Baron Alphons von Pawel-Rammingen
Baron Luitbert Alexander George Lionel Alphons von Pawel-Rammingen, KCB, KCVO, KCH, VD was a German-born nobleman who became a naturalised British subject in 1880 when he married Princess Frederica of Hanover.Life
Pawel-Rammingen was born on 27 July 1843, the eldest son of Karl Julius August Plato Emil, Baron von Pawel-Rammingen and his wife Luitgarde von Friesen ; he had an elder sister, Anna who married Oswald von Coburg in 1862, and a younger brother, Baron Paul Julius August Plato Sylvester Albert. He succeeded his father to become 2nd Baron in 1886.
On 24 April 1880, Pawel-Rammingen married Princess Frederica Sophia Maria, daughter of King George V of Hanover; he had been naturalised as a British Subject by Act of Parliament on 19 March 1880. In the same year, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and in 1897, Queen Victoria also appointed him a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. He was also appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of Hanover. In the United Kingdom, he was Honorary Colonel of the 6th Battalion of the Essex Regiment. A widower since 1926, he died on 20 November 1932.
