Duchess Donata of Mecklenburg (born 11 March 1956) is the senior remaining member of the House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Since there are no males left in the family, the Schwerin branch itself is considered extinct due to the Salic law of succession, leaving Mecklenburg-Strelitz as the only remaining line of the House of Mecklenburg.
She was born in Kiel in the state of Schleswig-Holstein the eldest daughter of Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and his wife Princess Barbara of Prussia (1920-1994).
Her paternal grandfather was the last reigning Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Frederick Francis IV.She is also a descendant of Christian IX of Denmark as her paternal grandmother, Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland, a daughter of Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover and Princess Thyra of Denmark, was the youngest daughter and fifth child of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel.
Her maternal grandfather was Prince Sigismund of Prussia, a grandson of Grand Duke Louis IV and Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, the second daughter of Queen Victoria.