Duchess Anastasia Alexandrine Cecile Marie Luise Wilhelmine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Full German

German language

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 name: Anastasia Alexandrine Cecile Marie Luise Wilhelmine Herzogin zu Mecklenburg-Schwerin), (11 November 1923, Gelbensande

Gelbensande

Gelbensande is a municipality in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It is located in the Rostock district, near Rostock, Ribnitz-Damgarten and Stralsund. Four other villages are part of Gelbensande.Gelbensande is about from the Baltic Sea coast...

, Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

The Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was a state in the Weimar Republic that was established in 1918 following the abdication of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin following the German Revolution...

, Weimar Republic

Weimar Republic

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 – 25 January 1979, Hamburg

Hamburg

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, West Germany

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). Anastasia was the youngest child and youngest daughter of Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Frederick Francis IV was the last Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and regent of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.-Early life:...

 and his wife Princess Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland

Princess Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland

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Marriage and issue

Anastasia married Prince Friedrich Ferdinand of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

Prince Friedrich Ferdinand of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

Prince Friedrich Ferdinand of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg ,...

, youngest son of Prince Albrecht of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

Prince Albrecht of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

Prince Albrecht of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg was the fifth and youngest child of Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and his wife Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe and was a nephew of Christian IX of Denmark...

 and his wife Countess Ortrud of Ysenburg and Büdingen, on 1 September 1943 at Willigrad bei Schwerin. Friedrich Ferdinand and Anastasia had four daughters:

• HH Princess Elisabeth Marie Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (born 10 September 1945)

∞ HSH Prince Ferdinand Heinrich of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wachtersbach on 2 January 1975

HSH Prince Johann Georg of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wachtersbach (born 8 July 1976)

HSH Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Wachtersbach (born 6 February 1979)

• HH Princess Irene Olga Adelheid of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (born 11 October 1946)
• HH Princess Margaretha Friederike Luise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (born 10 February 1948)
• HH Princess Sibylla Ursula Ortrude of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (11 September 1955)

∞ Dieter Franz on 25 October 1980

Frithjof Franz (born 22 April 1981)

Johanna Franz (born 10 March 1983)

Philipp Franz (born 1 April 1986)

Titles and styles

• 11 November 1923 – 1 September 1943: Her Highness Duchess Anastasia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
• 1 September 1943 – 25 January 1979: Her Highness Princess Friedrich Ferdinand of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

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