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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.
Edwin Landseer, Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Titania and Bottom, 1851, National Gallery of Victoria. Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Titania and Bottom is an 1851 oil-on-canvas painting by British artist Edwin Landseer. Landseer was mainly known for his paintings of animals: this is his only painting of a fairy scene.
Victoria, the Princess Royal and first child of Victoria and Albert (21 November 1840 – 5 August 1901), known as "Vicky", was not only the mother to their first grandchild, Wilhelm II; she was also the first of Victoria and Albert's children to become a grandparent, with the birth in 1879 of Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, who was the ...
Titania (/ t ɪ ˈ t ɑː n i ə /) [1] is a character in William Shakespeare's 1595–1596 play A Midsummer Night's Dream. In the play, she is the Queen of the fairies and wife of the Fairy King, Oberon. The pair are depicted as powerful natural spirits who together guarantee the fertility or health of the human and natural worlds.
Then, in the year before her marriage, the queen commissioned a portrait of herself. [9] He taught both Victoria and Albert to etch, [10] and made portraits of Victoria's children as babies, usually in the company of a dog. [11] He also made two portraits of Victoria and Albert dressed for costume balls, at which he was a guest himself. [12]
Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester. Born: April 25, 1776. Died: April 30, 1857. Queen Charlotte and King George's 4th daughter, Princess Mary, outlived all of her siblings.
The most obvious of Queen Victoria's descendants is, naturally, the current queen of England. Directly descended from Edward VII, Queen Elizabeth is Victoria's great-great granddaughter.
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