Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe

Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe (; 20 July 1859 – 9 July 1916) was a German prince of the House of Schaumburg-Lippe and a Prussian General of the Cavalry. He was regent of the Principality of Lippe from 1895 to 1897 due to the incapacity of his distant relative, Alexander, Prince of Lippe.

Early life Prince Adolf was born on 20 July 1859 at Bückeburg Palace in Bückeburg, the capital of the small Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe in central Germany, during the reign of his paternal grandfather, George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe. He was the seventh child and fourth son of Adolf, Hereditary Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1817–1893) and Princess Hermine of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1827–1910), a daughter of George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont. She was a daughter of the late Frederick III, German Emperor, and his widow, Empress Victoria. As such, Adolf was a brother-in-law to the last German Emperor, Wilhelm II, as well as a grandson-in-law of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. The wedding was attended by Kaiser Wilhelm, along with his wife, Empress Augusta Viktoria, and Victoria's mother, the dowager empress of Germany.

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Book Cited (a biography of George V)