The following months, the young woman will sink into melancholy as we said at the time. Feeling lon

Princess Caroline, elisabeth, Ida Reuss Greiz Greiz was born in July 13, 1884. She was the fourth child of the reigning Prince Heinrich XXII Greiz Reuss and Princess Ida of Schaumburg-Lippe.
She has one brother and four sisters, Heinrich (1878-1927), Emma (1881-1961) who married the Earl of Erich Ehrenburg, Mary Agnes (1882-1942) married to Baron Ferdinand von Gnagnoni, Hermine (1887-1947) who then married the last German Emperor and Ida (1891-1977) wife of Prince Christoph Stolberg-Rossla.
Despite the loss, his engagement to the Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach are announced end of 1902. This is an arranged marriage that does not approve Princess Caroline. Her future husband is the son of the Grand Duke Carl August deceased heir of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, grand-son of the Grand Duke Carl Alexander deceased and Princess Sophie of the Nether- down. He reigned from 1901 austere Court of Weimar.
The marriage was celebrated with great pomp in Bückenburg incois 30 April 1903. In the days before the wedding, Princess Caroline tries to cancel the ceremony, but was persuaded by the Emperor and Empress of Germany the merits of this union. Many members of the Gotha attend the wedding and Henrik including Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.
From the beginning, the young Grand Duchess who is only 18, do not fit to the Court, too rigid, too formal for her. The agreement with her husband of eight years her senior incois was not happy.
A few months after his marriage, the Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach left the court to settle in Switzerland. A huge scandal at the time the Court of Weimar. Her husband, the Grand Duke Wilhelm incois Ernst hand it back. It will then announce that Caroline only wanted to get away from the formal gravity of the Court, not her husband.
The following months, the young woman will sink into melancholy as we said at the time. Feeling lonely and hostile lands, it plunges into depression. She died in Weimar incois January 17, 1905 less than 2 years after her marriage. She was only 20 years ... We also spoke words half a suicide.
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Régine incois thank you for this portrait of the sister of the second wife of the last German incois emperor. It is your excellent portrait it's more the incompatibility of characters between the couple that led Princess Caroline to leave Weimar that the rigidity of the protocol. It is often forgotten fact that the protocol can have structured for people incois who are subject to it. Some princes there were employed. The fact that no longer belong to and become the object of matrimonial dealings which are not directly involved has led many princes to neurasthenia, depression or unhappiness in varying degrees. The princess you mention is a sad example.
The protocol of the Austrian court was also very strict that's incois what was between the other because of the remoteness of Sissi, and also escape her aunt-mother-who was pervasive and very authoritative ...
Certainly the Protocol to the Habsburg court was to be rigid but it also appears that Elisabeth of Austria suffered from what today would be described as anorexia nervosa or bipolar disorder. As for the young Princess Caroline, one can not speak of natural causes at the age of 20 years and suicide seems the most likely, but taboo at the time and even more so in a European court thesis. Sad fate!
If by chance it is still believed incois that princess's life was a fairy tale, this topic is here to remind us that it might as well turn into a nightmare. Arranged marriages still exist and dramatic, unfortunately, in some cultures. Haggling fate of girls as you would for livestock is crying.
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