Alexandra Fyodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia)

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Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna

Prussian Royalty
Hohenzollern>House of Hohenzollern

Frederick I (1701-1713)
Children
Princess Louise Dorothea
Prince Frederick William
Frederick William I (1713-1740)
Children
Princess Wilhelmine
Prince Frederick
Princess Friederike Luise
Princess Philippine Charlotte
Princess Sophia
Princess Louisa Ulrika
Prince August Wilhelm
Princess Anna Amalia
Prince Henry
Prince Ferdinand
Frederick II (The Great, 1740-1786)
Frederick William II (1786-1797)
Children
Prince Frederick William
Prince Louis
Princess Wilhelmine
Princess Augusta
Prince Charles
Prince Wilhelm
Frederick William III (1797-1840)
Prince Frederick William
Prince Wilhelm
Princess Charlotte
Princess Alexandrine
Prince Charles
Frederick William IV (1840-1861)

Princess Charlotte of Prussia (Frederica Louise Charlotte Wilhelmina, July 13, 1798-November 1, 1860) was, as Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress consort of Russia as the wife Nicholas I of Russia.

Charlotte was the fourth child of Frederick William III, King of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

In 1817, Charlotte married her second cousin Grand Duke Nicholas Pavlovich and took the name Alexandra Feodorovna. They had seven children:

Alexander Nicolaievich, the future Tsarevich and then Emperor Alexander II of Russia (1818-1881), married firstly Marie of Hesse and secondly, morganatically, princess Catherine Dolgoruki.
Maria Nicolaievna (1819-1876). Married Maximilian de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg (son of Eugène de Beauharnais), which marriage was accepted as equal (ebenbuertig) by her father. Her issue were confirmed in having succession rights to Russian throne, and they mostly lived in St.Petersburg. Secondly she married count Gregory Stroganov.
Olga Nicolaievna (1822-1892). Married Karl I of Württemberg in 1846 and was childless.
Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (1825-1844). Married Landgraf Friedrich of Hesse-Kassel in 1843, but died in childbirth the following year.
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (1827-1892). Married princess Alexandra Josifovna of Saxe-Altenburg and had issue.
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaievich of Russia (1831-1891). Married his first cousin's daughter, Princess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg and had issue.
Grand Duke Michael Nicolaevich of Russia (1832 -1909). Married Cecilie of Baden (Olga Fedorovna) and had issue.

Alexandra Fedorovna became empress upon her husband's accession as Nicholas I in 1825 and was widowed in 1855. Her reputation was one of never mixing into politics and being a loyal and caring wife and mother.

Titles from Birth to Death

Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Prussia
Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Alexandra Fyodorovna of Russia
Her Imperial Majesty The Empress of Russia
Her Imperial Majesty Dowager Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna of Russia

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