Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth


Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth was a German noblewoman.

Early life

Countess Viktoria-Luise was born at Schloss Casel in Casel, Weimar Republic to Count Hans of Solms-Baruth and Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. Her maternal grandparents were Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.

Marriages

On 25 January 1942, Viktoria-Louise married her first cousin at the Pfarr- und Patronatskirche Kasel. She and Friedrich Josias divorced on 19 September 1946.
They had one child:
She married, secondly, Richard Whitten on 6 November 1947 at Steinwänd bei Werfen, Austria. They were remarried in a religious ceremony on 14 February 1948 at San Francisco, California.

Ancestry