Born: 1858
Daughter of: Carles Munck
Married: Oskar
Died: 1946
Ekaterina Mikhailovna, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Born: 1827
Daughter of: Mikhail Pavlovich (1788-1849) & Elena (Charlotte) of Wurttemberg (1807-1873)
Married: George (1824-1876)
Children: Nikolaus, Helene, George Alexander, Karl Michael
(Tsar Alexander II had been visiting her when he was assassinated in 1881).
Died: 1894
Ekaterina Ioannovna of Russia
Born: 1915
Daughter of: Ioann Konstantinovich (1886-1918 – murdered by Bolsheviks) & Elena of Serbia (1884-1962)
Eleanor of Reuss-Kostitz, Queen of Bulgaria
Born: 22 August 1860, Trebschen
Married: Ferdinand I (1861-1948)
Died: 12 September 1917 near Varna
Eleanore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, Grand Duchess of HesseBorn: 1871
Married: Ernst Ludwig of Hesse (1868-1937)
Children: George Donatus, Ludwig
Died: 1937 (killed in a plane crash on the way to her son, Ludwig’s wedding).
Eleanore of Bavaria
Born: 1918
Daughter of: Franz (1875-1957) & Isabel of Croy (1890-1982)
Married: Konstantin of Waldburg (1909-1972)
Elena of Montenegro, Queen of Italy
Born: 8 January 1873, Cetinje
Daughter of: Nicholas I & Milena
Married: Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947)
Children: Yolande, Mafalda, Umberto, Joanna, Maria
Died: 28 November 1953, Montpellier
Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, Princess of Greece
Born: 17 January 1882, Tsarskoe Selo
Daughter of: Vladimir Alexandrovich (1847-1909) & Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1854-1920)
Married: Nicholas (1872-1938)
Children: Olga, Elizabeth, Marina
Died: 13 March 1957, Athens
“Poor little thing, I feel sorry for her, for she is quite sweet but vain and pretty grandiose.” (Empress Marie Feodorovna)
Elena of Serbia, Princess of Russia
Born: 1884
Daughter of: Peter I (1844-1921) & Zorka of Montenegro (1864-1918)
Married: Ioann Konstantinovich (1886-1918 – murdered by Bolsheviks).
Children: Vsevelod, Ekaterina
Died: 1962
Elena, Princess Romanovsky
Born: 15 January 1892, Nice
Daughter of: George of Leuchtenburg (1852-1912) & Anastasia of Montenegro (1868-1935)
Married: Eugene, Count Tyszkiewicz (1896-1976)
Died: 6 February 1971, Rome
Elise, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Born: 1830
Daughter of: Ernst (1794-1860) & Feodora of Saxe-Leiningen (1807-1872)
(Queen Victoria’s neice)
Died: 1850
Elise of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Princess Reuss of Schliez
Born: 1864
Daughter of: Hermann (1832-1913) & Leopoldine of Baden (1837-1903)
Married: Henry XXVII (1858-1928)
Children: Victoria, Louise, Henry XL, Henry XLIII, Henry XLV
Died: 1929
Elizabeth of Savoy, Archduchess of Austria
Born: 1800
Daughter of: Carlo Emmanuel & Maria of Savoy
Married: Ranier
Died: 1853 (1856?)
Elizabeth (‘Elise’) of Bavaria, Queen of Prussia
Born: 13 November 1801, Munich
Daughter of: Maximilian & Caroline of Baden
Married: Frederick William IV (1795-1861)
Died: 14 December 1873, Dresden
“She can be very kind and sensible and she is much to be pitied.” (Queen Victoria 1858)
“[She] was never forgiven for having been a Catholic and having Austrian sympathies.” (Crown Princess Victoria, 1880)
Elizabeth of Wurttemberg
Born: 27 February 1802, Riga
Daughter of: Ludwig (1756-1817) & Henriette of Nassau (1780-1857)
Married: William of Baden (1792-1859)
Children: Henriette, Sophie, Elizabeth, Leopoldine
Died: 5 December 1864, Karlsruhe
Elizabeth of Prussia, Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt
Born: 1815
Married: Karl (1809-1877)
Children: Ludwig, Henry, Anne, William, stillborn son.
Died: 1885
“I admire her also now that I know and understand her. There is so much beneath, so much Geműth, tenderness, and delicacy of feeling.” (Princess Alice 1865)
Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia, Duchess of Nassau
Born: 1826
Daughter of: Mikhail (1789-1849) & Charlotte of Wurttemberg (1807=1873)
Married: Adolph (1817-1905)
Died: 1845, one day after the birth of a daughter
Elizabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, Grand Duchess of Oldenburg
Born: 1826
Daughter of: Joseph (1789-1868) & Amelie of Wurttemberg (1799-1848)
Married: Peter III (1827-1900)
Children: Frederick August, George
Died: 1896
“She has become such a bore because she can talk of nothing else than the details of the interior of her nursery, or of Russia, which is worse because she goes into ecstasies about everything that is Russian.” (Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia 1860)
Elizabeth of Saxony, Queen of Sardinia, Duchess of Genoa
Born: 4 April 1830, Dresden
Daughter of: Johann (1801-1873) & Amelie of Bavaria (1801-1877)
Married: 1) Ferdinand of Sardinia (1822-1855)
2) Niccolo Rapallo (1825-1912)
Died: 4 August 1912, Stresa
Elizabeth of Austria, Archduchess of Austria-Este (Modena)
Born: 1831
Married: 1) Ferdinand of Austria-Este (1821-1849)
children: Maria Theresa
2) Karl Ferdinand of Austria (1818-1874)
Died: 1903
Elizabeth of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Princess of Lippe-Detmold
Born: 1833
Married: Leopold III (1821-1875)
Died: 1896
Elizabeth of Baden
Born: 18 December 1835, Karlsruhe
Daughter of: William, Margrave of Baden (1792-1859) & Elizabeth of Wurttemberg (1802-1864)
Died: 15 May 1891, Karlsruhe
Elizabeth (‘Sissi’) in Bavaria, Empress of Austria
Born: 1837Daughter of: Maximilian & Ludovica (1808-1892)
Married: Franz Josef (1830-1916)
Children: Rudolf, Sophie, Gisela, Maria Valeria
Died: Murdered by an anarchist 1898
“She was so melancholy, so unhappy, so sick and tired of life and took such a sad view of existence that I am sure the fact of being at rest is a blessed one for her…She was so kind and so simple and a straightforward, trustworthy character, courageous and independent. I was truly fond of her…she had kept the traces of her extraordinary loveliness: her smile, her figure, he walk and her carriage, even now though her face was lined and worn and she terribly thin. She had not a grey hair, the loads of chestnut plaits had become much thinner…She was always so nice and good and kind to me….She had strange eccentric habits, was shy, hated society. So people did not know that she was clever and gifted, which she really was.” (Empress Frederick 1898)
Elizabeth of Schaumburg-Lippe
Born:5 March 1841, Bueckeburg
Daughter of: George William (1781-1860) & Ida of Waldeck Pyrmont (1796-1869)
Married: William von Hanau (1836-1902) Divorced
Died: 30 November 1926, Weisbaden
Elizabeth of Wied, Queen of Roumania
Born: 1843Daughter of: Hermann (1814-1864) & Marie of Nassau (1825-1902)
Married: Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (King Carol I of Roumania) (1839-1914)
(she wrote under the pen-name Carmen Sylva)
Died: 1916
“I do not think her at all distinguée looking…She is not tall and has an underset figure not graceful, very fresh complexion and white teeth, a great many freckles and a mark of a leaf on one cheek which does not show much. She has not a pretty nose and rather a long chin. She is what you would call a strong healthy looking girl - nothing more - she does not look very ladylike and head not well dressed -whether she is clever or not I cannot say.” (Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia)
Elizabeth of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Born: 28 February 1854, Weimar
Daughter of Karl Alexander & Sophie of the Netherlands
Married: Johann Albrecht (1857-1920)
Died: 10 July 1908, Wiligrad
“Very nice girls but delicate and not pretty.” (Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia)
Elizabeth of Prussia, Duchess of Oldenburg
Born: 1857
Daughter of Frederick Karl & Marianne of Anhalt
Married: Frederick August (1852-1931)
Children: Sophie Charlotte, Margarete
Died: 1895
"She is such a good child with a gentle amiable disposition and so reasonable, quite a mother to her little sisters and brother;’ she will make a very fine figure. Her hair is splendid which makes up for her head being somewhat turnipy in shape - which most German children’s are." (Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia)
Elizabeth (‘Elly’) of Anhalt, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Born: 1857, Woerlitz
Daughter of: Frederick (1831-1904) & Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg (1838-1908)
Married: Adolph Frederick V (1838-1914)
Children: Adolph Frederick, Karl Borwin, Marie, Jutta
Died: 1933, Neustrelitz
“She however welters in happiness at her luxurious’ Schloss’ wearing a new Paris dress daily, Diamonds also, when we are quite entre nous – Yes, she does enjoy being a Grand Duchess!” (Augusta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
Elizabeth Reuss of Schleiz, Princess of Solms-Braunfels
Born: 1859
Daughter of: Henry XIV (1832-1913) & Agnes of Wurttemberg (1835-1886)
Married: Hermann (1845-1900)
Children: Marie Agnes, Helene, Ernst August, Frederick Eugen
Elizabeth of Thurn & Taxis, Duchess of Braganza
Born: 1860
Daughter of: Maximilian (1831-1867) & Helene in Bavaria (1834-1890)
Married: Miguel of Portugal (1853-1927)
Children: Miguel, Maria Teresa
Died: 1881 (in childbirth?)
Elizabeth of Hesse-Kassel, Princess of Anhalt
Born: 1861
Daughter of Frederick William (1820-1884) & Anna of Prussia (1836-1886)
Married: Leopold Frederick (1855-1886)
Children: Antoinette
Died: 1955
Elizabeth of Saxony
Born: 14 February 1862, Dresden
Daughter of: George (1832-1904) & Maria Anna of Portugal (1848-1884)
Died: 18 May 1863, Dresden
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