The Duchess of Connaught died in London March 14 1917.
Thus abandoned, and in disgrace at court, the duchess betook herself to religion.
By his beloved consort Ulrica Leonora of Denmark, from the shock of whose death in July 1693 he never recovered, he had seven children, of whom only three survived him, a son Charles, and two daughters, Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein, and Ulrica Leonora, who ultimately succeeded her brother on the Swedish throne.
The duke and duchess represented Queen Victoria at the coronation of the tsar Nicholas II.
In the presence of the rising storm the duchess was bewildered, seeing clearly the folly of the policy she was obliged to carry out no less than its difficulty.
