Rosalie von Rauch was the morganatic second wife of Prince Albert of Prussia

Prince Albert of Prussia (1809-1872)

Prince Albert of Prussia was a Prussian colonel general. Albert was the fifth son and youngest child of King Frederick William III of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. His parents had fled to East Prussia after the occupation of Berlin by Napoleon...

, the youngest child of King Frederick William III

Frederick William III of Prussia

Frederick William III was king of Prussia from 1797 to 1840. He was in personal union the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel .-Early life:...

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She was the only daughter of Prussian General and Minister of War

Prussian Minister of War

The Prussian War Ministry was gradually established between 1808 and 1809 as part of a series of reforms initiated by the Military Reorganization Commission created after the disastrous Treaty of Paris. The War Ministry was to help bring the army under constitutional control, and, along with the...

 Gustav von Rauch

Gustav von Rauch

Gustav von Rauch was a Prussian general, chief of staff from 1812-1813, and Minister of War from 1837 to 1841. His daughter Rosalie, married Prince Albert of Prussia as second, morgantic, wife in 1850....

. On June 13, 1850, she married Prince Albert of Prussia

Prince Albert of Prussia (1809-1872)

Prince Albert of Prussia was a Prussian colonel general. Albert was the fifth son and youngest child of King Frederick William III of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. His parents had fled to East Prussia after the occupation of Berlin by Napoleon...

, son of King Frederick William III of Prussia

Frederick William III of Prussia

Frederick William III was king of Prussia from 1797 to 1840. He was in personal union the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel .-Early life:...

. The marriage produced two sons: Wilhelm, born in 1854, and Friedrich, born in 1857.

After the death of her husband (1872), she was created Countess von Hohenau. She is regarded as the patroness of House Rauch.

Children

She had two sons with Prince Albert:

• Wilhelm "Willy" Hohenau (25 April 1854 – 28 October 1930), married first to Baroness Laura Saurma von der Jeltsch, and secondly to Princess Margaret Hohenlohe, a daughter of Prince Hugo of Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Duke of Ujest
  Ujest
  UJEST a small town on the Klodnitz in Poland, which gives the title of duke to the head of the family of Hohenlohe–Öhringen, a branch of that of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen. Prince Hugo of Hohenlohe-Öhringen was created duke of Ujest in 1861, and in 1897 was succeeded by his son Christian Kraft...
  
  , and Princess Pauline von Fürstenberg, whose maternal uncle was Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden
  Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden
  Leopold I, Grand Duke of Baden succeeded in 1830 as the fourth Grand Duke of Baden....
  
  ; had four children by these two marriages who bore the titles of Counts and Countesses Hohenau;
• Friedrich "Fritz" Hohenau (21 May 1857 – 15 April 1914), married Countess Charlotte von der Decken and had four sons, Albert, William, Frederick-Charles and Frederick-Francis.

Over ten years after her death, her daughter-in-law Charlotte was involved in the "Kotze scandal", which lasted from the autumn of 1892 until the summer of 1894. Her son Fritz's wife was rumoured to be having an affair with Fritz's cousin Emperor Wilhelm II.