#ludwig iv

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Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor by Anton Hoffmann

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Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian. By Johann Jakob Dorner.

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The Hesse family 1872

Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse his wife Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and their five children Victoria, Elisabeth, Irene, Ernest Louis, and Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine.

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Alice of the United Kingdom and her husband Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine photographed by John Jabez Edwin Mayall on her brother's wedding in 1863. She wears the Hesse Strawberry Leaf Tiara and he wears the Order of the Garter.

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Irene of Hesse and by Rhine with her husband, Prince Henry of Prussia, 1887.

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Alix of Hesse and by Rhine with her husband, Nicholas II of Russia, 1894.

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Alix of Hesse and by Rhine (1872 - 1918)

Alix Viktoria Helene Luise Beatrix was born on 6 June 1872 and was the fourth and youngest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom.

She married Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia who was her second cousin and she converted to Russian Orthodoxy, taking the name Alexandra Feodorovna. She had 5 children and as she was an hemophiliac, she transmitted the disease to her son, Alexei.

After the Russian Revolution, she and her family were arrested and murdered by the Bolsheviks at the age of 46. She had the same fate with her sister Elizabeth.

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Elizabeth of Hesse and by Rhine with her husband, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovitch of Russia, 1884.