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286:(officially)
236:Prince Henry
177:(1888-12-15)
159:15 July 1823
116:
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76:
64:
52:Please help
47:verification
44:
2906:1888 deaths
2901:1823 births
2685:Mountbatten
2550:Prince Emil
1476:, 1st Class
1405:, 1st Class
1234:Württemberg
1175:23 May 1884
1081:Mecklenburg
757:Descendants
739:Lutheranism
721:, 1857–1893
697:Durchlaucht
613:Great Power
561:re-patriate
472:chamberlain
193:Rosenhohe,
2895:Categories
2681:Battenberg
2345:, London,
2127:, Berlin:
2013:References
936:1 May 1840
883:Wilhelm II
871:love match
689:Prinzessin
681:morganatic
597:mediatized
576:Battenberg
535:Nicholas I
444:Battenberg
438:, wife of
155:1823-07-15
80:newspapers
1469:July 1859
1122:June 1863
1065:Brunswick
842:Felipe VI
733:1861–1924
727:1858–1896
715:1854–1921
709:1852–1923
657:Darmstadt
552:in 1851.
515:Orthodoxy
487:tsarevich
341:Louis III
291:(rumored)
195:Darmstadt
182:Jugenheim
162:Darmstadt
110:June 2019
2192:Archived
2166:citation
1507:Ancestry
1304:Bulgaria
1097:Schwerin
855:Bulgaria
851:reigning
820:Beatrice
793:married
677:appanage
671:Children
632:billeted
589:Erlaucht
565:dynastic
508:Countess
367:Louis IV
337:Children
329:Louis II
2250:2 April
1322:Denmark
1256:Austria
1146:Prussia
1008:Bavaria
875:deposed
809:of the
652:annexed
617:lancers
550:Breslau
498:Hesse.
491:consort
184:, Hesse
94:scholar
2687:family
2347:p. 198
2274:
2139:, 1886
1601:(= 15)
1542:(= 14)
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1378:Monaco
1375:
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781:Sweden
679:, his
636:Vienna
603:Career
570:Gräfin
542:eloped
442:. The
430:, and
296:Mother
280:Father
202:Spouse
189:Burial
96:
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2189:p. 13
2030:pp. 3
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1906:(= 8)
1360:Italy
1030:Baden
830:Spain
771:Alice
609:cadet
607:As a
585:style
517:, as
495:match
485:, as
464:Marie
269:House
254:Names
213:Issue
166:Hesse
101:JSTOR
87:books
2698:and
2272:ISBN
2252:2020
2172:link
2137:1048
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172:Died
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