Princess Marie of Baden (1817-1888)

Princess Marie of Baden (1817-1888)

Marie Amelie Elizabeth Caroline of Baden, (11 October 1817 in Karlsruhe – 17 October, 1888 in Baden-Baden) was the yougest daughter of Karl, Grand Duke of Baden and Stephanie de Beauharnais, the adopted daughter of Napoleon I of France.

On 23 February 1843 in Mannheim, she married a Scottish nobleman, William Hamilton, Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale. They had two son and one daughter.

* William Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton, married Lady Mary Montagu
* Lieutenant Charles George Douglas-Hamilton, 7th Earl of Selkirk, 11th Hussars
* Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton, married (1) Albert I, Prince of Monaco; (2) Tassilo Festetics de Tolna.

After her wedding, she relocated to Brodick Castle on the Isle of Arran and then later on Hamilton Palace in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Her husband succeeded as Duke of Hamilton upon the death of her father-in-law in 1852. She converted to Roman Catholicism in 1855.

She was styled Marie Amelie, Princess of Baden, Dowager Duchess of Hamilton after her husband's death in 1863.

Through her daughter, she is the great-great-grandmother of the current reigning prince of Monaco, Albert II.


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