Through her eldest son Louis IV, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was her great-great-grandson, and she is consequently an ancestor of Charles III.

Elisabeth was born in Berlin to Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg.

Through her father, she was a granddaughter of Frederick William II of Prussia.

[1] She lived to see her son ascend the throne as Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine on 13 June 1877 and to see Louis and Alice's two eldest daughters marry.

Elisabeth and Charles' first great-grandchild, Princess Alice of Battenberg, was also born during her lifetime.