Ludwig III's daughters-Bavaria

Thank you; and very fine rabbits they are too.

We seem to have had something of everyone except for Maria.

Meanwhile, another of Mathilde at the time of her wedding:

Mathilde and husband again...

here with her brood of rabits -- interesting hooby for a princess, isn't it?  
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Actually this postcard of the princess - made during WWI - should encourage the Bavarian people to breed rabits during the late war years with it's shortage of food.

The rabits of the princess wouldn´t have been enough to make a difference, but I can understand the feelings of the bavarians...

A picture of Maria Ludwiga Theresia, princess of Bavaria. The man is her husband Ferdinand of Borbon, duke of Calabria:

The rabits of the princess wouldn´t have been enough to make a difference, but I can understand the feelings of the bavarians...

You got me wrong, Yseult. One wanted the people to follow the princess' example and breed rabits of their own.

This picture from 1888 shows them as children, all in a row from the oldest to the youngest; it includes Dietlinde who died within a year or so of her birth.



Rupprecht, Adelgunde, Marie, Karl, Franz, Mathilde, Wolfgang, Hildegard, Wiltrud, Helmtrud and Dietlinde. Gundelinde was yet to come.

Cool pix! thanks!

Breeding rabbits? that sounds boring....I can understand dogs, but rabbits? they are not really nice and human loving animals.
All the rabbits i met bit me. my fingers are not carets!

13 altogether; they obviously thought you can't have too much of a good thing. The rabbits were bred to encourage everyone else to breed them, for food; there was a desperate shortage of food in Germany in the last two years of the war. Rabbits can be thoroughly friendly if they are handled properly. I have a neighbour who has a house-rabbit; unfortunately it leaves droppings everywhere. 

I found it sad that some of them went without husbands or married late. 

13 altogether; they obviously thought you can't have too much of a good thing. The rabbits were bred to encourage everyone else to breed them, for food; there was a desperate shortage of food in Germany in the last two years of the war. Rabbits can be thoroughly friendly if they are handled properly. I have a neighbour who has a house-rabbit; unfortunately it leaves droppings everywhere. 

I'm always gentle with small animals, they just didn't like me, i guess. lol.

Ludwig and his wife were catholics, they bred like rabbits! lol (just joking, please don't find it offensive)

I was meaning if the owner of the rabbit had socialized it properly; if they are just left in a hutch and taken out occasionally, they can be tetchy.

Crown Prince Rupprecht had 11 children (though by two different wives).

Hildegarde, Helmtrud, Gundelinde and Wiltrud.    (Agreed? There is a more difficult one to come.)

Wonderful Pictures! Wiltrud and Helmtrud look very close as children!  Did Wiltrud marry early?

Wiltrud married Wilhelm, Duke of Urach, in 1924, when she was about 40, as his second wife. So a late marriage like her sister Adelgunde. Her husband had had a chance at different times of becoming Prince of Monaco (he was in fact the legitimate heir but the French didn't want a German there), King of Albania and King of Lithuania!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindaugas_II_of_Lithuania
Helmtrud never married, neither did Hildegarde.

This picture from 1888 shows them as children, all in a row from the oldest to the youngest; it includes Dietlinde who died within a year or so of her birth.



Rupprecht, Adelgunde, Marie, Karl, Franz, Mathilde, Wolfgang, Hildegard, Wiltrud, Helmtrud and Dietlinde. Gundelinde was yet to come.

A 14th child is missing: Nothburga, born and died before the pic was taken...

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