HM Ernst August King of Hanover,
Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, vDuke of Cumberland
(Born as: HRH Ernest Augustus Prince of Great Britain
and Ireland, Prince of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg)
(Since April 24th, 1799:) HRH Ernest Augustus Prince of
Great Britain and Ireland, Prince of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick
and Lüneburg, Duke of Cumberland
* Buckingham House, St. James Park, London, June 5th, 1771
Schloß Herrenhausen near Hanover, November 18th, 1851
Created Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, Earl of Armagh, April
24th, 1799; Heir Pressumptive to the Throne of Hanover, June
26th, 1830; Heir Pressumptive to the Throne of Great Britain and
Ireland, June 20th, 1837 - November 21st, 1840
King of Hanover, June 20th, 1837
Fieldmarshal of the Army
Knight of the Garter, June 2nd, 1786
Married:
Parish Church of Neu-Strelitz, May 29th and
Carlton House, Mayfair, London, August 29th, 1815:
HH Friederike Luise Caroline Sophia Alexandrina Duchess
of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
* Hanover, March 2nd, 1778
Hanover, June 29th, 1841
Children from this marriage:
HM Georg V
Friedrich Alexander Karl Ernst August King of Hanover, Duke of
Brunswick and Lüneburg, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, 2nd
Duke of Cumberland "The Blind"
(Born as: HRH George Frederick Alexander Charles Ernest
Augustus Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, Prince of Hanover,
Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg)
(Since June 20th, 1837:) HRH George Frederick Alexander
Charles Ernest Augustus Crown Prince of Hanover, Duke of
Brunswick and Lüneburg, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland
* Unter den Linden, Berlin, May 27th, 1819
7 Rue Presbourg, Paris, June 12th, 1878
Crown Prince of Hanover, June 20th, 1837
King of Hanover, November 18th, 1851 (deposed when Hanover was
annexed to Prussia, September 20th, 1866); 2nd Duke of Cumberland
and Teviotdale, Earl of Armagh, November 18th, 1851
Knight of the Garter, August 15th, 1835
Married:
Hanover, February 18th, 1843:
HH Alexandrina Marie Wilhelmine Katherina Charlotte
Theresa Henriette Luise Pauline Elisabeth Friederike Georgina
Princess of Saxe-Altenburg, Duchess of Saxony
* Hildburghausen, April 14th, 1818
Gmunden am Traunsee, January 9th, 1907
Children from this marriage:
Married:
St. George's Chapel, Windsor
Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, April 24th, 1880:
Liutbert Alexander George Lionel Alphonse 6th
Freiherr von Pawel-Ramingen
* Coburg, July 27th, 1843
Biarritz, November 20th, 1932
Child from this marriage:
HRH Ernst August Wilhelm Adolf Georg
Friedrich Crown Prince of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick and
Lüneburg, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, 3rd Duke of
Cumberland
(Born as: HRH Ernst August Wilhelm Adolf Georg Friedrich
Prince of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, Prince of
Great Britain and Ireland)
(Since November 18th, 1851:) HRH Ernst August Wilhelm
Adolf Georg Friedrich Crown Prince of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick
and Lüneburg, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland
* Hanover, September 21st, 1845
Gmunden am Traunsee, November 14th, 1923
Crown Prince of Hanover, November 18th, 1851; 3rd Duke of
Cumberland and Teviotdale, Earl of Armagh, June 12th, 1878
(Deprived of his British peerages by Order of the Privy Council,
March 28th, 1919. This order was invalid because it violated the
Sophia Naturalisation Act (1701) that provided British
citizinship for Protestant descendants of the Electress Sophia of
Hanover in perpetuity)
Knight of the Garter, June 23rd, 1878
Royal Chapel, Christiansborg Palace,
Copenhagen, December 21st, 1878:
HRH Thyra
Amalia Caroline Charlotte Anna
Princess of Denmark
(Born as: HH Thyra Amalia Caroline Charlotte Anna Princess
of Denmark)
* Yellow Palace, Amaliegade, Copenhagen, September 29th, 1853
Gmunden am Traunsee, February 26th, 1933
Married:
Gmunden am Traunsee, July 10th,
1900:
HRH Maximilian Alexander Friedrich
Wilhelm Margrave von Baden,
Duke von Zähringen ("Max")
(Born as: HGDH Maximilian Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm
Grand-Ducal Prince and Margrave von Baden)
* Baden-Baden, July 10th, 1867
Konstanz, November 6th, 1929
Heir Pressumptive to the Throne of Baden, September 28th, 1907
Head of the Grand-Ducal Family of Baden, August 9th, 1928
Chancellor of the German Empire and Prime Minister of Prussia,
October 3rd - November 9th, 1918
HRH Ernst August Christian Georg Prince of
Hanover, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, Prince of Great Britain
and Ireland
* Penzing near Vienna, November 17th, 1887
Schloß Marienburg, Nordstemmen near Hanover, January
30th, 1953
Duke of Brunswick, November 1st, 1913 (abdicated: November 8th,
1918); Head of the Royal Family of Hanover, November 14th, 1923
(civil) Electress' Hall and (religious)
Chapel, Royal Palace, Berlin, May 24th, 1913:
HRH Viktoria Luise Adelheid Mathilde Charlotte Princess of Prussia ("Sisi")
* Marmor Palais, Potsdam, September 13th, 1892
Hanover, December 11th, 1980
Athens, January 9th, 1938:
HM Pavlos I King of the Hellenes
(Born as: HRH Pavlos Prince of Greece and
Denmark)
* Tatoi Palace near Athens, December 14th, 1901
Tatoi Palace near Athens, March 6th, 1964
Heir Pressumptive to the Throne, June 11th, 1917 -
December 19th, 1920 and since September 27th, 1922
King of the Hellenes, April 1st, 1947
Married:
(morganatic) (civil) Salzburg and
(religious) Christ Church, Salzburg, November 23rd, 1963:
Mireille Nicole Odette Dutry
* Chelsea, London, January 10th, 1946
(Divorced: Brussels, December 18th, 1979)
Children from this marriage:
Married:
(civil) Büdingen, September 20th
and (religious) Marienkirche, Büdingen, September 21st,
1960:
HSH Alexandra Sophie Cecilie Anna Maria
Friederike Benigna Dorothea
Princess zu Ysenburg und Büdingen in Wächtersbach
* Frankfurt am Main, October 23rd, 1937
HRH Ernst
August Georg Wilhelm Christian Ludwig Franz Joseph Nikolaus
Oskar Prince of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, Prince
of Great Britain and Ireland
* Brunswick, March 18th, 1914
Calenberg Castle near Schulenburg an der Leine, December
9th, 1987
Head of the Royal Family of Hanover, January 30th, 1953
Married:
Children from this marriage:
Married:
(civil) Pattenson, June 4th and
(religious) Schloß Marienburg, Nordstemmen near Hanover,
June 5th, 1982:
Michael Georg Botho Count von Hochberg, Freiherr
zu Fürstenstein
* Züllichau, December 5th, 1943
Children from this marriage:
Children from the first marriage:
Child from the second marriage:
Married:
(civil) Eisenkappel, August 27th
and (religious) Bleiburg Castle, October 4th, 1987:
Isabella Maria Countess von Thurn und
Valsassina-Como-Vercelli
* Klagenfurt, February 12th, 1962
(cocaine overdose) Königinvilla, Gmunden am
Traunsee, November 28th, 1988
Child from this marriage:
Married:
(civil) Schloß Amorbach, Odenwald,
October 5th and (religious) Pfarrkirche, Gmunden am
Traunsee, October 11th, 1981:
HSH Andreas 8th Fürst zu Leiningen
(Born as: HSH Andreas Prince zu Leiningen)
(Since May 24th, 1991:) HSH Andreas Hereditary
Prince zu Leiningen
* Frankfurt am Main, November 27th, 1955
Hereditary Prince zu Leiningen, May 24th, 1991
8th Fürst zu Leiningen, October 30th, 1991
Married:
St. Andreas Church, Teistungen im
Eichsfeld, June 19th, 1999:
Thyra Donata Sixtina von Westernhagen
* Oldenburg, August 14th, 1973
Illegitimate child:
Child from this marriage:
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Last updated: October 22nd, 2001.