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

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.

During her last stay in the fall of 1896, the Dowager Princess contracted pneumonia, as a result of which she died on November 27 at around 11 p.m.

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].