Countess Monika of Solms-Laubach

From redevance
HM The Dowager Queen of Hanover
Titles Dowager Queen of Hanover
Reign 16 July 1981 - 9 December 1987
Predecessor Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein
Successor Princess Caroline of Monaco
Biographical Information
Born 8 August 1929

Laubach, Hesse, Germany

Died 4 June 2015 (aged 85)

Hanover, Hanover, Germany

Spouse King Ernest Augustus IV of Hanover

(m. 1981; w. 1987)

Name Monika
House Solms (by birth)

Hanover (by marriage)

Father Georg, Count of Solms-Laubach
Mother Princess Johanna of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich
Religion Lutheran

General

Life[edit | edit source]

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Marriage and Issue[edit | edit source]

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Titles and Honours[edit | edit source]

  • 1929-1981 Countess Monika of Solms-Laubach
  • 1981-1987 Queen Monika of Hanover
  • 1987-2015 Monika, Dowager Queen of Hanover

Ancestry[edit | edit source]

Parents Grandparents Great-Grandparents Great-Great-Grandparents
Georg, Count of Solms-Laubach Otto, Count of Solms-Laubach

Princess Emma of Ysenburg-Budingen

Friedrich, Count of Solms-Laubach

Countess Marianne of Stolberg-Wernigerode
Bruno, Prince of Ysenburg-Budingen Countess Bertha of Castell-Rudenhausen

Otto, Count of Solms-Laubach

Princess Luitgarde of Wied
Wilhelm, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode
Countess Elisabeth of Stolberg-Rossla
Ernst Casimir II, Prince of Ysenburg-Budingen
Countess Thekla of Erbach-Furstenau

Hereditary Count Adolf of Castell-Rudenhausen

Marie von Thungen

Princess Johanna of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich Carl, Prince of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich

Princess Emma of Stolberg-Wernigerode

Hermann Adolf, Prince of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich

Countess Agnes of Stolberg-Wernigerode
Otto, Prince of Stolberg-Wernigerode
Princess Anna Elisabeth of Reuss

Prince Ferdinand of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich

Countess Caroline of Collatto-San Salvatore
Wilhelm, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode
Countess Elisabeth of Stolberg-Rossla
Hereditary Count Hermann of Stolberg-Wernigerode
Countess Emma of Erbach-Furstenau
Heinrich LXIII, Prince of Reuss
Countess Caroline of Stolberg-Wernigerode