Princess Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, was born on 31 August 1880 in The Hague, Netherlands.

Sophia was the youngest daughter of Wilhelm, Duke of Nassau, by his second wife Princess Pauline Friederica Marie of Württemberg.

Her godparents were Ferdinando Paer and Princess Pauline Galitsin, who provided her with her middle names.

* Louis and Pauline Ducruet, children of Princess Stéphanie and Daniel Ducruet

By this marriage, she has two stepdaughters, the twins Princess Henriette Reuss and Princess Pauline Reuss ( both born 2 June 1977, Oslo, Norway ).

Her maternal grandparents were William, Duke of Nassau and his second wife Princess Pauline of Württemberg.

The ageing, licentious king, once described as " the greatest debauchee of the age ", had previously been rejected by Emma's sister Pauline and by Princess Thyra of Denmark.

* Princess Pauline of Waldeck and Pyrmont ( 1855 – 1925 ), member of the House of Waldeck and Pyrmont and a Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Mme de La Rochefoucauld became dame d ' honneur to the empress Josephine, and their eldest daughter married a brother-in-law of Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese.

He is most famous for his operettas – the most successful of which is The Merry Widow ( Die lustige Witwe ) – but he also wrote sonatas, symphonic poems, marches, and a number of waltzes ( the most popular being Gold und Silber, composed for Princess Pauline von Metternich's " Gold and Silver " Ball, January 1902 ), some of which were drawn from his famous operettas.

# Princess Feodora Adelheid Helene Luise Karoline Gustave Pauline Alice Jenny ( July 3, 1874-June 21, 1910 ).

Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, VA, GCStJ, GCVO, GBE ( Alice Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline ; née Princess Alice of Albany ; 25 February 1883 – 3 January 1981 ) was a member of the British Royal Family.

Her maternal grandparents were William, Duke of Nassau and his second wife Princess Pauline of Württemberg.

Pauline was a daughter of Prince Paul of Württemberg and his wife Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

Leopold was actually a third cousin of Helena's grandmother Princess Pauline of Württemberg, as they were both great great grandchildren of Frederick, Prince of Wales.

Among these are statues of Lord Stanley, poet Robert Burns, Olympic runner Harry Jerome, and President Harding ; plaques commemorating the wreck of the SS Beaver, the sinking of the Chehalis ( a tugboat that collided with the MV Princess Victoria off Stanley Park ), Pauline Johnson ’ s burial site, and the Salvation Army ; a replica of the RMS Empress of Japan figurehead ; a bronze statue of a Girl in a Wetsuit by Elek Imredy ; and a timber-and-stump archway that replaced the original Lumbermen ’ s Arch built by lumber workers immediately west of the Aquarium is accompanied by a planting of Japanese maple and flowering cherry and other plants from Japan.

* Mistresses of Russian Royalty, Including: Anna Pavlova, Natalia Brasova, Maria Naryshkina, Catherine Dolgorukov, Pauline de Rothschild, Princess Olga ISBN 978-1-242-90165-2

* Leopold II, Prince of Lippe ( 1796 – 1851 ), eldest child of Leopold I and Princess Pauline

* Princess Pauline ( 19 December 18777 May 1965 ), married in 1898 William Frederick, Prince of Wied ( 1872 – 1945 ); had issue.

# Pauline Ducruet, daughter of Princess Stéphanie and Daniel Ducruet

* 1810 – First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.

* March 10 – Crown Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands marries Claus von Amsberg.

******* HRH Princess Frederica of Hanover and Cumberland, Baroness von Pawel-Rammingen ( 1848 – 1926 )

For example, the former Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz enjoys the title and style of " HRH Princess Michael of Kent ," and not " HRH Princess Marie-Christine of Kent.

The 1851 marriage of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and German-Polish noblewoman Countess Julia von Hauke ( created Princess of Battenberg ), provided a sovereign prince of Bulgaria, and queen-consorts for Spain and Sweden, as well as ( through female descent ) the consort of the current Queen of the United Kingdom.

Beginning a novel tradition, one of that couple's daughters, Princess Olga Aleksandrovna Yurievskaya ( 1873 – 1925 ), in 1895 married the child of an 1868 morganatic marriage in the House of Nassau, George, Count von Merenberg ( 1871 – 1965 ).

In episode # 38, " Morticia Meets Royalty ," Princess Millicent von Schlepp arrived and produced an elaborate box from which a distinctly feminine hand ( played by Carolyn Jones ) emerged.

At least one other Thing appears on-screen: when Lady Fingers leaves Princess von Schlepp's service, she is replaced by " Esmeralda ", a rather hideous old female claw with jewels and nasty black pointy fingernails.

For instance, prior to her marriage, Empress Alexandra of Russia was known as " Her Grand Ducal Highness Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine " Ihre Großherzogliche Hoheit Alix Prinzessin von Hessen und bei Rhein ).

Rodolphe von Hofmannsthal, great-grandson of Hugo, is married to Lady Frances von Hofmannsthal, née Armstrong-Jones, daughter of the 1st Earl of Snowdon ( former husband of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon ) and his second wife, Lucy Mary Davies.

But crisis, as a result of marriage, would come again with the announcement in July 1965 of the engagement of Princess Beatrix, heir to the throne, to German diplomat Claus von Amsberg.

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

Ranier then may have been romantically involved with his second cousin, Princess Ira von Fürstenberg, a former movie actress turned jewellery designer, who is also a Fiat heiress and the former sister-in-law of fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg.

In 1908, she appeared in the musical Havana followed, the next year, by Our Miss Gibbs, in which she played Lady Connie ; she was then on tour again with Hicks, in Papa's Wife, before playing Sadie von Tromp in the hit operetta The Dollar Princess at Daly's Theatre in 1909.

* 1954 Das Märchen von Prinzessin Turandot ( The Fairy Tale of Princess Turandot ), a radio play

# Princess Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Countess von Mensdorff-Pouilly

Princess Michael of Kent ( Baroness Marie Christine Anna Agnes Hedwig Ida ; née von Reibnitz ; born 15 January 1945 ) is an Austrian-Hungarian member of the British Royal Family.

Princess Michael of Kent was born on 15 January 1945, in Karlsbad, in the then-German-populated Sudetenland, now known as Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, near the family estates of her Austrian maternal grandmother, Princess Hedwig von Windisch-Graetz, just prior to the defeat and the end of Nazi Germany and of World War II in Europe, and the following expulsion of the German population later that year.

* The Private Letters of Princess Lieven to Prince Metternich 1820 – 1826 ( 1937 ), editor

Parts of the Princess ’ s diary, her correspondence with Lords Aberdeen and Grey, François Guizot, Prince Metternich, and her letters from London to her brother Count Alexander von Benckendorff, have been published.

Prior to the wedding, the couple sought to reside in Austria, and an application was made to Prince Metternich, to know on what footing the husband of Princess Clémentine would be received at the Court of Vienna.

Strauss had hoped for a miracle and he got one in the form of de Villemessant, the dedicatee of the ' Figaro-Polka ' who skillfully championed Strauss in his newspaper ' Le Figaro ' on 24 May 1867 onwards that the composer was able to score a triumph when invited to conduct at a ball hosted by Princess Pauline Metternich at the Austrian embassy on 28 May.

# Ferdinand Augustus Frederick ( 22 October 1763 – 20 January 1834 ), married Princess Kunigunde von Metternich, sister of Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich ;

Princess Pauline von Metternich daguerreotype by Hermann Krone, 1854.

Princess Pauline de Metternich, portrait by Edgar Degas around 1865

Princess Pauline Metternich on the Beach, oil painting by Eugène Boudin, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Princess Pauline von Metternich ( also known as " de Metternich " and " von Metternich-Winneburg ") was born into the Hungarian noble family of Sándor de Slawnitza.

Her mother, Princess Leontine von Metternich, was a daughter of the Austrian chancellor Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich ( architect of the Concert of Europe ).

* Princess Sophie von Metternich ( 1857 – 1941 )