Who married Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia?
Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick married Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia on . Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia was 20 years old on the wedding day (20 years, 8 months and 11 days). Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick was 25 years old on the wedding day (25 years, 6 months and 7 days). The age gap was 4 years, 9 months and 27 days.
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia: Marriage Status Timeline
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Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia (German: Viktoria Luise Adelheid Mathilde Charlotte; 13 September 1892 – 11 December 1980) was the only daughter and youngest child of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. Through her father, Victoria Louise was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
Victoria Louise's 1913 wedding to Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover was the largest gathering of reigning monarchs in Germany since German unification in 1871, and one of the last great social events of European royalty before the First World War began fourteen months later. Shortly after the wedding, she became the Duchess of Brunswick by marriage.
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Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick
Ernest Augustus (Ernest Augustus Christian George; German: Ernst August Christian Georg; 17 November 1887 – 30 January 1953) was Duke of Brunswick from 2 November 1913 to 8 November 1918. He was a grandson of George V of Hanover, thus a Prince of Hanover and a Prince of the United Kingdom. He was also a maternal grandson of Christian IX of Denmark and the son-in-law of German Emperor Wilhelm II. The Prussians had deposed King George from the Hanoverian throne in 1866, but his marriage ended the decades-long feud between the Prussians and the Hanoverians.
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