Princess Elisabeth, Duchess in Bavaria

Who is Princess Elisabeth, Duchess in Bavaria?

Princess Elisabeth, Duchess in Bavaria (born 31 December 1940) is the wife of Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria, heir presumptive to both the former Bavarian Royal House and the Jacobite Succession.

Elisabeth was born at Stockholm, Sweden on 31 December 1940. She was the first daughter of Count Carl Douglas and Ottara Maria Haas-Heye. She was granddaughter of general Archibald Douglas. Her maternal great-grandfather was Philip, Prince of Eulenburg and Hertefeld (1847-1921) (friend of Wilhelm II, German Emperor), whose youngest child Viktoria Ada Astrid Agnes (1886-1967) married in 1909 professor Otto Ludwig Haas-Heye (1879 - 1959), and had issue, including two daughters. Elisabeth descends through both her mother and father from medieval Scandinavian nobility and rulers. However, her father's patriline is Scottish, of the Swedish-German branch, descended via two obscure generations, descended from the youngest son of James Douglas, 1st Baron of Dalkeith, ancestor of the 15th century Earls of Morton. All these Douglases were of the Morton branch of the ancient Douglas family. Her younger sister Rosita married in 1972 to John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough but divorced in 2008.