Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg

Full name
	Marie Antoinette Margarethe Mathilde

Duchess Marie Antoinette
Duchess Marie Antoinette
Born	28 May 1884; Venice
Died	26 October 1944 (aged 60); Bled, Yugoslavia
Full name
	Marie Antoinette Margarethe Mathilde
House	House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ; (by birth)
Father	Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg
Mother	Princess Marie of Windisch-Graetz

Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, also Manette (Marie Antoinette Margarethe Mathilde; 28 May 1884 – 26 October 1944) was the second daughter of Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg and the Austrian-born Princess Marie of Windisch-Graetz.

Life

Her brothers and sisters were Duke Paul Friedrich of Mecklenburg (1882–1904), Duchess Maria Luise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1883–1883), Duke Heinrich Borwin of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1885–1942), and Duke Joseph of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1889–1889). Marie Antoinette had a difficult relationship with her cousin Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, who regularly had to amortize her debts. So, Marie Antoinette regularly had to sell archaeological artifacts belonging to her mother, excavated in Austria and Carniola, including Hallstatt Archaeological Site in Vače. Some of these objects are still today in Harvard, Oxford and Berlin. She regularly remained with her court lady Baroness Antonia Pilars de Pilar in Bled. During World War I from 1914 to 1918 they both served in several military hospitals as red cross ladies.

She was German Kaiser Wilhelm II's candidate for a bride for King Alfonso XIII of Spain although he would marry the Kaiser's maternal first cousin, Princess Victoria Eugenie, niece of British King Edward VII.[1]

Titles and styles

28 May 1884 – 26 October 1944: Her Highness Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Ancestry

Ancestors of Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg

8. Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg

4. Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg

9. Princess Alexandrine of Prussia

2. Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg

10. Prince Heinrich LXIII of Reuss-Köstritz

5. Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz

11. Countess Eleonore of Stolberg-Wernigerode

1. Duke Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

12. Weriand, Prince of Windisch-Grätz

6. Hugo, Prince of Windisch-Grätz

13. Princess Eleonore of Lobkowicz

3. Princess Marie of Windisch-Grätz

14. Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg = 8

7. Duchess Luise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

15. Princess Alexandrine of Prussia = 9

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References

Pilapil, Vicente R. (1969). "Alfonso XIII".

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[1] Pilapil, Vicente R. (1969). "Alfonso XIII".