Princess Marie Amelie of Baden

Who was Princess Marie Amelie of Baden?

Marie Amelie of Baden, was the youngest daughter of Charles, Grand Duke of Baden and Stephanie de Beauharnais, the adopted daughter of Napoleon I of France.

On 23 February 1843 in Mannheim, she married a Scottish nobleman, William Hamilton, Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale. They had two sons and one daughter.

William Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton, married Lady Mary Montagu

Lieutenant Charles George Douglas-Hamilton, 7th Earl of Selkirk, 11th Hussars

Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton, married Albert I, Prince of Monaco; Tassilo Festetics de Tolna.

After her wedding, she relocated to Brodick Castle on the Isle of Arran and then later on Hamilton Palace in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Her husband succeeded as Duke of Hamilton upon the death of her father-in-law in 1852. She converted to Roman Catholicism in 1855.

She was styled Marie Amelie, Princess of Baden, Dowager Duchess of Hamilton after her husband's death in 1863.

Through her daughter, she is the great-great-grandmother of the current reigning prince of Monaco, Albert II.