, title = Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein , house =

Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg The House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg () was a branch of the dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg of the House of Oldenburg. The line descended from Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg. Like all of the secondary ...

, spouse = , issue = Victoria Adelaide, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Alexandra Victoria, Princess August Wilhelm of Prussia
Helena Adelaide, Princess Harald of Denmark
Adelaide, Princess of Solms-Baruth

Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein '' , title = Duke of Schleswig-Holstein , reign = 21 January 1934 – 10 February 1965 , reign-type = Tenure , predecessor = Friedrich Ferdinand , successor = Peter II , succession = Head of the House of Schleswig-Hols ...

Karoline Mathilde, Countess Hans of Solms-Baruth , image = Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.jpg , birth_date = , birth_place = Augustenborg,

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Duchy of Schleswig The Duchy of Schleswig ( da, Hertugdømmet Slesvig; german: Herzogtum Schleswig; nds, Hartogdom Sleswig; frr, Härtochduum Slaswik) was a duchy in Southern Jutland () covering the area between about 60 km (35 miles) north and 70 km ...

, death_date = , death_place = Grünholz Castle, Thumby,

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, father =

Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein '' , house = Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg , father = Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg , mother = Countess Louise Sophie Danneskiold-Samsøe , birth_date = , birth_place = Augustenburg ...

, mother =

Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (20 July 1835 – 25 January 1900) was Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein, a niece of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, first cousin of King Edward VII, and the mother-in-law of Emperor Wilhelm II of Ge ...

Princess Caroline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (Viktoria Friederike Auguste Marie Caroline Mathilde; 25 January 1860 – 20 February 1932) was the second-eldest daughter of

and his wife

Family

Caroline Mathilde's elder sister, Augusta Viktoria was German Empress and Queen of Prussia as the wife of

Wilhelm II, German Emperor Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor (german: Kaiser) and King of Prussia, reigning from 15 June 1888 until his abdication on 9 November 1918. Despite strengthening the German Emp ...

. Karoline Mathilde was Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and later Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein as the wife of Friedrich Ferdinand. Caroline's maternal grandmother Princess Feodora of Leiningen was the

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Marriage and issue

Caroline Mathilde married Friedrich Ferdinand, the eldest son of Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe and a nephew of

Christian IX of Denmark Christian IX (8 April 181829 January 1906) was King of Denmark from 1863 until his death in 1906. From 1863 to 1864, he was concurrently Duke of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg. A younger son of Frederick William, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein- ...

, on 19 March 1885 at Primkenau. Friedrich Ferdinand and Caroline Mathilde had six children: * Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (31 December 1885 – 3 October 1970) * Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (21 April 1887 – 15 April 1957) * Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1 June 1888 – 30 June 1962) * Princess Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (19 October 1889 – 11 June 1964) *

(23 August 1891 – 10 February 1965) *

Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg '' , house = Glücksburg , father = Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg , mother = Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg , birth_date = , birth_place =Grü ...

(11 May 1894 – 28 January 1972) After the overthrow of the Hohenzollern dynasty at the end of

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

, Caroline and her family lived quietly, seldom seen outside Grünholz Castle. Caroline died on 20 February 1932, aged 72, at their castle. A few years previously, she had suffered an attack of heart disease and never completely recovered. Her husband was the only family member present on her deathbed.

Ancestry

References

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