Princess Saskia of Hanover

Infobox Hanoverian Royalty|highness
name =Princess Saskia
title =Princess Saskia, Mrs. Edward Hoope


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spouse = Michael Naylor-Leyland (married 1990)
Edward Hoope (2001 - present)
issue = Jake John Naylor-Leyland
Gabriel George Naylor-Leyland
full name = Tania Saskia Victoria-Louise
" _de. Tania Saskia Viktoria-Luise"cite web | url=http://thepeerage.com/p10398.htm#i103978| title=Tania Saskia Viktoria-Luise Prinzessin von Hannover | date=1 July 2003 | accessdate=2008-07-21 | publisher= [http://thePeerage.com thePeerage.com] | author=Darryl Lundy]
titles ="HRH" Princess Saskia, Mrs. Edward Hoope
"HRH" Princess Saskia, Mrs. Michael Naylor-Leyland
"HRH" Princess Saskia of Hanover
royal house =House of Hanover
father =Prince Welf Ernst of Hanover
mother =Wibke van Gunsteren
date of birth =Birth date and age|1970|07|24|df=yes
place of birth = Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Princess Saskia of Hanover ("German: Tania Saskia Viktoria-Luise Prinzessin von Hannover"), Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (born 24 July 1970 at Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is the only child of the late Prince Welf Ernst of Hanover and his wife Wibke van Gunsteren. Through her grandmother, Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, Saskia is a grand-niece of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Early life

Saskia's parents Prince Welf and Princess Wibke became followers of a religious sect led by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.cite web | url=http://wissen.spiegel.de/wissen/dokument/dokument.html?id=14316328&top=SPIEGEL| title=Ein Welfe im Nirwana: Der Tod eines deutschen Prinzen, der für Bhagwan lebte | date=3 February 1981 | accessdate=2008-09-20 | publisher= [http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/ Der Spiegel] | author=Wilhelm Bittorf] When Saskia was five, the family relocated to the sect's ashram in Poona, India. After her father's death in 1981, Saskia and her mother moved with Bhagwan and the sect to the Rajneeshpuram compound in Oregon. After several years at Rajneeshpuram, Saskia's paternal grandparents Prince George William of Hanover and Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark were able to send her to England to attend school.

Marriage and issue

Saskia's first husband was Michael Alexander Robert Naylor-Leylandcite web | url=http://www.geocities.com/henrivanoene/genhanover2.html| title=HRH Prince Georg Wilhelm and his descendants | date=22 October 2001 | accessdate=2008-08-18 | publisher= [http://www.geocities.com/henrivanoene/ Henri van Oene's Royal Genealogies Page] | author=Henri van Oene] (born 14 July 1956 in Londoncite web | url=http://organization-xiii.net/lynsey/royals/aqwg36.htm#266| title=Descendants of Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland: Seventh Generation | date=08 May 2007 | accessdate=2008-08-18 | publisher= [http://organization-xiii.net/lynsey/royals/ Descendants of Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland] | author=Lynsey Ayers] ), son of Alick David Yorke Naylor-Leyland and Diana Elizabeth Lea Galway, whom she married on 6 July 1990. The couple had two children:
*"Jake" John Naylor-Leyland (born 22 September 1993 at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London)
*"Gabriel" George Naylor-Leyland (born 26 March 1996 at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London)

She married her second husband, Edward Hoope, on 27 January 2001.

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

*"Her Royal Highness" Princess Tania of Hanover, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg
*"Her Royal Highness" Princess Saskia of Hanover, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg
*"Her Royal Highness" Princess Saskia of Hanover, Mrs. Michael Naylor-Leyland, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg
*"Her Royal Highness" Princess Saskia of Hanover, Mrs. Edward Hoope, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Ancestry

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1=1. Princess Saskia of Hanover
2=2. Prince Welf Ernst of Hanover
3=3. Wibke van Gunsteren
4=4. Prince George William of Hanover
5=5. Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark
6=6. Harry van Gunsteren
7=7. Ursula Schmidt-Prange
8=8. Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick
9=9. Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia
10=10. Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark
11=11. Princess Alice of Battenberg
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16=16. Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover
17=17. Princess Thyra of Denmark
18=18. Wilhelm II, German Emperor
19=19. Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein
20=20. George I of Greece
21=21. Olga Constantinovna of Russia
22=22. Prince Louis of Battenberg
23=23. Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
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