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Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, then Princess Louis of Battenberg, later Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven (5 April 1863 – 24 September 1950), was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
With both of the leading candidates now discounted, Princess Victoria suggested Prince Louis of Hesse, a minor German royal, the nephew of the Grand Duke of Hesse. Princess Victoria had gone to the court of Hesse to inspect Louis's sister, Princess Anna, as a potential bride for her brother, the Prince of Wales. Although not favourably ...
Victoria of the United Kingdom: 1. Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine: 12. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (= 10) 6. Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: 13. Victoria of the United Kingdom (= 11) 3. Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: 14. Alexander II of Russia: 7. Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia: 15.
Victoria became Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, Ernest having ascended the throne in 1892. [15] Together Victoria and Ernst had two children, a daughter, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, who they nicknamed Ella, born on 11 March 1895, and a stillborn son, born on 25 May 1900. [citation needed] Victoria and Ernest proved incompatible.
Louis married Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. They had four children: Alice, Louise, George, and Louis. Louise later became Queen of Sweden, while the younger Louis served as First Sea Lord, like his father, from 1954 to 1959.
A great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Princess Alice of Battenberg, the eldest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse, was born in Windsor Castle in 1885.
Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg was born on 24 October 1887 at Balmoral Castle, in Scotland.Her father was Prince Henry of Battenberg, the fourth child and third son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and Julia, Princess of Battenberg, and her mother was Princess Beatrice, the fifth daughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark: 12. Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine [66] 6. Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine [63] 13. Princess Elisabeth of Prussia [66] 3. Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine: 14. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha [63] 7. Princess Alice of the United Kingdom [63] 15. Victoria, Queen of the ...