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Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia (born Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine; 1 November 1864 – 18 July 1918) was a German Hessian and Rhenish princess of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, and the wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, the fifth son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine.
In November 1920, at the request of Elizabeth Feodorovna's sister, Princess Victoria von Battenberg, and in fulfillment of her own wish to be buried in the Holy Land, two coffins (Grand Duchess Elizabeth and Sister Barbara) were transported from Beijingg to Tianjin, then to Shanghai, and from there by sea through the Suez Canal to Port Said and ...
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom: 11. 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 Duke Sergei and his wife, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna. In 1881 there had been talks of a possible marriage to Princess Caroline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein. [18] Emperor Alexander II had hoped that at least one of his sons would marry a princess of Hesse as he had done.
Then-Princess Elizabeth's father chose to take a new regnal name at the start of his reign, and opted for King George VI, creating continuity from his late father. His wife Elizabeth, Duchess of ...
Took the name Elizabeth Feodorovna upon her baptism into the Russian Orthodox Church, m. 15 June 1884 Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (11 May 1857 – 17 February 1905), the seventh child and fifth son of Tsar Alexander II of Russia; had no issue. [89] [90] Irene Louise Marie Anne: 11 July 1866: 11 November 1953
On February 6, 1952, Princess Elizabeth became the queen of England, a position that she has held for the last 70 years, and one which she will be celebrating with a Platinum Jubilee (the first ...
Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her coronation, Buckingham Palace, 1953. The Print Collector/Getty Images At the age of 25, Queen Elizabeth II — then known as Princess Elizabeth — pledged to ...