Baron Alphons von Pawel-Rammingen


Baron Luitbert Alexander George Lionel Alphons von Pawel-Rammingen, was a German nobleman who became a naturalised British subject in 1880 when he married Princess Frederica of Hanover.

Life

Pawel-Rammingen was born on 27 July 1843, the eldest son of Karl Julius August Plato Emil, Baron von Pawel-Rammingen and his wife, Baroness Luitgarde von Friesen : he had an elder sister, Anna who married in 1862 to Baron Oswald von Coburg, the son of Ludwig Frederick Emil Freiherr von Coburg, himself an illegitimate son of Prince Ludwig Karl Friedrich of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Alphons also had a younger brother, Baron Paul Julius August Plato Sylvester Albert, who was married to a Hungarian noblewoman, Baroness Gizella Babárczy de Babárcz and had issue.
On 24 April 1880, Pawel-Rammingen married Princess Frederica Sophia Maria of Hanover, daughter of King George V of Hanover at St George's Chapel, Windsor; he became a naturalised British Subject by Act of Parliament on 19 March 1880. In the same year, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and in 1897, Queen Victoria also appointed him a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. He was also appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of Hanover. In the United Kingdom, he was Honorary Colonel of the 6th Battalion of the Essex Regiment. Alfons and Frederica had one daughter who was born and died at Hampton Court Palace, where the couple had grace-and-favour apartment:

Death

He became a widower in 1926, and died in Biarritz on 20 November 1932, at the age of 89, outliving his spouse for 6 years. He was buried in the Du Sabaou cemetery, Biarritz, France, while his wife, Princess Frederica of Hanover, was buried alongside their daughter Victoria, in the Royal Vault, St.George's Chapel, Windsor, United Kingdom.