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Elisabeth and Charles eventually separated, but were never officially divorced. By this point, their children were all married and living away from home; consequently, Elisabeth was alone much of the time later in her life. She lived quietly in
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Though her son remarked that Elisabeth was "a fighter" after she recovered from an accident, the doctors gave her very little chance of survival; she died on 15 March 2010 at the age of 98 in Munich. Her remains were interred at
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was eventually recovered, as they were allowed to reclaim the property they lost from the Soviet occupancy through family lawyers and the German government; none of the family ever returned to Thüringia.
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but was forced to end her studies, as the death of their mother left her widowed father later in need of help on the family estate. Her education left her with a lifetime love of music, particularly
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for the last fourteen years of her life to be near her daughter Princess Elisabeth. Unlike her "more glamorous" children, Elisabeth largely stayed out of headlines during her lifetime.
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Princess Beatrice-Maria of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Duchess of Saxony (born Bamberg, 11 March 1948), married in London on 9 December 1977 to Martin Charles Davidson (born
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Her mother died in childbirth in 1913, leaving a son, Baron Jobst von Wangenheim-Winterstein. As a young girl Elisabeth began training as a pianist in
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Just before giving birth to their first child, the couple fled eastern Germany in the face of the approaching Soviet
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Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Duchess of Saxony (born Burgellern bei Bamberg,
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Ancestors of Elisabeth, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
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Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
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Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
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