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He was the first great-great-great-grandchild of Queen Victoria. He was killed at age six in an airplane crash in 1937. The plane crashed into a factory chimney near Ostend, Belgium.
Some have considered the Hessian family victims of a family curse because of the number of premature deaths in the family.
Ludwig was a great-nephew of Tsarina Alexandra and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, both of whom were killed with family members during the Russian Revolution of 1917.