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Duke Alexander von Wuerttemberg
(1804-1885)
He would have
become King of Wurttemberg had he not forfeited his
rights through
his morganatic marriage. However, on 2 May 1835 in
Vienna, he married
the beautiful Hungarian Countess Claudine Rhedey de
Kis-Rhede and
they became the parents of three children. As the
marriage was
morganatic, she received the title of Countess von
Hohenstein.
They had been married for only six years when she was
trampled to
death by a squadron of cavalry led by her husband, her
horse having
bolted while she was watching them gallop past at some
manoeuvres.
Duke Alexander never really recovered from the shock of
this terrible
tragedy.
Source: Leo van de Pas |
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