Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, was the eldest child and only son of George V of Hanover and his wife, Marie of Saxe-Altenburg. Ernest Augustus was deprived of the throne of Hanover upon its
Ernest Augustus in 1900
King George V and Queen Marie of Hanover and their children Ernest Augustus, Frederica and Marie in 1855.
The young crown prince with his blind father in Hanover in the 1860s.
The newlyweds depart Copenhagen Central Station after the wedding in 1878.
Ernest Augustus was Duke of Brunswick from 2 November 1913 to 8 November 1918. He was a grandson of George V of Hanover, thus a Prince of Hanover and a Prince of the United Kingdom. He was also a mate
Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover
…Albert of Mecklenburg was appointed as regent. Ernest Augustus was partially reconciled with the Hohenzollern dynasty in 1913, when his surviving son, Ernest Augustus, married Victoria Louise, the only daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the grandson of the Prussian king who had deposed his father. On 24 October 1913, he…
Ernest Augustus c. 1921–22
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Victoria Louise in 1909, as Honorary Colonel of the II. Prussian Life Hussars Regiment
Brunswick Palace