Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Princess Adelaide "Adi" of Saxe-Meiningen (Adelaide Erna Caroline Marie Elisabeth; later Princess Albert of Prussia; 16 August 1891 - 25 April 1971) was a daughter of Prince Frederick John of Saxe-Meiningen and his wife Countess Adelaide of Lippe-Biesterfeld. Adelaide (original German: Adelheid)'s father Prince Frederick was a younger son of George II of Saxe-Meiningen by his second wife Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. She had five siblings, including Prince George, a prisoner of war killed during World War II, and Prince Bernard. Adelaide's mother, also named Adelaide, was the eldest child of Ernst, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld, who was the Regent of the principality of Lippe for seven years (1897-1904). On 3 August 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Adelaide married Prince Albert of Prussia (original German: Adalbert) at Wilhelmshaven, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.