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Princess Luise Margarete of Prussia (1860-1917)
Born 25 June 1860 Potsdam 
Died 14 March 1917 London 
Married 13 March 1879 Windsor 
Prince Arthur of Great Britain and Ireland, 1st Duke of 
Connaught and Strathearn, son of Victoria, Queen of Great 
Britain and Ireland 1837-1901 and Prince Albert of 
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony, Prince Consort 
Born 1 May 1850 London, Buckingham Palace 
Died 16 January 1942 Bagshot Park 
 

She must have been glad to leave her Prussian home which had never been congenial. Timid but self-possessed, she was fortunate to have married the most honorable of Queen Victoria's sons. However, Queen Victoria at first could not understand him falling so quickly for this child of a broken home; she was not even attractive. "I had to give way of course," Queen Victoria wrote in her Journal, "but it was a great shock." But soon the Queen praised 'Louischen' for her 
profile and Arthur for rescuing a girl who was desperately unhappy at home. Disraeli, who met Luise Margarete at the Berlin Congress, wrote almost lyrically about her lovely eyes and complexion, fine brow and 'singularly beautiful hands'. 
They became the parents of one son and two daughters. In 1911,when her husband was appointed Governor-General of Canada, she accompanied him to Ottawa. Their younger daughter, Princess Patricia, who also had accompanied them, fell in love with one of her husband's aide-de-camps, the Hon. Alexander Ramsay. However, it was only after her mother's death that Princess Patricia obtained permission to marry. 

Source: Leo van de Pas
 

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