Duchess Therese Petrovna of Oldenburg

Duchess Therese Wilhelmine Olga Friederike of Oldenburg (30 March 1852 – 19 April 1883) was the youngest daughter of Duke Peter Georgievich of Oldenburg and his wife Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg.

Marriage

On 12 May 1879, Therese married Prince George Maximilianovich Romanovsky (1852–1912), youngest son of Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg and his wife Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia. Thus despite her German title, Duchess Therese, like her brother Duke Alexander and their father before them, had grown up entirely in Russia.

Issue Therese and George had one son, HIH Despite being the senior descendant of Eugène de Beauharnais (son of Empress Joséphine), Alexander was far from rich, and served as a captain of the Russian Hussars of the guard and as an aide-de-camp to the Emperor.

Later life Various sources attribute George to have been good-looking but a "stupid and rather sorry individual", although these reports were most often in connection with his second wife, Princess Anastasia of Montenegro, who, when arranging her divorce from George, was widely reported to want to do so because she could no longer live with a man of "intolerable stupidity".

In July 1881, the British Reserve Squadron held entertainments on board , which was stationed in Kronstadt.

Death Duchess Therese died on 19 April 1883 in Saint Petersburg. Six years after her death, George remarried to Princess Anastasia of Montenegro.

Ancestry