Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg

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Duchess Marie Antoinette

Born| (1884-05-28)28 May 1884
Venice
Died| 26 October 1944(1944-10-26) (aged 60)
Bled, Yugoslavia
| Names

Marie Antoinette Margarethe Mathilde
House| House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
(by birth)
Father| Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg
Mother| Princess Marie of Windisch-Graetz

Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, also Manette (Marie Antoinette Margarethe Mathilde; 28 May 1884 – 26 October 1944) was the second daughter of Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg and the Austrian-born Princess Marie of Windisch-Graetz.

## Contents

* 1 Life
* 2 Honours
* 3 Ancestry
* 4 References

## Life[edit]

Her brothers and sisters were Duke Paul Friedrich of Mecklenburg (1882–1904), Duchess Maria Luise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1883–1883), Duke Heinrich Borwin of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1885–1942), and Duke Joseph of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1889–1889). Marie Antoinette had a difficult relationship with her cousin Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, who regularly had to amortize her debts. So, Marie Antoinette regularly had to sell archaeological artifacts belonging to her mother, excavated in Austria and Carniola, including Hallstatt Archaeological Site in Vače. Some of these objects are still today in Harvard, Oxford and Berlin. She regularly remained in Bled with her lady in waiting Baroness Antonia Pilars de Pilar. During World War I from 1914 to 1918 they both served in several military hospitals as red cross ladies.

She was German Kaiser Wilhelm II's candidate for a bride for King Alfonso XIII of Spain although he would marry the Kaiser's maternal first cousin, Princess Victoria Eugenie, niece of British King Edward VII.[1]

## Honours[edit]

* Mecklenburg: Dame's Decoration of the House Order of the Wendish Crown, in Diamonds[2]

## Ancestry[edit]

Ancestors of Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg

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| 8\. Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg|

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| 17\. Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia

| 4\. Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg|

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| 18\. Frederick William III of Prussia

| 9\. Princess Alexandrine of Prussia|

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| 19\. Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

| 2\. Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg|

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| 20\. Prince Heinrich XLIV Reuss of Köstritz

| 10\. Prince Heinrich LXIII of Reuss-Köstritz|

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| 21\. Baroness Wilhelmine of Geuder-Rabensteiner

| 5\. Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz|

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| 22\. Count Heinrich of Stolberg-Wernigerode

| 11\. Countess Eleonore of Stolberg-Wernigerode|

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| 23\. Princess Jenny of Schönburg-Waldenburg

| 1\. Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg|
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| 24\. Joseph, Count of Windisch-Grätz

| 12\. Weriand, Prince of Windisch-Grätz|

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| 25\. Princess Léopoldine of Arenberg

| 6\. Hugo, Prince of Windisch-Grätz|

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| 26\. Joseph, Prince of Lobkowicz

| 13\. Princess Eleonore of Lobkowicz|

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| 27\. Princess Caroline of Schwarzenberg

| 3\. Princess Marie of Windisch-Grätz|

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| 28\. Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin = 16

| 14\. Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg = 8|

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| 29\. Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia = 17

| 7\. Duchess Luise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin|

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| 30\. Frederick William III of Prussia = 18

| 15\. Princess Alexandrine of Prussia = 9|

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| 31\. Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz = 19

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## References[edit]

1. ^ Pilapil, Vicente R. (1969). "Alfonso XIII".
2. ^ Grossherzoglich Mecklenburg-Schwerinscher Staatskalendar, 1908, p. 3

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