Wilhelmine von Hessen-Kassel (1726-1808)
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- Name (English)
- Wilhelmine von Hessen-Kassel
- Short name
- Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel
- Year of birth
- 1726
- Year of death
- 1808
- Short Description
- "Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel (25 February 1726 – 8 October 1808) was a Prussian princess, married to Prince Henry of Prussia.
Wilhelmina was the daughter of Prince Maximilian of Hesse-Kassel and Friederike Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, and the niece of William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and King Frederick I of Sweden. She was introduced to Henry when he visited Kassel in 1751 and was married to him 25 June 1752.
Wilhelmina was described as a charming beauty. Wilhelmina and Henry had their own court and lived at Schloss Rheinsberg and Berlin. Wilhelmina had no children with Henry, who was reported to pay more attention to his male friends than to her. The couple separated in 1766 after an alleged affair on Wilhelmina´s side. After the separation, she lived at Palais Unter den Linden in Berlin, where she was served by successive members of the von Blumenthal family (Amalia, Charlotte, Marie-Thérèse and Leopoldine) as ladies-in-waiting ." - (en.wikipedia.org 09.06.2020) - Entity Encoding
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