Albertine of Brandenburg-Schwedt

Sophie Friederike Albertine of Bradenburg-Schwedt was born in Berlin on 21 April 1712 as the third daughter of Prince Albert Frederick of Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt and Princess Maria Dorothea Kettler of Courland. Her mother was a daughter of Frederick Casimir Kettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia and Countess Sophie Amalie of Nassau-Siegen. Her paternal grandparents were Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg and Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.^{[citation needed]}

On 22 May 1733 she married Victor Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg in Potsdam, becoming the Princess Consort of Anhalt-Bernburg.^[1] She was his second wife.^[1] His first wife, Princess Louise of Anhalt-Dessau, had died the year before in childbirth.^[1] Albertine and Victor Frederick had five children:^{[citation needed]}

• Frederick Albert, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1735 - 1796)
• Charlotte Wilhelmine, Princess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1737 - 1777)
• Princess Marie Karoline of Anhalt-Bernburg (1739 - 1739)
• Friederike August Sophie, Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst (1744 - 1827)
• Christine Elisabeth Albertine, Princess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1746 - 1823)

She died on 7 September 1750 in Bernburg.^{[citation needed]} She was buried in the crypt of the Castle Church of St. Aegidien.^{[citation needed]}