Albertine of Brandenburg-Schwedt


Albertine, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg was the second wife and consort of Victor Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg.

Biography

Sophie Friederike Albertine of Bradenburg-Schwedt was born in Berlin on 21 April 1712 as the third daughter of Prince Albert Frederick of Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt and Princess Maria Dorothea Kettler of Courland. Her mother was a daughter of Frederick Casimir Kettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia and Countess Sophie Amalie of Nassau-Siegen. Her paternal grandparents were Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg and Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
On 22 May 1733 she married Victor Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg in Potsdam, becoming the Princess Consort of Anhalt-Bernburg. She was his second wife. His first wife, Princess Louise of Anhalt-Dessau, had died the year before. Albertine and Victor Frederick had five children:
She died on 7 September 1750 in Bernburg. She was buried in the crypt of the Castle Church of St. Aegidien.