Rosalie von Rauch, was a German noblewoman and since 1853, Countess of Hohenau.
Background
Born in Berlin, she was the only daughter of Prussian General and Minister of War Gustav von Rauch by his second wife Rosalie von Holtzendorff. Rosalie was a maid of honor of Princess Marianne of Prussia, wife of Prince Albert, youngest son of King Frederick William III of Prussia.
Career
Almost two weeks before the wedding, on 28 May, Rosalie was already created Countess of Hohenau (in German: Gräfinance von Hohenau). The couple resided for some time in Meiningen, at the side of Albert"s oldest daughter, Hereditary Princess Charlotte, and later moved to a vineyard in Loschwitz near Dresden, Saxony, where Albert had a residence, Albrechtsberg Castle, erected in 1854. After Albert"s second eldest brother William I became King of Prussia in 1861, the family circumstances were relaxed.
After her husband"s death Rosalie lived in retirement at Albrechtsberg Castle, where she died, aged 58.
Bernhard Wilhelm Albrecht Frederick, Count of Hohenau (b Albrechtsberg Castle, 21 May 1857 - d Ochelhermsdorf, 15 April 1914), married in Berbisdorf on 21 June 1881 to Charlotte von der Decken (b Melkdorf, 23 April 1863 - d Berlin, 30 January 1933). Over ten years after Rosalie"s death, her daughter-in-law Charlotte was involved in the "Kotze scandal", which lasted from the autumn of 1892 until the summer of 1894.
Her son Fritz"s wife was rumoured to be having an affair with Fritz"s cousin Emperor Wilhelm World War II