Princess Marie Alix of Schaumburg-Lippe
Princess Marie Alix of Schaumburg-Lippe was Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein as the wife of Peter, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein from 1965 to 1980.
Biography
Family
Marie Alix was the only daughter of and. Her father was a diplomat and she lived as a child in Sofia, Rome, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile. She was the niece of Adolf II, the last ruler of the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe, who abdicated following the German Revolution of 1918–1919. Marie Alix's younger brother, Prince Georg Moritz of Schaumburg-Lippe, was killed in a car accident in 1970 without marrying or having children.Marriage and issue
Marie Alix married Peter, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, third son of Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, and Princess Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, in Glücksburg on 9 October 1947. They had four children:- Princess Marita of Schleswig-Holstein, she married Wilfred Eberhard Manfred Baron von Plotho in 1975. They have two children.
- Christoph, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein, he married Princess Elisabeth of Lippe-Weissenfeld in 1981. They had four children.
- Alexander, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein, he married Barbara Fertsch in 1994. They had two children.
- Princess Ingeborg of Schleswig-Holstein, she married Nicolas Broschek in 1991. They have one child, a son.
Work
She was a co-founder of the Stiftung Louisenlund, which runs an eponymous boarding school in Güby, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She was also involved in working with the German Red Cross.Death and funeral
Princess Marie Alix of Schaumburg-Lippe died in Thumby on 1 November 2021 at the age of 98.Her funeral was held 11 November 2021 in Schleswig Cathedral and she was buried in a family crypt at the family home, Louisenlund.