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Louise Margaret was the third surviving daughter of Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, a military officer popularly known as the “Red Prince” and grandson of Kaiser Friedrich Wilhem III, and Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau, a talented musician and painter. In 1878, Louise Margaret met Prince Arthur (1850-1942), Queen Victoria’s seventh child an...
On 13 March 1879, Arthur and Louise Margaret were married at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor. They had three children, Margaret (1882–1920), who married the future King Gustaf VI Adolph of Sweden in 1905; Arthur (1883–1938) who served as Governor General of South Africa from 1920 to 1924; and Patricia(1886–1974) who accompanied her parents to Canada a...
The Duke and Duchess of Connaught and their younger daughter, 25-year-old Princess Patricia, arrived in Ottawa on 14 October 1911 after the Duke’s installation as Governor General in the Quebec legislature the day before. The unfinished Chateau Laurier hotel displayed welcome banners in French and English. The Duchess was not impressed at first by ...
At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the Duchess established the Duchess of Connaught Hospital Fund to raise money for the establishment of military hospitals in Europe to care for wounded members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Nancy Astor, Britain’s first female member of parliament, offered the use of her residence Cliveden House...
The Duke and Duchess of Connaught took a strong interest in the arts and both their daughters were accomplished painters. The Duchess of Connaught sponsored art exhibitions in Canada and supported the work of Canadian artists. In 1912, she was the patron of an exhibition of paintings, watercolours, pastels and drawings by the artist Mary Riter Hami...
The Duchess suffered from extended periods of ill health during her time as viceregal consort. In 1912, she suffered symptoms of what appeared to be appendicitis or peritonitis while in Quebec. In March 1913, she returned to the United Kingdom with the Duke for an operation and a period of convalescence. She suffered a relapse and required a second...
Princess Margaret Louise of Prussia Duchess of Connaught was born on 25 July 1860 in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia [now Brandenburg, Germany]. She was married to Prince Arthur Duke of Connaught. She died on 14 March 1917 in Westminster, London, England, UK.
- July 25, 1860
- March 14, 1917
Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (Louise Margaret Alexandra Victoria Agnes; 25 July 1860 – 14 March 1917), later Duchess of Connaught and Strathearn, was a member of the House of Hohenzollern who married into the British royal family.
Mar 14, 2017 · Today marks the centenary of the death of Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught, who died on this day in 1917. Born Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, she was a granddaughter of King Frederick William III of Prussia, and the product of an unhappy marriage.
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