Alexandra Fyodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia)

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Charlotte of Prussia
Empress Consort of Russia
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Titles	HIM The Dowager Empress of Russia (1855-1860) HIM The Empress of Russia (1825-1855) HIH Grand Duchess Alexandra Fyodorovna of Russia (1817-1825) HRH Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1798-1817)
Born	July 13, 1798
Died	November 1, 1860
Consort	December 1, 1825 - March 2, 1855
Consort to	Nicholas I
Issue	Alexander II, Maria Nicolaievna, Olga Nicolaievna, Alexandra Nikolaevna, Konstantin Nikolayevich, Nicholas Nicolaievich, Michael Nicolaevich
Royal House	House of Hohenzollern
Father	Frederick William III of Prussia
Mother	Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

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). Called "Mary" in the family. 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. She married, second, Count Gregory Alexandrovich Stroganov in 1856.
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 Alexandra 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.