On 27 September 1755 in
Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, Anna Elisabeth Louise married her uncle
Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, a younger brother of her mother,
Sophia Dorothea. He was eight years older than she and was a younger son of
Frederick William I of Prussia and
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (herself the only daughter of
George I of Great Britain). The biological father of her daughter Louise, who was born in 1770, may have been Count
Friedrich Wilhelm Carl von Schmettau. Louise was described as nice, witty and kind. The Swedish Princess
Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte described her at the time of her visit in 1798: In the afternoon, we visited this Princess, who lives at
Bellevue in the outskirts of Berlin. It is a little villa, very suitable for a private person but far from royal. The reception here was quite dissimilar from the one at
my aunt. Princess Ferdinand is stiff and made it obvious that she wished to impress us. I was of course polite, but after I had noticed, that she took on a condescending tone and wished to embarrass me, I replied the same way and displayed the same haughtiness. The Princess is no longer young, has surely been beautiful, looks like an aristocratic Frenchwoman but not like a Princess, for she has nothing royal about her. I do not think she is that clever, but she can make a pleasant conversation and is quite confident, as one becomes through a long habit of socializing in the grand world. Anna Elisabeth Louise was one of the few members of the royal house to remain in Berlin during the French occupation in 1806. While most of the royal family left, reportedly because of the anti-Napoleonic criticism they had expressed, and the members of the royal court either followed them or left the capital for their country estates, Elisabeth Louise remained with her spouse and
Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel because of "their great age", as did
Princess Augusta of Prussia, who was pregnant at the time. One visitor to her in 1813–1814 commented that, "I never saw such a formal, stiff, disagreeable old woman -
vieille cour outree, and she frightened me to death. I was glad to get away...". ==Death==