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}} Ernest Louis Charles Albert William ((ドイツ語:Ernst Ludwig Karl Albrecht Wilhelm); 25 November 1868 – 9 October 1937) was the last ''Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine'' from 1892 until 1918.〔 ''Paid subscription required to read the full article.''〕 His nickname was "Ernie". ==Early life== Ernest Louis was the fourth child and eldest son of Grand Duke Louis IV and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He was an older brother to Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna(née Alix of Hesse), empress consort of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Ernest Louis's early life was shrouded with death. When he was five, his younger brother Friedrich died. The two boys had been playing a game when the younger boy fell through a window onto the balcony twenty feet below. At first, Friedrich seemed only shaken. However, Friedrich suffered from haemophilia, and had begun bleeding in the brain. He lapsed into unconsciousness that afternoon and died. Ernest Louis was inconsolable. "When I die, you must die too, and all the others. Why can't we all die together? I don't want to die alone, like Frittie," he was telling his nurse. To his mother he said, "I dreamt that I was dead and was gone up to Heaven, and there I asked God to let me have Frittie again and he came to me and took my hand." The younger child's grave became a place of regular pilgrimage for the family, with Ernest Louis becoming obsessed with thoughts of death and dying alone. In 1878, an epidemic of diphtheria swept through Darmstadt. All the children (except Princess Elisabeth who was sent to stay with their paternal grandmother Princess Elizabeth of Prussia) and their father fell ill. Princess Alice cared for her sick husband and children, but on 16 November, the youngest of them, Princess May, died. Alice kept the news from her family for several weeks, until Ernest Louis, who was devoted to little May, asked for his sister. When his mother revealed May's death, Ernest Louis was overcome with grief. In comforting her grieving son, Alice kissed him, and within a week, she fell ill and soon died, on 14 December. Her death affected Ernest Louis for the rest of his life. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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