He was born in Ludwigslust the second child of the reigning Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Frederick Francis IV and his wife Princess Alexandra of Hanover a daughter of Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover and Princess Thyra of Denmark.
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Later the family returned to Mecklenburg and lived in Gelbensande, and from 1921 the settled at Ludwigslust Castle.
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Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
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