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Ernest in 1879 with his grandmother Queen Victoria and sisters Victoria, Elizabeth, Irene and Alix two months after the deaths of their mother and youngest sister. All are wearing mourning clothes . Ernest Louis was the elder son of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom , daughter of Queen Victoria ...
Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine [90] 9. Princess Wilhelmine of Baden [91] 2. Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine [89] 10. Prince Wilhelm of Prussia [92] 5. Princess Elisabeth of Prussia [90] 11. Landgravine Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg [92] 1. Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia: 12. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ...
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.
Bowing to family pressure, Victoria married her paternal first cousin Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, in 1894. The marriage failed – Victoria scandalized the royal families of Europe when she divorced her husband in 1901. The couple's only child, Princess Elisabeth, died of typhoid fever in 1903.
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 ...
Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse [35] 4. Prince Karl of Hesse and by Rhine [34] 9. Princess Wilhelmine of Baden [35] 2. Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse: 10. Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851) [36] 5. Princess Elizabeth of Prussia [34] 11. Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg [36] 1. Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine: 12. Ernest I, Duke of ...
Her mother was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, the Queen's second daughter. Her father was the eldest son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine through his morganatic marriage to Countess Julia Hauke , who was created Princess of Battenberg in 1858 by Louis III, Grand Duke of ...
Louis was born at the Prinz-Karl-Palais in Darmstadt, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine in the German Confederation, the first son and child of Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine (23 April 1809 – 20 March 1877) and Princess Elisabeth of Prussia (18 June 1815 – 21 March 1885), granddaughter of King Frederick William II of Prussia.