Marriage
On 17 September 1924 she married Prince Wolfgang of Hesse (1896–1989), the heir of the would-be King of Finland.
Princess Marie Alexandra was killed during an air-raid on Frankfurt am Main in World War II.
Read more about this topic: Princess Marie Alexandra Of Baden
Famous quotes containing the word marriage:
“What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“There is a time for all things—Except Marriage my dear.”
—Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770)
“Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the family. Unlike Judaism, it kept almost no rituals that took place in private homes. The esteem that monasticism and priestly celibacy enjoyed implied a denigration of marriage and parenthood.”
—Beatrice Gottlieb, U.S. historian. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age, ch. 12, Oxford University Press (1993)