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  Henry, prince of Battenberg - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896), was the third son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and his morganatic wife, the beautiful Countess Julia von Hauke, to whom was granted in 1858 the title of princess of Battenberg, which her children inherited.
By their relationship to the grand dukes of Hesse the princes of B attenberg were brought into close contact with the English court, and Prince Henry paid several visits to England, where he soon became popular both in public and in private circles.
On the 31st of July 1885 a bill to naturalize Prince Henry was passed by the House of Lords, and he received the title of royal highness.
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 Princess Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg
Princess Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg (14 April 1857 - 26 October 1944), was the fifth daugther and the youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Prince Henry was the third son of His Grand Ducal Highness Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (1823-1888) by his morganatic marriage to Julie Therese, Countess von Hauke (1825-1895), the daughter of a Polish politician.
Prince Henry of Battenberg died of a fever he contracted while on active military duty in the second Ashanti War, leaving Princess Henry a widow at the age of 38.
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 Prince Henry of Battenberg
Prince Henry of Battenberg, KG, PC (5 October 1858-20 January 1896) was a descendant of the Grand Ducal House of Hesse and by Rhine who became a member of the British Royal Family through his marriage to Princess Beatrice, the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
His Illustrious Highness Count Henry (Heinrich) Maurice of Battenberg was born in Milan, the third son of His Grand Ducal Highness Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (1823-1888) by his morganatic marriage to Julie Therese née Countess von Hauke (1825-1895), the daughter of a Polish politician.
Prince Henry and Princess Beatrice married on 23 July 1885 at St. Mildred's Church, Whippingham on the Isle of Wight.
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 Prince Louis of Battenberg - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
His Illustrious Highness Count Louis (Ludwig) Alexander of Battenberg was born in Graz, Austria, the eldest son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (1823-1888) by his morganatic marriage to Countess Julia von Hauke (1825-1895), the daughter of a Polish politician.
One of his younger brothers, Prince Alexander of Battenberg (1857-1893), became the reigning Prince of Bulgaria from 1879 to 1886, and another, Prince Henry of Battenberg (1858-1896), married Princess Beatrice of Great Britain and Ireland, the youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Prince Louis rose to the rank of captain and became an aide-de-camp to the Queen in 1891.
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 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Henry was born on 5 October 1858 in Milan, Italy.
His father was Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, the third son and fourth child of Grand Duke Ludwig II of Hesse and Wilhelmina of Baden.
In 1884, Prince Henry became engaged to The Princess Beatrice, the fifth daughter and the youngest child of Queen Victoria and Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
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 Knights of the Garter - Prince Henry of Battenberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Knights of the Garter - Prince Henry of Battenberg
Prince Henry of Battenberg (Henry Maurice) (5 October 1858-20 January 1896) was a descendant of the Grand Ducal House of Hesse, and later became a member of the British Royal Family through his marriage to Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, the youngest daughter of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
In 1884, Prince Henry became engaged to Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, the fifth daughter and the youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
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 News | Gainesville.com | The Gainesville Sun | Gainesville, Fla.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Prince Alexander (1823 - 1888) was the third son Grand Duke Louis II of Hesse and by Rhine and of Wilhelmina of Baden.
One son of this marriage, Prince Henry of Battenberg, married The Princess Beatrice, the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria; their daughter, Victoria Eugenia Julia, became queen consort of Spain.
Prince Louis II's earldom was inherited by his daughter, Lady Patricia Mountbatten, thereafter Countess Mountbatten of Burma and Baroness Romsey (born in 1924).
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 Baden-Powell, The Downfall of Prempeh, 1895
Prince Christian Victor, a grandson of Queen Victoria, and Prince Henry of Battenberg, the Queen's son-in-law.
Prince Henry of Battenberg was the husband of Beatrice of Great Britain, Princess of Battenberg and a daughter of Queen Victoria.
Prince Henry and the rest of the troop continued their way to Kwisu, forty miles from Kumassi.
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 St. Mildred's Church, Whippingham, Isle of Wight - The Battenberg Chapel
The Prince was married in this church, on 23rd July 1885, to the Queen's ninth and longest surviving child, Princess Beatrice (or 'Baby' as she was known in the family).
Prince Henry was the 3rd son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and the Rhine, by his wife Countess Julia von Hauke.
Prince Henry belonged to a branch of one of the oldest families in Christendom.
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 Prince Louis of Battenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At the behest of King George V, Prince Louis relinquished the title Prince of Battenberg in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, as also the style of Serene Highness, on 14 July 1917.
His three younger children ceased to use their princely titles and assumed courtesy titles as children of a British marquess; his eldest daughter, Princess Alice, had married into the Greek royal family in 1903, and never had occasion to use the surname Mountbatten.
Prince Louis' younger son, styled Lord Louis Mountbatten after 1917, was created Viscount Mountbatten of Burma in 1946 and then Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey in 1947.
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 PRINCE OF BATTENBERG H... - Online Information article about PRINCE OF BATTENBERG H...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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January he seemed to recover slightly, but a relapse occurred on the 19th, and he died on the evening of the loth off the coast of Sierra Leone.
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 Gatorsports.com :: 100 years of Gator Football   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Princess Beatrice (also Princess Henry of Battenberg; Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore; 14 April 1857 - 26 October 1944) was a member of the British Royal Family, the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria, famous for editing the journals and diaries of Queen Victoria after her death.
Prince Henry of Battenberg died in 1896 of a fever he contracted while on active military duty in the second Ashanti War, leaving Beatrice a widow at the age of 38.
Her remains were transferred later to the Battenberg Chapel at St Mildred's Churchon the Isle of Wight on 28 August 1945.
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 The Tecks and Battenbergs
This prince accompanied his sister Marie to St. Petersburg in 1841, where she was to wed the future Czar Alexander II; he entered the Russian army, and later met and fell in love with Julie von Hauke (1825-95), whom he married in 1851.
Prince Henry Maurice (1858-96), younger brother of Louis Alexander, was a cavalry lieutenant in the Saxon army from 1877 to 1882 and in the Prussian army 1882 to 1885.
Prince Viktor was a nephew of Queen Victoria through his mother Feodora of Leiningen, half-sister of the Queen.
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 21ST GENERATION
Princess Beatrice of ENGLAND was born in 1857 in England - dtr of Victoria and Albert.
She was married to Prince Henry Maurice of BATTENBERG (son of Prince Alexander of HESSE-DARMSTADT and Julia Theresa Countess von HAUCK Princess of Battenberg) in 1885.
Leopold of BATTENBERG was born in 1889 in England - son of Henry of Battenburg.
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 Nice girls didn't curtsey to Wallis - smh.com.au
In 1906 he married Princess Victoria Eugenia (Ena), a morganatic Battenberg princess, whose mother was Queen Victoria's youngest daughter, and whose father, Prince Henry of Battenberg, had been obliged to live with his mother-in-law, Queen Victoria, in order that she consent to the union.
Ena had irritated her Battenberg cousins by waving all too regally from the carriage at the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.
Then came the Infanta Beatriz, all too soon followed by a stillborn boy, then her sister, Maria Cristina, the Count of Barcelona, whose son Juan Carlos became King of Spain on the death of General Franco in 1975, was next and finally Gonzalo, also a haemophiliac.
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 Royal Insight > March 2003 > Mailbox > Page 3
Princess Beatrice was born on 14 April 1857 and was the youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
In 1885, she married Prince Henry of Battenberg and, at her mother's insistence, the couple made their home with her.
So, Prince Charles and Princess Anne could not style themselves HRH or Prince or Princess through their father, as by the time of their birth, he himself did not hold such titles.
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 QUEEN VICTORIA: IMAGES OF HER WORLD
Marriage of Princess Alice and Prince Louis of Hesse at Osborne in 1862
Lily Langtry, one of the Prince of Wales' mistresses
Prince Eddy, Duke of Clarence and Avondale in 1885
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 Royal Styles and Titles of Great Britain: Documents
Prince Leopold remained in London until 1830 when, after turning down the throne of Greece in February, he accepted the throne of Belgium where he reigned as Leopold I. His sister had married the duke of Kent and hence Queen Victoria was his niece.
Prince Ludwig of Hesse (1837-92) was the nephew of grand-duke Ludwig III of Hesse-Darmstadt.
Prince Ernst August was born before the letters patent of 1914 which declared that his designation should be "Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland." Thus, if he was a "born Prince of Great Britain", it was not by virtue of the letters patent of 1914.
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 Princess Beatrice, daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Henry Battenberg: 1885 - The Royal Forums
THE BACK: (L-R): Prince Alexander "Sandro" of Bulgaria, brother of the groom; Princess Louise of Wales (Bertie and Alexandra's daughter); Princess Irene of Hesse (Alice and Louis's daughter); Princess Victoria "Toria" of Wales (Bertie and Alexandra's second daughter); Prince Franz Joseph of Battenberg, brother of the groom.
She married Prince Henry of Battenberg in 1885.
Prince Juan Carlos of Spain and Princess Sofia of Greece 1962
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 Royal Family Archives - Louis of Battenberg to Mary Adelaide
NOTES: Prince Michael relinquished his place in the line of succession because of his marriage to a divorced Catholic, but Buckingham Palace subsequently announced that his children would still be eligible to succeed to the throne.
NOTES: Prince William of Wales; Prince William Arthur Philip Louis; Born at 9:03 pm; Weighed 7 lbs 1 1/2 oz at birth.
Prince Charles likes to call him "Willie Wombat," but many people have pointed out that it is an unsuitably slothful name for so active a child.
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 The Former Ruling House of Bulgaria (Battenberg), 1939-1945
Elected Prince of Bulgaria in 1879 and abdicated in 1886.
Sons of Prince Alexander of Hesse and the Rhine (1823-1888) by his morganatic marriage
Alexander Mountbatten, Marquess of Carisbrooke, né Prince of
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 PBS : Empires : Queen Victoria : History of a Realm : The Scramble for Africa
For Victoria, who would never venture farther south from England than France and Italy, it was a tactile introduction to the Empire that she would never see, a trip into her imperial fantasies.
Leaning upon the Prince of Wales, and upon her oaken walking stick, she progressed through exhibitors "in the richest, brightest costumes," was greeted by salaams, and by bands that struck up as she passed them.
Then she went on to the Albert Hall for a formal celebration of the occasion, with an ode for the occasion by Lord Tennyson set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan.
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 Yvonne's Royalty Home Page: Books about Queen Victoria and Her Family
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia: The Rebel Prince, by Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1952)
HRH The Prince of Wales’s Watercolours, by Charles, Prince of Wales (1991)
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 Chloroform, toxic to humans, was used with Queen Victoria's 7th child, Prince Leopold
Prince Leopold George Duncan was born in 1853.
She married Prince Henry of Battenberg in 1885, despite Queen Victoria's disapproval of the match.
Only Prince Leopold George Duncan died early at the age of 30, (1853-1883).
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 GoldenJubilee
Fritz, the Crown Prince of Germany outshone the other princes with his golden beard and the German eagle on his helmet; despite he was without voice because of a throat cancer, he had insisted in attending the Jubilee.
On January 14th, 1892 (again that terrible 14th), Queen Victoria received a terrible news; hewr grandson, Prince Albert Victor, the Prince of Wales's eldest son and heir apparent to the throne, died of pneumonia.
The Queen's first friction with Gladstone in his new Ministery, was when the Minister intended to bring into the Cabinet an old enemy of she, Henry Labouchere, whose newspapaer "Thruth" had published several attacks against the Royal family.
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 McGonagall Online: The Funeral of the Late Prince Henry of Battenberg
The Funeral of the Late Prince Henry of Battenberg
Prince Henry was buried at Whippingham- a solemn sight to see.
Prince Henry's charger was led by Richter, his stud groom;
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