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Personal data Friedrike Amalia Wilhelmine Viktoria van Pruisen 

• She was born on April 12, 1866 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
• She died on November 13, 1929 in Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, she was 63 years old.

  Oorzaak: Pneumonia

• She is buried in Schloss Friedrichshof.
• A child of Frederik III. (Frederik Willem Nicolaas Karel) van Pruisen and Victoria van Saksen-Coburg-Gotha

Household of Friedrike Amalia Wilhelmine Viktoria van Pruisen

(1) She is married to Adolf Wilhelm Viktor van Schaumburg-Lippe.

They got married on November 18, 1890 at Kinderloos, she was 24 years old.

(2) She is married to Aleksander Anatolyevich Zoubkov.

They got married on November 19, 1927 at Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, she was 61 years old.

The couple are divorced.

Notes about Friedrike Amalia Wilhelmine Viktoria van Pruisen

In 1927, Viktoria held a party for university students at her castle in Bonn. One of the students in attendance was Alexander Anatolievitch Zoubkoff (Russian: Aleksander Anatolyevich Zoubkov), a Russian immigrant who was studying law at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Bonn">University of Bonn. Zoubkoff told Viktoria that he had fled the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_revolution">Russian revolution and that he had been a baron. Infatuated with Zoubkoff, Viktoria provided the young student – 35 years her junior – with lavish gifts; he, in turn, proposed marriage. Without asking permission from the former Emperor Wilhelm, Viktoria renounced her titles and married Zoubkoff first at the town hall in Bonn, then in a Greek Orthodox ceremony at which none of her family was in attendance. The couple were married on 19 November 1927, which would have been Viktoria and Adolf's 37th wedding anniversary. She wore the lace bridal veil worn by her mother in 1858. Viktoria was 61, while Alexander was only 27. The two had known one another for only two months, and their wedding was a royal and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_class">society scandal.

Soon after the wedding, Alexander Zoubkoff, whom Viktoria called "Sascha", began spending large amounts of Viktoria's dwindling fortune. Alexander's financial troubles, combined with his public misconduct, led to his deportation from Germany not long after. He went to Luxembourg and worked there as a waiter. The restaurant advertised with a sign that read: "The Emperor's brother-in-law is serving you here". Although she had at first stood by her husband, in 1928, Viktoria separated from him, considering his antics too much.

Her own financial struggles caught up to her, and Viktoria was forced to auction off nearly all of her belongings. The sale, conducted by the Cologne auctioneers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempertz">M. Lempertz, attracted far less interest than had been anticipated, and it was estimated that the proceeds from the auction would have covered only one-third of her debts (which were reported to have been 900,000 marks, or £45,000 sterling). Viktoria was forced to move into a single rented room in the suburbs of Bonn. That same year Viktoria caused another scandal by filing for divorce from Zoubkoff after less than two years of marriage, on the grounds that his behaviour had resulted in his expulsion from Germany, he was unable to maintain her, and that "conjugal relations did not exist".

Before they could be divorced, or her siblings could have their marriage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annulled">annulled, Viktoria came down with a fever and was taken to the Hospital of St Francis, in Bonn, where she was diagnosed with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonia">pneumonia. In the hours before her death, her brother Wilhelm and sister Margaret attempted to contact her, but were not allowed. Viktoria died on 13 November 1929, "penniless, lonely, loveless, and without her family’s forgiveness". She was buried at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlosshotel_Kronberg">Schloss Friedrichshof, the home of her sister Margaret. She was 63.

 

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