Princess Marie of Hanover was the younger daughter of King George V of Hanover

George V of Hanover

George V was King of Hanover, the only child of Ernest Augustus I, and a grandchild of King George III of the United Kingdom. In the peerage of Great Britain, he was 2nd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, 2nd Earl of Armagh...

 and of his wife, Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg

Marie of Saxe-Altenburg

Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg was Queen of Hanover and the consort of George V, a grandson of George III of the United Kingdom and Queen Charlotte.-Early life:Marie was born at Hildburghausen, as Princess Marie of...

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Biography

Marie was born in the city of Hanover

Hanover

Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

. She held the title of Princess with the style of Royal Highness

Royal Highness

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in the Kingdom of Hanover

Kingdom of Hanover

The Kingdom of Hanover was established in October 1814 by the Congress of Vienna, with the restoration of George III to his Hanoverian territories after the Napoleonic era. It succeeded the former Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg , and joined with 38 other sovereign states in the German...

. In the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, she held the title of Princess with the style Her Highness

Highness

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as a male line great-granddaughter of King George III

George III of the United Kingdom

George III was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death...

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In 1866 Marie's father was deposed as king of Hanover. Marie and her mother remained in Hanover for over a year, residing at Schloss Marienburg, until they went into exile in Austria

Austria

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 in July 1867. Eventually the family settled at Gmunden

Gmunden

Gmunden is a town in Upper Austria, Austria in the district of Gmunden. It has 13,202 inhabitants . It is much frequented as a health and summer resort, and has a variety of goat, lake, brine, vegetable and pine-cone baths, a hydropathic establishment, inhalation chambers, whey cure, etc...

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Marriage prospects

Marie visited England

England

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 with her family in May 1876, and again, after her father's death, in June 1878. Her sister Frederica

Princess Frederica of Hanover

Princess Frederica of Hanover, was a member of the House of Hanover. After her marriage, she lived mostly in England, where she was a prominent member of Society.-Early life:...

 moved to England where she married, but Marie returned to Gmunden where she remained single and lived with her mother at Schloss Cumberland (named after her father's British ducal title). An American newspaper suggests that Marie twice turned down an offer of marriage from Queen Victoria's third son the Duke of Connaught

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn was a member of the shared British and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha royal family who served as the Governor General of Canada, the 10th since Canadian Confederation.Born the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and...

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Death

Marie died at Gmunden at the age of 54. Her funeral was the day after her death since two days later her niece Princess Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland

Princess Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland

Princess Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland , Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg Princess Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland (German: Alexandra Louise Marie Olga Elisabeth Therese Vera Prinzessin von Hannover und Cumberland), Princess of Great Britain and...

 was scheduled to marry Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Frederick Francis IV was the last Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and regent of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.-Early life:...

. Marie is buried in the family mausoleum at Schloss Cumberland next to her mother who outlived her by three years.

Titles and styles

• 2 December 1849 – 4 June 1904: Her Royal Highness Princess Marie of Hanover, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland

Ancestry

External links

• Photograph of Marie