Monday, February 23, 2009

Duke Ernst Gunther of Schleswig-Holstein

February 23, 1921

Duke Ernst Gunther of Schleswig-Holstein died yesterday at his home in Primenkau, Silesia. He was the brother of the former German Empress Auguste Viktoria. According to the doctors who are treating the Kaiserin, she has not been informed about her brother's death, due to the frailty of her own health.
The Duke was married in 1898 to Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. They had no children. The new duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg is the late duke's first cousin, Albert.
Duke Albert, is the second son of the late Prince Christian and his wife Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, a daughter of Queen Victoria. Duke Albert, who is a first cousin to the former Kaiser Wilhelm II and Britain's King George V, is unmarried.

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