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3 unusual facts about Ellen Franz


Ellen Franz

On 18 March 1873 she married—as his third wife—Duke Georg II of Saxe-Meiningen in the Villa Feodora in Bad Liebenstein.

After the death of her husband in 1914, Helene retired to her countryseat, the Veste Heldburg, where she died nine years later, aged eighty-three.

This morganatic marriage annoyed the German Emperor Wilhelm II so much that he decided not visit the Schloss Altenstein after his reconstruction in 1889 by work of Georg II because of his aversion towards Helene.



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