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Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, reigned from 1892 to 1918 and was the last ruler of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. A grandson of Queen Victoria and brother of Empress Alexandra of Russia, he was a keen patron of the arts and in 1899 founded the Darmstadt Artists' Colony on the Mathildenhöhe, a centre of Jugendstil. He was deposed in the revolution of November 1918.
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