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Hace 3 días · Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld (Désirée Elisabeth Sibylla; born 2 June 1938) is a member of the Swedish royal family. She is the third child of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and an elder sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf .
Hace 4 días · Prince Frederick William Louis of Prussia ( German: Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig; 30 October 1794 – 27 July 1863) was a Prussian prince and military officer.
Hace 2 días · Frederick William was born in the New Palace at Potsdam in Prussia on 18 October 1831. [1] He was a scion of the House of Hohenzollern, rulers of Prussia, then the most powerful of the German states.
Hace 2 días · Germany - Prussia, Austria, Contest: In 1740 the death of the Habsburg emperor Charles VI without a male heir unleashed the most embittered conflict in Germany since the wars of Louis XIV. The question of the succession to the Austrian throne had occupied statesmen for decades.
Hace 2 días · In southern Germany the dissolution of the Hohenstaufen duchy of Swabia gave territorial predominance to the Habsburgs, whose original possessions were scattered across Alsace, Breisgau, the Vorarlberg, and Tirol.
Hace 5 días · Marie’s maternal great-aunt Louise of Baden (Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna) had married Alexander I, Emperor of All Russia. Alexander Nikolaevich’s mother Empress Alexandra Feodorovna , born Princess Charlotte of Prussia, was against the marriage.
Hace 2 días · Germany - Unification, Prussia, Europe: After his conquest of the German lands, Charlemagne administered the area like he did the rest of his kingdom, or empire (Reich), through his counts and bishops.
