The Baby was put under the protection of her Grandmother Augusta and adopted out.

Queen Victoria wrote Grand Duchess Augusta, that she had heard about Marie's situation from Empress Friedrich. "I believe she has done much harm in writing to all the Courts "Marie's parents showed no concern nor care for her situation, and they kicked her out of the palace. "It is two awful & shameful & almost sinful to send poor Baby away. I hear fm a reliable source that the family have forbidden that poor unhappy girl's name ever being mentioned… I think it is too wicked" Queen Victoria wrote.

Young Marie found a champion in her grandmother, Augusta, who believed Marie was innocent. She was convinced that Hecht had terrorized Marie. Queen Victoria thought she may have been drugged by the footman. The British Royal family took in the poor countess and were very supportive and loving to her

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5 comments

  1. She was 19. I think we just call that a woman sleeping with a man because she was a horny 19 year old.

  2. Where’d the baby go? Someone is running around now with that royal blood and has no idea! Maybe it’s me.

  3. So sad, wish we could know what became of the child but I hope he had a good life. Marie seemed to get her happily ever after with her second husband.

  4. Marie’s grandmother Augusta was Queen Mary’s (then Duchess of York) maternal aunt. Augusta wrote to her niece and May got her hubby, the Prince of wales and Queen Victoria (herself Augusta’s cousin) on Marie’s side. May went out driving publicly with the young woman. And when he parents got her married off to Count Jametel, the British royals were present at the wedding in England.

    The whole affair had a tragic and dynasty impacting coda. Her brother Karl Borwin challenged the abusive and unfaithful Jametel to a duel over his sister. The 18 year old Karl Borwin was killed. As their brother Adolf Friedrich died by suicide in 1918 with no heir the Duchy went to a distant cousin.

  5. “taken advantage of” is an interesting new way to describe *rape*.

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