About Duchess Olga of Württemberg
Lived 1876 – 1932 (aged 56). Duchess Olga of Württemberg was a German aristocrat.
Duchess Olga of Württemberg (; 1 March 1876 – 21 October 1932) was a daughter of Duke Eugen of Württemberg and Grand Duchess Vera Constantinovna of Russia. She married Prince Maximilian of Schaumburg-Lippe.
Early life and family Princess Olga was born at Stuttgart, Württemberg on 1 March 1876. She was the younger twin daughter of Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1846–1877), and Grand Duchess Vera Constantinovna of Russia (1854–1912). Her father was chosen by Charles I of Württemberg (a distant relative) as a husband for her mother, who was Charles' and Queen Olga's niece and adopted daughter.
Her elder brother, Duke Charles-Eugen of Württemberg, died young in 1875. Her older twin was Duchess Elsa of Württemberg (1876–1936), who married her husband's brother, Prince Albert of Schaumburg-Lippe. The twin sisters did not look alike and Olga, who was much taller than her sister, seemed to be the elder of the two.
Her paternal grandparents were Duke Eugen of Württemberg, and Princess Mathilde of Schaumburg-Lippe. Her maternal grandparents were Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia and Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg.
Prince Eugen of Schaumburg-Lippe (8 August 1899 – 6 November 1929), who died unmarried at age 30 at Caterham, Surrey, England, in a plane crash. Prince Albrecht of Schaumburg-Lippe (17 October 1900 – 20 May 1984), who married Baroness Walburga von Hirschberg (1906–1986) in 1930. They had no children, however; he had a daughter with Baroness Marie-Gabriele von Pfetten-Arnbach (1927–2015). Prince Bernhard of Schaumburg-Lippe (8 December 1902 – 24 June 1903), who died in infancy.
Prince Maximilian died on 1 April 1904. Olga died on 21 October 1932.
Descendants Through her second son Albrecht, she was posthumously the grandmother of Andrea of Schaumburg-Lippe (b. 1960), who married Count Franz von Degenfeld-Schonburg on 4 September 1993. They had three children.
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German duchess (1876-1932)
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Duchess Olga of Württemberg was born on 1 March 1876 in Stuttgart.
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Duchess Olga of Württemberg died on 21 October 1932 in Ludwigsburg.
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Duchess Olga of Württemberg was an aristocrat.
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