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225:Prince Henry
166:(1888-12-15)
148:15 July 1823
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2890:1823 births
2674:Mountbatten
2539:Prince Emil
1465:, 1st Class
1394:, 1st Class
1223:Württemberg
1164:23 May 1884
1070:Mecklenburg
746:Descendants
728:Lutheranism
710:, 1857–1893
686:Durchlaucht
602:Great Power
550:re-patriate
461:chamberlain
182:Rosenhohe,
2884:Categories
2670:Battenberg
2334:, London,
2116:, Berlin:
2002:References
925:1 May 1840
872:Wilhelm II
860:love match
678:Prinzessin
670:morganatic
586:mediatized
565:Battenberg
524:Nicholas I
433:Battenberg
427:, wife of
144:1823-07-15
69:newspapers
1458:July 1859
1111:June 1863
1054:Brunswick
831:Felipe VI
722:1861–1924
716:1858–1896
704:1854–1921
698:1852–1923
646:Darmstadt
541:in 1851.
504:Orthodoxy
476:tsarevich
330:Louis III
280:(rumored)
184:Darmstadt
171:Jugenheim
151:Darmstadt
99:June 2019
2181:Archived
2155:citation
1496:Ancestry
1293:Bulgaria
1086:Schwerin
844:Bulgaria
840:reigning
809:Beatrice
782:married
666:appanage
660:Children
621:billeted
578:Erlaucht
554:dynastic
497:Countess
356:Louis IV
326:Children
318:Louis II
2239:2 April
1311:Denmark
1245:Austria
1135:Prussia
997:Bavaria
864:deposed
798:of the
641:annexed
606:lancers
539:Breslau
487:Hesse.
480:consort
173:, Hesse
83:scholar
2676:family
2336:p. 198
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592:Career
559:Gräfin
531:eloped
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419:, and
285:Mother
269:Father
191:Spouse
178:Burial
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1349:Italy
1019:Baden
819:Spain
760:Alice
598:cadet
596:As a
574:style
506:, as
484:match
474:, as
453:Marie
258:House
243:Names
202:Issue
155:Hesse
90:JSTOR
76:books
2687:and
2261:ISBN
2241:2020
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