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Princess Elisabeth, Duchess in Bavaria
Elisabeth was born at Stockholm, Sweden on 31 December 1940. She was the first daughter of Count Carl Ludwig Douglas and Ottora Maria Haas-Heye. She was granddaughter of General Vilhelm Archibald Douglas. Her maternal great-grandfather was Philip, Prince of Eulenburg and Hertefeld (1847–1921) (friend of Wilhelm II, German Emperor), whose youngest child Viktoria Ada Astrid Agnes (1886–1967) married in 1909 Professor Otto Ludwig Haas-Heye (1879–1959), and had issue, including two daughters. Elisabeth descends through both her mother and father from medieval Scandinavian nobility and rulers. However, her father's patriline is Scottish, of the Swedish-German branch, descended via two obscure generations, descended from the youngest son of James Douglas, 1st Baron of Dalkeith, ancestor of the 15th century Earls of Morton. All these Douglases were of the Morton branch of the ancient Douglas family.
Her younger sister Rosita married in 1972 to John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough but divorced in 2008.
Countess Rosita Douglas, who married, in 1972, John, 11th Duke of
Marlborough, was a sponsor at their daughter (b1967) Sophie Elizabeth
Marie Gabrielle's christening.
Princess Max was born into a branch of the Scottish house of Douglas which had settled in Sweden in the seventeenth century. She is descended in the male line from William Douglas, 4th of Whittinghame, who married Elizabeth Maitland, herself a descendant of Robert II, King of Scots. Note: The following is not proven.
My genealogy section reports a differing ancestry for Patrick Douglas, qv. Robert II, King of Scots James Douglas of Lothian
(born 1316; crowned 1371; died 1390) (died before 1323)
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Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of
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Margaret Stewart Sir James Douglas of Dalkeith
married (b c1330-1420)
Robert Stewart, 1st Lord Lorn (died before 1449) |
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Isabel Stewart Sir James Douglas,
married 1st Lord Dalkieth
Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll (died 1493) (died 1441)
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Margaret Campbell Sir William Douglas,
married 1st of Whittinghame
George Seton, 2nd Lord Seton (died 1507/8) (died before 1484)
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Martha) Seton Sir William
married 2nd of Whittinghame
William Maitland of (alive 1484)
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Sir Richard Maitland of William Douglas,
Thirlestane and Lethington (1496-1586) 3rd of Whittinghame
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Elizabeth Maitland William Douglas,
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Patrick Douglas (died 1626)
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Count Robert Douglas (1611-1682)
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Count Gustaf Douglas (1648-1705)
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Count Vilhelm Douglas (1683-1763)
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Count Vilhelm Otto
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Count Carl Vilhelm Douglas (1754-1834)
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