitter Enemy". The Cincinnati Enquirer. 1924-09-28. p. 12. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
2. Petropoulos, Jonathan (2008). Royals and the Reich: The Princes Von Hessen in Nazi Germany. Oxford University Press. pp. 317–318. ISBN 978-0-19-533927-7.