Countess Monika of Solms-Laubach

Infobox Hanoverian Royalty|highness|consort
name = Monika of Solms-Laubach
title = Princess of Hanover


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reign = 16 July 1981 - 9 December 1987
titles = "HRH" Monika, Princess of Hanover
"HRH" The Princess of Hanover
Countess Monika of Solms-Laubach
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spouse = Ernest Augustus IV, Prince of Hanover
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royal house = House of Hanover
House of Solms-Laubach
father = Georg Friedrich, Count of Solms-Laubach
mother = Princess Johanna of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich
date of birth =birth date|1929|08|08|df=yes
place of birth = flagicon|Germany Laubach, Hesse, Germany
date of death =
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Countess Monika of Solms-Laubach (German: "Monika Gräfin zu Solms-Laubach") (born 8 August 1929 in Laubach, Hesse, Germany) is the second wife and widow of Ernest Augustus IV, Prince of Hanover. Monika is the eldest daughter of Georg Friedrich, Count of Solms-Laubach and Princess Johanna of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich.

Monika and Ernest Augustus married on 16 July 1981 at Laubach in Hesse, Germany, in a civil ceremony. They were remarried in a religious ceremony on 17 July 1981 at Laubach. Monika was a first cousin once removed of Ernest Augustus' first wife, Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, through her great-greandparents Bruno, Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen and Countess Bertha of Castell-Rüdenhausen.

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

8 August 1929 – 16 July 1981: Countess Monika of Solms-Laubach
16 July 1981 - 9 December 1987: "Her Royal Highness" The Princess of Hanover
9 December 1987 - present: "Her Royal Highness" The Dowager Princess of Hanover

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1=1. Countess Monika of Solms-Laubach
2=2. Georg Friedrich, Count of Solms-Laubach
3=3. Princess Johanna of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich
4=4. Otto, Count of Solms-Laubach
5=5. Princess Emma of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Büdingen
6=6. Karl, Prince of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich
7=7. Princess Emma of Stolberg-Wernigerode
8=8. Friedrich Wilhelm August Christian, Count of Solms-Laubach
9=9. Countess Marianne of Stolberg-Wernigerode
10=10. Bruno, Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen
11=11. Countess Bertha of Castell-Rüdenhause
12=12. Hermann, Prince of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich
13=13. Countess Agnes of Stolberg-Wernigerode
14=14. Otto, Prince of Stolberg-Wernigerode
15=15. Princess Anna Reuss of Köstritz
16=16. Otto, Count of Solms-Laubach
17=17. Princess Luitgarde of Wied
18=18. Wilhelm of Stolberg-Wernigerode, Count of Stolberg-Jannowitz
19=19. Countess Elisabeth of Stolberg-Rossla
20=20. Ernst Kasimir, Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen
21=21. Countess Thekla of Erbach-Fürstenau
22=22. Adolf, Hereditary Count of Castell-Rüdenhausen
23=23. Friederike Maria von Thüngen
24=24. Ferdinand, Prince of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich
25=25. Countess Caroline of Collalto and San Salvatore
26=26. Wilhelm of Stolberg-Wernigerode, Count of Stolberg-Jannowitz (= 18)
27=27. Countess Elisabeth of Stolberg-Rossla (= 19)
28=28. Hermann, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode
29=29. Countess Emma of Erbach-Fürstenau
30=30. Heinrich LXIII, Count Reuss of Köstritz
31=31. Countess Carolina of Stolberg-Wernigerode

-s-tul|title=Duchess consort of Cumberland and Teviotdale
years=16 July 1981 — 9 December 1987
reason=Titles Deprivation Act 1917
-s-tul|title=Queen consort of Hanover
years=16 July 1981 — 9 December 1987
reason=Hanover annexed by Prussia in 1866
-s-tul|title=Duchess consort of Brunswick
years=16 July 1981 — 9 December 1987
reason=Duchy abolished in 1918