Background
Born in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany, Alexandra is the youngest daughter of Ernest Augustus IV, Prince of Hanover (1914–1987) and his wife Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1925–1980).
Born in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany, Alexandra is the youngest daughter of Ernest Augustus IV, Prince of Hanover (1914–1987) and his wife Princess Ortrud of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1925–1980).
Titles and styles 18 February 1959 – 5 October 1981: Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Hanover 5 October 1981 – 30 October 1991: Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Leiningen, Princess of Hanover 30 October 1991 – present: Her Royal Highness The Princess of Leiningen, Princess of Hanover, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
In addition, members of her family sometimes use the style Prince/Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, in contravention of the Titles Deprivation Acting 1917, which stripped them of this right.