Victoria Louise (1892–1980)

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Victoria Louise (1892–1980)

Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Born Victoria Louise Adelaide Matilda Charlotte on September 13, 1892, at Marble Palace, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany; died on December 11, 1980, in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany; daughter of Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein (1858–1921) and Wilhelm II (1859–1941), emperor of Germany (r. 1888–1918); married Ernest Augustus of Cumberland (1887–1953), duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (r. 1923–1953), on May 24, 1913; children: Ernest Augustus (1914–1987); George (b. 1915); Fredericka (1917–1981, queen of Greece); Christian (1919–1981); Welf-Henry (b. 1923); Monika of Solms-Laubach (b. 1929).

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