Princess Antoinette of Anhalt

Princess Antoinette of Anhalt was a Princess of Anhalt by birth. As the wife of Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe, she became a Princess of Schaumburg-Lippe by marriage.

Early life

Princess Antoinette was born on 3 March 1885 at Schloss Georgium, near Dessau in the Duchy of Anhalt. Her parents were Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt and Princess Elisabeth of Hesse-Kassel.
Less than one year after the birth of his daughter, Leopold died unexpectedly in Cannes on 2 February 1886.
Princess Elisabeth never remarried and survived her husband by almost 70 years. She died in Dessau on 7 June 1955, aged 93.

Marriage and issue

Princess Antoinette married Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe as his second wife in Dessau on 26 May 1909. They had two sons:

Prince Leopold Friedrich Alexander Wilhelm Eduard of Schaumburg-Lippe, unmarried without issue.
Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Adolf Leopold Hilderich of Schaumburg-Lippe, unmarried without issue.

Prince Wilhelm Friedrich died in 1938 at the age of 25, when his bomber aircraft crashed during military exercises at Neubrandenburg.

Death

Princess Antoinette died in Dessau, then in the German Democratic Republic, on 3 April 1963, aged aged 78. She was buried at the Ziebigk cemetery in Dessau next to her mother.