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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 ...
On 30 April 1884 at Darmstadt in the presence of the Queen, Prince Louis married her granddaughter, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine. [39] His wife was the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria's second daughter Princess Alice and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine: 4. Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine: 9. Princess Elisabeth of Prussia: 2. Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine: 10. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: 5. Princess Alice of the United Kingdom: 11. Victoria of the United Kingdom: 1. Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine: 12.
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.
Queen Victoria described him as "so good and steady", with "such a safe and happy position", [17] Princess Elisabeth of Hesse, 1887. Other admirers included: Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (the poet KR), who wrote a poem about her first arrival in Russia and the general impression she made to all the people present at the time ...
Historic Royal Palaces has acquired one of the eight bridesmaids dresses at Queen Elizabeth’s wedding to Prince Philip 77 years ago.. The future monarch was still Princess Elizabeth when she ...
Queen Elizabeth II’s Evolution From Princess to the Longest-Reigning British Monarch Read article When Her Majesty, who died at age 96 on Thursday, September 8, married Prince Philip in 1947 ...