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Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt
Duke + Princess
Female
Born
Jun 10, 1898
Hometown
Ballenstedt
Died
May 22, 1983
Death Place
Essen
Princess Marie Auguste of Anhalt was the daughter of Eduard, Duke of Anhalt and his wife Princess Luise of Saxe-Altenburg.
Romance
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Johannes-Michael Freiherr von LoënMarried 1926 - 1935
Family
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Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt
d.1983
parents
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Princess Luise of Saxe-AltenburgMother
children
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Prince Karl Franz Josef Wilhelm Friedrich Eduard of PrussiaSon, d.1975
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1898
Birth
On 10 June 1898, Marie-Auguste was born in in Ballenstedt, Anhalt, Germany to the then Prince Eduard of Anhalt and his wife Princess Louise of Saxe-Altenburg.
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TEENAGE
1916
18 Years Old
On 11 March 1916 in Berlin, Marie-Auguste married Prince Joachim of Prussia, the youngest son of German Emperor William II.
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TWENTIES
1920
22 Years Old
After her father-in-law Emperor Wilhelm's abdication, her husband was unable to accept his new status as a commoner and fell into a deep depression, finally committing suicide by gunshot on 18 July 1920 in Potsdam.
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1921
23 Years Old
This was later declared to have been illegal, and his mother was given full custody of him in 1921.
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1922
24 Years Old
In 1922, Marie-Auguste sued ex-Emperor Wilhelm for financial support that had been promised in her and Joachim's marriage contract. Wilhelm's attorney argued that the House of Hohenzollern laws were no longer valid, and therefore there was no obligation to support her. On 27 September 1926, she remarried to Johannes-Michael Freiherr von Loën, a childhood friend. They were divorced in 1935, and Marie-Auguste reverted to her maiden name.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1980
82 Years Old
In 1980, Princess Marie Auguste adopted Hans Robert Lichtenberg, and he took the name of Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt.
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1983
85 Years Old
Princess Marie Auguste died on 22 May 1983 at Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany.
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