Princess Elisabeth of Saxony

She was born in Dresden, capital of Saxony, as daughter of King John of Saxony and his wife Princess Amalie of Bavaria. Her paternal grandparents were Prince Maximilian of Saxony and Carolina of Parma. Her maternal grandparents were King Maximilian I of Bavaria and Karoline of Baden. ==Marriages and issue==

On 22 April 1850, she married, in Dresden Cathedral, Prince Ferdinand, 1st Duke of Genoa, second son of King Charles Albert of Sardinia and Maria Theresa of Tuscany. Their marriage was a dynastic arrangement, and it was generally held to be loveless. The couple had two children: On 10 February 1855 her husband died in Turin, leaving Elizabeth a widow at the age of 25. Before her second year of widowhood had ended, she remarried on 4 October 1856 with her chamberlain Niccolò Bernoud, Marchese di Rapallo. They married secretly, before her period of official mourning was over. This act so infuriated her brother-in-law Victor Emmanuel II of Italy that he ordered her into virtual exile and disallowed her from seeing her two children. They were later reunited however. In 1882, her second husband committed suicide. Court gossip had often hinted that their marriage was unhappy, and his suicide added fuel to these stories. Elisabeth had no children from her second marriage. ==Death==

Elisabeth suffered an attack of apoplexy in 1910, which caused her health to quickly deteriorate. She died in Piedmont, Kingdom of Italy on 14 August 1912, at the age of 82. Out of her parents' six daughters, she was the only one to live past the age of thirty. ==Ancestry==