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Ernest Louis, German in full Ernst Ludwig Karl Albrecht Wilhelm, (born November 25, 1868, Darmstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt [Germany]—died October 9, 1937, near Darmstadt), grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1892 until his abdication in 1918, at the end of World War I. His father was the grand duke Louis IV, whom he succeeded on March 13, 1892, and his mother was Princess Alice, daughter of Queen ...

Ernst Ludwig, destined to be the last Grand Duke of Hesse und bei Rhein, was born in November of 1868. He was one of seven children born to the future Grand Duke Ludwig IV and Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland, second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the Prince Consort. He was preceded by three sisters-Victoria, born in ...

Princess Elisabeth of Prussia. Louis IV ( German: Ludwig IV; 12 September 1837 – 13 March 1892) was the Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 13 June 1877 until his death in 1892. Through his marriage to Queen Victoria 's second daughter Alice, he was connected to the British royal family. Two of his daughters married into the House of Romanov .

{{stack| Ernest Louis Charles Albert William (German language: Ernst Ludwig Karl Albrecht Wilhelm; 25 November 1868 – 9 October 1937) was the last Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, reigning from 1892 until 1918. Ernest Louis was the elder son of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and ...

Ernst Ludwig Karl Albrecht Wilhelm was the last Grandduke of Hesse and by Rhine. On 19 April 1894 Ernest Louis married his first cousin, Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha,in Coburg, on the encouragement of their mutual grandmother, Queen Victoria. The marriage was not a happy one, due to his alleged homosexuality.

Birth 20 November 1908 Darmstadt, Death 30 May 1968 Frankfurt am Main, Parents Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse + Princess Eleanore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich

Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1868-1937) "Ernst Ludwig Karl Albrecht Wilhelm" Prince Albert, Queen Victoria & Their Family (1800-1918) | Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1868-1937)

Following the abdication of the last grand duke, Ernest Louis, in 1918, Hesse became a republic and one of the constituent states of the Weimar Republic of postwar Germany. In 1945 the territory east of the Rhine was in the U.S. occupation zone and became part of the Land of Greater Hesse (later called simply Hessen), while the rest became part ...