, spouse = Prince Welf Henry of Hanover
(m. 1960; died 1997) , house = Ysenburg-Büdingen , father = Otto Friedrich III, Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen , mother = Princess Felicitas Reuss of Köstritz , birth_date = , birth_place =

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, death_date = , death_place =Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany Princess Alexandra of Hannover (née ''Princess Alexandra Sophie Cecilie Anna Maria Friederike Benigna Dorothea of Ysenburg and Büdingen''; 23 October 1937 – 1 June 2015) was a German politician, philanthropist, and wife of Prince Welf Henry of Hanover. Hannover lastly served as a councilwoman representing the Niederrad district of Frankfurt on the Frankfurt City Council (german: link=no, Frankfurter Stadtverordnetenversammlung). She was a member of the Christian Democratic Union political party.

Personal life

Alexandra Prinzessin von Hannover was born on 23 October 1937 in

and was the second eldest child and only daughter of Otto Friedrich III, Prince of Ysenburg und Büdingen zu Wächtersbach and his wife Felicitas Anna Eleonore Cecilie, Princess

Reuss of Köstritz The Principality of Reuss-Gera (german: Fürstentum Reuß-Gera), called the Principality of the Reuss Junior Line (german: Fürstentum Reuß jüngerer Linie) after 1848, was a sovereign state in modern Germany, ruled by members of the House of Re ...

. Alexandra married Prince Welf Henry of Hanover, the fourth son of

Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick Ernest Augustus (Ernest Augustus Christian George; german: Ernst August Christian Georg; 17 November 1887 – 30 January 1953) was the reigning Duchy of Brunswick, Duke of Brunswick from 2 November 1913 to 8 November 1918. He was a grandson of Geor ...

and his wife

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, in a civil ceremony on 20 September 1960 at

Büdingen Büdingen is a town in the Wetteraukreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is mainly known for its well-preserved, heavily fortified medieval town wall and half-timbered houses. Geography Location Büdingen is in the south of the Wetterau below the Vogelsb ...

, and in a religious ceremony on the following day at the Marienkirche in Büdingen. The couple had no children. She was the aunt of

Queen Sofía of Spain Sofía of Greece and Denmark ( el, Σοφία; born 2 November 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who was List of Spanish royal consorts, Queen of Spain from 1975 to 2014 as the wife of King Juan Carlos I. She is the first child of ...

and

King Constantine II of Greece Constantine II ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Βʹ, ''Konstantínos II''; 2 June 1940) reigned as the last King of Greece, from 6 March 1964 until the abolition of the Greek monarchy on 1 June 1973. Constantine is the only son of King Paul an ...

, and grandaunt of

King Felipe VI of Spain Felipe VI (;, * eu, Felipe VI.a, * ca, Felip VI, * gl, Filipe VI, . Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Grecia; born 30 January 1968) is King of Spain. He is the son of former King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía, and ...

. She died on 1 June 2015, aged 77, three days before the death of her sister-in-law Monika, Dowager Princess of Hanover.

Professional life

Alexandra represented the Frankfurt district of Niederrad on the

Frankfurt City Council Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

since 1980. She lastly served as the Chairwoman of the Culture and Leisure Committee.

Ancestry

References

External links

Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Profile on Alexandra Prinzessin von Hannover
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