[1] Elisabeth received drawing and painting lessons from the later Rudolstadt court painter Richard Schinzel.

[3] The princess was popular with the population, but the couple became increasingly estranged from each other, from which Elisabeth suffered greatly.

After Leopold's death, the marriage remained childless, Elisabeth moved into her widow's residence in the Neues Palace.

[9][10][11] Since the death of her brother George Albert, to whom she shared a close bond throughout her life, Elisabeth stayed regularly in Niederkrossen.

In accordance with her wishes, Elisabeth was not buried in Detmold, but on December 3, 1896, in the princely crypt of the Rudolstadt town church St. Andreas [de].