Elisabeth | |||||
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Princess Max of Bavaria, Duchess in Bavaria | |||||
Born |
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31 December 1940 ||||
Spouse | Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria (m. 1967) | ||||
Issue |
Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein Marie Caroline, Duchess Philipp of Württemberg Duchess Helena Duchess Elisabeth, Mrs. Terberger Duchess Maria Anna, Baroness von Maltzan |
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House | Douglas | ||||
Father | Count Carl Ludvig Douglas | ||||
Mother | Ottora Maria Haas-Heye |
Full name | |
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Elisabeth Christina |
Bavarian royal family |
HRH The Duke in Bavaria
HRH The Dowager Princess of Waldburg Extended family members
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HRH The Duke in Bavaria
HRH The Duchess in Bavaria
HRH The Dowager Princess of Waldburg
HRH The Dowager Princess of Quadt
HRH The Dowager Duchess of Croÿ
HRH The Dowager Duchess of Arenberg
HRH Princess Helene
Princess Elisabeth, Duchess in Bavaria (born 31 December 1940) is the wife of Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria, heir presumptive to both the former Bavarian Royal House and the Jacobite Succession.
Elisabeth was born at , Sweden, on 31 December 1940. She was the first daughter of Count Carl Ludvig Douglas and Ottora Maria Haas-Heye. She was granddaughter of General Vilhelm Archibald Douglas. Her maternal great-grandfather was Philip, Prince of Eulenburg and Hertefeld (1847–1921) (friend of Wilhelm II, German Emperor), whose youngest child Viktoria Ada Astrid Agnes (1886–1967) married in 1909 Professor Otto Ludwig Haas-Heye (1879–1959), and had issue, including two daughters. Elisabeth descends through both her mother and father from medieval Scandinavian nobility and rulers. However, her father's patrilineal ancestry is Scottish, of the Swedish-German branch, descended via two obscure generations, descended from the youngest son of James Douglas, 1st Baron of Dalkeith, ancestor of the 15th century Earls of Morton. All these Douglases were of the Morton branch of the ancient Douglas family. Her younger sister Rosita married in 1972 to John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough but divorced in 2008.