Princess Alexandra of Hannover (née Princess Alexandra Sophie Cecilie Anna Maria Friederike Benigna Dorothea of Ysenburg and Büdingen; 23 October 1937 – 1 June 2015) was a German politician, philanthropist, and wife of Prince Welf Henry of Hanover.
[1][2] Alexandra Prinzessin von Hannover was born on 23 October 1937 in Frankfurt am Main[1] and was the second eldest child and only daughter of Otto Friedrich III [de], Prince of Ysenburg und Büdingen zu Wächtersbach and his wife Felicitas Anna Eleonore Cecilie, Princess Reuss of Köstritz.
[citation needed] She was the sister of Wolfgang-Ernst, Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen.
Alexandra married Prince Welf Henry of Hanover [fr], the fourth son of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick and his wife Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, in a civil ceremony on 20 September 1960 at Büdingen, Hesse, and in a religious ceremony on the following day at the Marienkirche in Büdingen.
She died on 1 June 2015, aged 77, three days before the death of her sister-in-law Monika, Dowager Princess of Hanover.