Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (Karoline Luise; 18 July 1786 – 20 January 1816) was a princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin by virtue of her marriage. She was the daughter of Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt. InfancyCaroline was born at the Stadtschloss in Weimar on 18 July 1786 as the princess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach by birth. The second of three children to reach adulthood, her older brother Charles Frederick succeeded their father as Grand Duke in 1828. One of Caroline's nieces was Empress Augusta of Germany, wife of William I, German Emperor. Hereditary Grand DuchessOn 1 July 1810, she became the second wife of Frederick Ludwig, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The Hereditary Grand Duke had lost his first wife Elena Pavlovna of Russia in September 1804 having died of influenza. Caroline Louise gave her husband three children. Her only daughter married son of Louis Philippe I of the French. She had a loving relationship with her husband.[citation needed] After the birth of her youngest child, Prince Magnus, her health never recovered and she died aged 29 at the Schloss Ludwigslust. In her deathbed, she suggested her husband remarry to her cousin Auguste Fredericka, daughter of Frederick V of Hesse-Homburg; they married in April 1818. Issue
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