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 of Anhalt, by whom he has one son and three daughters; Princess Louise, born March 1, 1829, and married, June 27, 1854, to the Landgrave Alexis of Hesse-Philippsthal, from whom she was divorced March 6, 1861; and Princess Anna, born May 17, 1836, who married, May 26, 1853, Prince Friedrich of Hesse-Cassel. 2. Princess Alexandrine, born Feb. 23, 1803; married, May 25, 1822, to Grand-Duke Paul Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; widow, March 7, 1842. 3. Prince Albrecht, born Oct. 4, 1809; general of cavalry; married, Sept. 14, 1830, to Princess Marianne of the Netherlands; divorced, March 28, 1849; re-married June 13, 1853, to Rosalie von Hohenau, born Aug. 29, 1820. Offspring of the first union are two children, Albrecht, born May 8, 1837, and Alexandrine, born Feb. 1, 1842, married Dec. 9, 1865, to Prince Wilhelm of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

Queen Dowager.—Queen Elisabeth, born November 13, 1801, the daughter of the late king Maximilian I. of Bavaria; married to Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, then heir-apparent of Prussia, November 29, 1823; widow, January 2, 1861.

Cousins of the King.—1. Prince Alexander, born June 21, 1820, the son of the late Prince Friedrich of Prussia. 2. Prince Georg, brother of the preceding, born February 12, 1826; author of 'Phaedra,' a tragedy, Berlin, 1868. 3. Prince Adalbert, born October 29, 1811, the son of the late Prince Wilhelm of Prussia; admiral, and commander-in-chief of the German navy; married, April 20, 1850, to Theresa Elssler, elevated Baroness von Barnim, born at Vienna, in 1806. 4. Princess Elisabeth, sister of the preceding, born June 18, 1815; married, October 22, 1836, to Prince Karl of Hesse. 5. Princess Marie, sister of the preceding, born October 15, 1825; married, October 12, 1842, to the Heir-apparent, afterwards King Maximilian II. of Bavaria; widow, March 10, 1864.

The kings of Prussia trace their origin to Count Thassilo, of Zollern, one of the generals of Charlemagne. His successor, Count Friedrich I., built the family-castle of Hohenzollern, near the Danube, in the year 980. A subsequent Zollern, or Hohenzollern, Friedrich III., was elevated to the rank of a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, in 1273, and received the Burgraviate of Nuremberg in fief; and his great grandson, Friedrich VI., was invested by Kaiser Sigismund, in 1415, with the province of Brandenburg, and obtained the rank of Elector in 1417. A century after, in 1511, the Teutonic knights, owners of the large province of Prussia, on the Baltic, elected Margrave Albrecht, a younger son of the family of Hohenzollern, to the post of Grand-Master, and he, after a while, declared himself hereditary prince. The early extinction of Albrecht's line brought the province of Prussia to the Electors of Brandenburg,