Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden

Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden
Princess Wolfgang of Hesse
Spouse	Prince Wolfgang of Hesse
Full name
Marie Alexandra Thyra Victoria Louise Carola Hilda
Father	Prince Maximilian of Baden
Mother	Princess Marie Louise of Hanover and Cumberland
Born	1 August 1902(1902-08-01) Salem, Baden-Württemberg
Died	29 January 1944(1944-01-29) (aged 41) Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany

Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden (Marie Alexandra Thyra Victoria Louise Carola Hilda) (1 August 1902 in Salem – 29 January 1944 in Frankfurt am Main) was a Princess and Landgravine of Hesse and wife of the designated Crown Prince of Finland.

Family

She was born as the daughter of Prince Maximilian of Baden (1867–1929) and Princess Marie Louise of Hanover and Cumberland. Her paternal grandparents were the late Prince Wilhelm of Baden (1829–97) and Princess Maria of Leuchtenberg (1841–1914). Maria of Leuchtenberg was a daughter of Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817–52) and Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna (1819–76), the eldest daughter of Nicholas I of Russia.

Princess Marie-Louise of Hanover (1879–1948) was a daughter of the late Ernest August, 3rd Duke of Cumberland, claimant of the annexed Kingdom of Hanover, and Thyra of Denmark (1853–1933), youngest daughter of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse, Marie Alexandra's husband's great-aunt. Marie Alexandra's grandmother Thyra was a sister of Empress Maria Fedorovna and aunt of Nicholas II of Russia, the last Romanov tsar.

Marriage

On 17 September 1924 she married Prince Wolfgang of Hesse (1896–1989), the heir of the would-be King of Finland.

Princess Marie Alexandra was killed in an air-raid on Frankfurt in World War II.

Ancestry

Persondata
Name	Marie Alexandra of Baden
Alternative names	Marie Alexandra Thyra Victoria Louise Carola Hilda von Zähringen
Short description	Princess and Landgravine of Hesse
Date of birth	1 August 1902
Place of birth	Salem
Date of death	29 January 1944
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main