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Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (Louisa Caroline Alberta; 18 March 1848 – 3 December 1939) was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In her public life, she was a strong proponent of the arts and higher education and of the feminist cause.
Princess Louisa was born on 19 March 1749, at Leicester House, Westminster, London, and was christened there on 11 April. Her father was Frederick, Prince of Wales , eldest son of George II and Caroline of Ansbach .
A miniature portrait of a young Princess Louise, by Christian Friedrich Zincke, 1730s (The Royal Collection).. Princess Louise was born as the fifth daughter and youngest child of the then Prince and Princess of Wales, on 18 December [O.S. 7 December] 1724, at Leicester House, Westminster, London. [3]
Louisa Maria Stuart (1692–1712), daughter of James II, King of England and English and Scottish princess; Louise of Great Britain (1724–1751), queen consort of Denmark and British princess by birth, originally called Louisa
Victoria, Princess Royal (Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa; [1] 21 November 1840 – 5 August 1901) was German Empress and Queen of Prussia as the wife of Frederick III, German Emperor. She was the eldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and was created Princess Royal in 1841.
Archduchess Louise of Austria (2 September 1870, in Salzburg – 23 March 1947, in Brussels) was by marriage Crown Princess of Saxony as the wife of the future King Frederick Augustus III. Louise was born in Salzburg to the exiled Grand Duke of Tuscany and his second wife, Alice grew up in a relatively informal household.
Princess Louise of Prussia in 1856, portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter Grand Duchess Louise of Baden, 1860s Louise was a great friend of Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse , her sister-in-law's younger sister; i.e., Alice was the sister of Victoria, Louise's brother Frederick William's wife, both sisters being daughters of Queen Victoria.
Louisa Maria was born in 1692, at Saint-Germain-en-Laye in France, four years after her father had fled England never to return. [3] Owing to the huge controversy which had surrounded the birth of her brother, James Francis Edward, with accusations of the substitution of another baby in a warming pan following a still-birth, James II had sent letters inviting not only his daughter, Queen Mary ...