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The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-297-84794-6. Hawksley, Lucinda (2013). The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter. London: Chatto and Windus. ISBN 0701183497; Hubbard, R. H. (1977). Rideau Hall. Montreal and London: McGill-Queen's ...
In 1888, Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine, whose mother was Queen Victoria's daughter Alice, married Prince Henry of Prussia, son of Victoria's daughter Victoria. Another of Alice's children, Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse , married Princess Victoria Melita , daughter of Alice's brother Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , in 1894, but ...
Victoria's eldest daughter became empress consort of Germany in 1888, but she was widowed a little over three months later, and Victoria's eldest grandchild became German Emperor as Wilhelm II. Victoria and Albert's hopes of a liberal Germany would go unfulfilled, as Wilhelm was a firm believer in autocracy.
This story was published in May 2022, ahead of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee. On September 8, 2022, ... herself the daughter of Queen Victoria's son, Prince Alfred.
Louis Mountbatten, son of Alice's eldest daughter, Victoria, was the last Viceroy of India. He was assassinated by the IRA in 1979. [81] Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, her great-grandson through Victoria's daughter Princess Alice of Battenberg, married Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. [82]
Princess Victoria 1868–1935: Maud of Wales 1869–1938: Haakon VII King of Norway 1872–1957: Prince Alexander John of Wales 1871: Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor 1896–1986: King Edward VIII Duke of Windsor 1894–1972 r. 1936: King George VI 1895–1952 r. 1936–1952: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother 1900–2002: Mary, Princess Royal ...
Louise is the youngest of Queen Elizabeth’s granddaughters and the daughter of Prince Edward and Sophie, the Countess of Wessex. Louise, 17, occasionally appears at royal events alongside her ...
Painting by William Powell Frith depicting the marriage of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), Queen Victoria's son, with Princess Alexandra of Denmark, King Christian IX's daughter. The royal descendants of Queen Victoria (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901; r. 1837–1901) and of King Christian IX (8 April 1818 – 29 January 1906; r.