Career

She was the mother of William II of Württemberg. Her two siblings were Charles I of Württemberg and Augusta, Princess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. She also had two half-siblings from her father"s previous marriage to Catherine Pavlovna of Russia: Marie and Sophie, the future Queen consort of the Netherlands.

Frederick died in 1870.

In the 1880s, Catherine was described as a "portly, austere old widowed Princess..who had a red, mannish face, and habitually dressed in purple and mauve". She frequently resided in the Villa Seefeld, which was located in Switzerland.

In this location, she was a neighbor of her relatives, the Tecks, who included the future Queen Mary of the United Kingdom.