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Romance 1840 but forbade Finally eloping (1851 - 15 December 1888) his death
Princess Marie of Battenberg 1852–1923
Prince Louis of Battenberg 1854–1921
Prince Alexander of Battenberg, 1857–1893
Prince Henry of Battenberg 1858–1896
Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg 1861–1924
Alexander fell in love with Countess Julia von Hauke, lady-in-waiting to his sister (known, since her conversion to Orthodoxy, as Maria Alexandrovna, ranking only after her mother-in-law the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna). The countess was an orphaned German-Polish ward of the Russian Emperor, and daughter of the Emperor's former minister of war, Count Johann Morutz von Hauke, a Polish general of German descent. At that time, the Emperor Nicholas I was considering Alexander as a possible husband for his niece and, when he heard of Alexander's romance, he forbade the couple to marry. She was six months pregnant with their first child, Marie.
Since she was not considered equal for royal marriage purposes, her children did not qualify for succession to the throne of Hesse and by Rhine. Her marriage was declared to be morganatic after the birth of her first son.
Alexander left for England to contemplate his future, but then returned to Russia and eloped with Julia from St. Petersburg, being stricken by the Emperor's orders from the roll of the Russian imperial army for insubordination. The two were married in Breslau in 1851.
