Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg (baptised Victoria Marie Augustine Louise Antoinette Caroline Leopoldine; 8 May 1878 – 14 October 1948) was the eldest daughter of Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt.
Read more about Duchess Marie Of Mecklenburg: Early Life, First Marriage, Second Marriage, Ancestors
Famous quotes containing the words duchess and/or marie:
“Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
“History should be written as philosophy.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)