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{{Short description|Hereditary Princess of Monaco (1850&ndash;1922)}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton
| title = [[Hereditary Princess of Monaco]]
| image = Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton, Hereditary Princess of Monaco (cropped).jpg
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1850|12|11}}
| birth_place = [[Hamilton Palace]], [[Scotland]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]]
| birth_name = Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1922|5|14|1850|12|11}}
| death_place = [[Budapest]], [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)|Hungary]]
| place of burial = Festetics Mausoleum
| house = [[House of Hamilton|Hamilton]]
| father = [[William Hamilton, 11th Duke of Hamilton]]
| mother = [[Princess Marie Amelie of Baden]]
| spouse = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[Albert I, Prince of Monaco|Albert, Hereditary Prince of Monaco]]<br>(later Albert I)|1869|1880|end=annulled}}
* {{marriage|[[Tasziló Festetics (Hungarian noble, born 1850)|Tassilo Festetics von Tolna]]<br>|1880}}
}}
| issue = [[Louis II, Prince of Monaco]]<br/>Countess Mária Matild Festetics de Tolna<br/>Prince György Tasziló Festetics de Tolna<br/>Countess Alexandra Olga Festetics de Tolna<br/>Countess Karola Friderika Festetics de Tolna
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'''Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton''', also known as '''Mary Victoria Hamilton'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p10128.htm#i101275 |title=Person Page 10128 |publisher=Thepeerage.com |date= |accessdate=27 February 2012}}</ref> (11 December 1850{{spaced ndash}}14 May 1922), was a [[Scottish people|Scottish]] noblewoman who was the Hereditary Princess of Monaco by marriage to [[Albert I, Prince of Monaco|Albert, Hereditary Prince of Monaco]].

==Life==
Lady Mary was born as the youngest child and the only daughter of [[William Hamilton, 11th Duke of Hamilton]] and of his wife, [[Princess Marie Amelie of Baden]].

===Hereditary Princess of Monaco===
Lady Mary's first marriage, on 21 September 1869 at [[Château de Marchais]], was to [[Albert I, Prince of Monaco|Prince Albert]], only child and heir apparent of [[Charles III, Prince of Monaco]].  The marriage was arranged upon the wish of the [[House of Grimaldi|Monegasque princely house]], as it had long been an ambition of his mother and grandmother to marry him to a member of the British royal house.<ref>Anne Edwards, ''The Grimaldis of Monaco'', 1992</ref>   While Queen Victoria refused a match between Albert and one of her closer family members, Lady Mary was suggested as a suitable replacement.<ref>Anne Edwards, ''The Grimaldis of Monaco'', 1992</ref> However, Lady Mary and Albert's marriage was annulled on 3 January 1880 and civilly dissolved on 28 July 1880 by order of Charles III. Lady Mary supposedly hated the heat of the Mediterranean area.

Lady Mary and Albert had a single son, [[Louis II, Prince of Monaco|Louis]], who would take the throne of [[Monaco]] with the [[regnal name]] ''Louis II'' upon his father's death. Via Louis II, Lady Mary is the great-great-grandmother of the current Sovereign Prince of Monaco, [[Albert II, Prince of Monaco|Albert II]].

===Life in Hungary===
[[File:Keszthely Festetics Schloss Gartenseite.JPG|thumb|left|180px|Festetics Palace]]
Lady Mary’s second marriage, on 2 June 1880, was to [[Tasziló Festetics (Hungarian noble, born 1850)|Count Tassilo Festetics de Tolna]]. The couple had four children, Countess Mária Matild Georgina (1881–1953), who married Prince Karl Emil von [[House of Fürstenberg (Swabia)|Fürstenberg]];
[[:hu:Festetics György (diplomata)|Prince György]] (1882–1941); Countess Alexandra Olga Eugénia (1884–1963), who married Prince Karl von [[Windisch-Graetz]]; and Countess Karola Friderika Mária (1888—1951), who married [[Paul Gautsch von Frankenthurn#Private life|Oskar Gautsch Freiherr von Frankenthurn]].

During her 40-year marriage to Count, later Prince, Tassilo [[Festetics family|Festetics de Tolna]], Lady Mary oversaw the enlargement and improvement of the main family seat, [[Festetics Palace]], and its gardens, in [[Keszthely]], western Hungary.

On numerous occasions, she and her husband entertained her brother the [[William Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton|Duke of Hamilton]] and his great friend the [[Edward VII|Prince of Wales]]. There are still portraits hanging in the Palace of numerous members of her family, including one of her father in full [[Highland dress]]. Outside the palace, on either side of the main entrance, there are the [[armorial bearings]] of both Lady Mary and her husband.

The Helikon Library at the Palace contains many works that were brought to Keszthely by Lady Mary from her father’s and brother's collections at Hamilton Palace.

The Palace grounds, on the shores of [[Lake Balaton]], contains a Festetics family Mausoleum which is the final resting place of Lady Mary and her husband.

==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton'''
|2= 2. [[William Hamilton, 11th Duke of Hamilton]]
|3= 3. [[Princess Marie Amelie of Baden]]
|4= 4. [[Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton]]
|5= 5. Susan Beckford
|6= 6. [[Charles, Grand Duke of Baden]]
|7= 7. [[Stéphanie de Beauharnais]]
|8= 8. [[Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton]]
|9= 9. [[Lady Harriet Stewart]]
|10= 10. [[William Thomas Beckford]]
|11= 11. Lady Margaret Gordon
|12= 12. [[Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden]]
|13= 13. [[Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt]]
|14= 14. [[Claude de Beauharnais (1756–1819)|Claude de Beauharnais, 2nd Count des Roches-Baritaud]]
|15= 15. Claudine Françoise de Lézay-Marnézia
|16= 16. [[James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton]]
|17= 17. [[Anne Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton|Anne Spencer]]
|18= 18. [[Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway]]
|19= 19. [[Lady Catherine Cochrane]]
|20= 20. [[William Beckford (politician)|William Beckford]]
|21= 21. Maria Hamilton
|22= 22. [[Charles Gordon, 4th Earl of Aboyne]]
|23= 23. [[Lady Margaret Stewart]]
|24= 24. [[Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden]]
|25= 25. [[Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt]]
|26= 26. [[Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt]]
|27= 27. [[Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken|Countess Palatine Henriette Caroline of Zweibrücken]]
|28= 28. [[Claude de Beauharnais (1717–1784)|Claude de Beauharnais, 1st Count des Roches-Baritaud]]
|29= 29. [[Fanny de Beauharnais|Marie-Anne-Françoise Mouchard]]
|30= 30. Claude François de Lézay-Marnézia, 3rd Marquis of Lézay
|31= 31. Marie Claudine de Nettancourt-Vaubécourt
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