Princess Antoinette of Anhalt

Princess Antoinette
Princess Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe
Born	(1885-03-03)3 March 1885 Schloss Georgium, Dessau, Anhalt
Died	3 April 1963(1963-04-03) (aged 78) Dessau, East Germany
Burial	Ziebigk cemetery, Dessau
Spouse	Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe ​ ​ (m. 1909; died 1945)​
Issue	Prince Leopold Prince Wilhelm
Names German: Antoinette Anna Alexandra Marie Luise Agnes Elisabeth Auguste Friederike
House	Ascania
Father	Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt
Mother	Princess Elisabeth of Hesse-Kassel

Princess Antoinette of Anhalt (German: Antoinette Anna Alexandra Marie Luise Agnes Elisabeth Auguste Friederike; 3 March 1885 – 3 April 1963) was a Princess of Anhalt by birth. As the wife of Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe, she became a Princess of Schaumburg-Lippe by marriage.

Princess Antoinette was born on 3 March 1885 at Schloss Georgium, near Dessau in the Duchy of Anhalt. Her parents were Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt and Princess Elisabeth of Hesse-Kassel (1861-1955).

Less than one year after the birth of his daughter, Leopold died unexpectedly in Cannes on 2 February 1886.

Princess Elisabeth never remarried and survived her husband by almost 70 years. She died in Dessau on 7 June 1955, aged 93.^[1]

Princess Antoinette married Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe as his second wife in Dessau on 26 May 1909. They had two sons:

• Prince Leopold Friedrich Alexander Wilhelm Eduard of Schaumburg-Lippe (21 February 1910 – 25 January 2006)
• Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Adolf Leopold Hilderich of Schaumburg-Lippe (24 August 1912 – 4 March 1938)

Prince Wilhelm Friedrich died in 1938 at the age of 25, when his bomber aircraft crashed during military exercises at Neubrandenburg.^[2]

Princess Antoinette died in Dessau, then in the German Democratic Republic, on 3 April 1963, aged aged 78. She was buried at the Ziebigk cemetery in Dessau next to her mother.^[3]