Marriage and Children
In 1902, Prince Andrew met Princess Alice of Battenberg at the coronation of her grand-uncle and his aunt's husband, King Edward VII, in London. Princess Alice was a daughter of Prince Louis of Battenberg and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine. They fell in love, and the following year, on 6 October 1903, Andrew married Alice in a civil wedding at Darmstadt. The following day two religious wedding services were performed: one Lutheran in the Evangelical Castle Church, and another Greek Orthodox in the Russian Chapel on the Mathildenhöhe.
Prince and Princess Andrew had five children, all of whom later had children of their own.
| Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Princess Margarita | 18 April 1905 | 24 April 1981 | Married 1931, to Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg |
| Princess Theodora | 30 May 1906 | 16 October 1969 | Married 1931, to Prince Berthold, Margrave of Baden |
| Princess Cecilie | 22 June 1911 | 16 November 1937 | Married 1931, to Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse |
| Princess Sophie | 26 June 1914 | 24 November 2001 | Married firstly in 1930, to Prince Christoph of Hesse; secondly in 1946, to Prince George William of Hanover |
| Prince Philip | 10 June 1921 | Married 1947, to Princess Elizabeth, who became Queen Elizabeth II |
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