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  Princess Helena of Waldeck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Princess Helena Frederica of Waldeck and Pyrmont (17 February 1861 - 1 September 1922) was the daughter of George Victor of Waldeck-Pyrmont (1831-1893) and his wife Helene Wilhelmine of Nassau-Weilburg (1831-1888).
She was born in Arolsen, capital of Waldeck principality, in Germany.
Princess Helena of Waldeck-Pyrmont died in Hinterris in the Tyrol, in Austria.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Princess_Helena_of_Waldeck   (180 words)

  
 british monarchy - mong09 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Princess Victoria Alberta of Hesse was born in 1863 and died in 1950.
Princess Irene of Hesse was born in 1866 and died in 1953.
Princess Alice of Athlone was born in 1883 and died in Jan 1981.
freepages.history.rootsweb.com /~wakefield/monarchy/mong09.htm   (886 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
She was born on May 24, 1819, to Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent (fourth son of King George III) and Princess Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, sister of King Leopold I of the Belgians and widow of HSH Emich, 2nd Prince of Leiningen.
After Princess Charlotte's death in 1817, there was a scramble by George III's younger sons to abandon their mistresses, marry, and beget an heir to the realm.
Source: report of a conversation with Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom in which she talked of the health problems of Prince William of Gloucester.
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 Princess Alice of Albany Biography
Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (25 February 1883 - 3 January 1981), was the daughter of HRH Prince Leopold George Duncan, Duke of Albany; and Princess Helena Frederica of Waldeck.
Princess Alice, however, was a princess of Great Britain and Ireland and a Royal Highness in her own right, as a male-line granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone remains the longest-lived British princess of the blood royal and the oldest surviving granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
www.biographybase.com /biography/Alice_of_Albany_Princess.html   (391 words)

  
 Articles - Princess Alice of Albany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone GCVO GBE VA (née Princess Alice of Albany) (25 February 1883–3 January 1981), was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
Princess Alice Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline was born on February 25, 1883 at Windsor Castle.
On February 10, 1904, Princess Alice of Albany married Prince Alexander of Teck, the brother of Queen Mary, in St George's Chapel, Windsor.
www.scannera.com /articles/Princess_Alice_of_Albany   (555 words)

  
 Victoria of the United Kingdom - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
When Princess Victoria of Kent was eleven years old, her uncle, George IV, died childless, leaving the Throne to his brother, William IV.
As the new King was childless, the young Princess Victoria became heiress-presumptive to the Throne.
Princess Victoria met her future husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, when she was sixteen years old.
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 FIFTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
He was married to Princess Helena Frederica of Waldeck-Pyrmont on 27 Apr 1882 in St. George Chapel.
Princess Helena Frederica of Waldeck-Pyrmont was born on 17 Feb 1861 in Arolsen.
Princess Alice of Albany was born on 25 Feb 1883 in Windsor.
www.royalgenealogy.com /d57.htm   (89 words)

  
 PBS : Empires : Queen Victoria : Her Majesty : Her Children
Princess Helena was also known as "Lenchen." She was born a "blue baby," possibly because her mother was at the height of anxiety over the loss of her first trusted Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel.
Princess Louise was determined when she got to marriageable age not to follow the route her sister had; Princess Victoria had married a German Prince, and her royal duties stopped her from pursuing her artistic aspirations.
Prince Leopold married Princess Helena Frederica of Waldeck.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (25February 1883 - 3 January 1981), was the daughter of HRH Prince Leopold George Duncan, Duke of Albany ; and Princess Helena Frederica of Waldeck.
Princess Alice, however, was a princess ofGreat Britain and Ireland and a Royal Highness in her own right, as a male-line granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
Princess Alice lived on there until 1981 when she herself passed away.She died at age 97 years and 312 days, making her the longest-lived member of the British Royal Family until Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother broke the record in 1997.
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 Princess Helena of Waldeck
She was born in Arolsen, in Waldeck, in Germany.
On 27 April 1882 in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, she married HRH Prince Leopold George Duncan Albert of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence and Baron Arklow, the youngest son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
Princess Helen of Waldeck-Pyrmont died in Hinterris in the Tyrol, in Austria.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/princess_helena_of_waldeck   (197 words)

  
 Princess_Alice_of_Albany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (25 February 1883 - 3 January 1981), was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
Princess Alice was born on February 25, 1883 at Windsor Castle.
Upon marriage Princess Alice was styled HRH Princess Alexander of Teck.
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 boys clothing: British royalty Victoria--the children   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The Princess Royal was born in 1840 and Victoria was concerned that her subjects would be dissapointed that her first child was a girl.
Princess Alice was born in 1843 and knicknammed Fatima.
Helena was a bright girl, but saw marriage to the rather oafish Christain as her old chance for marriage.
histclo.hispeed.com /royal/eng/royal-ukvIc.htm   (1721 words)

  
 Victoria of the United Kingdom
Victoria was born on May 24, 1819 to Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent (fourth son of King George III) and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg, sister of King Leopold I of the Belgians and widow of Emich, 2nd Prince of Leiningen.
What is clear is that she passed it on to at least two of her daughters (Princesses Alice and Beatrice) with tragic consequences.
married Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1861-1922)
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 Victoria of the United Kingdom - Biocrawler definition:Victoria of the United Kingdom - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
At the age of fifty the Duke of Kent and Strathearn married Princess Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield and widow of Karl, Prince of Leiningen.
When Princess Victoria of Kent was eleven years old, her uncle, King George IV, died childless, leaving the throne to his brother, the Duke of Clarence and St Andrews, who became King William IV.
Though she did not suffer from the disease, she passed it on to Princess Alice and Princess Beatrice as carriers, and Prince Leopold was affected with the disease.
biocrawler.com /biowiki/Victoria_of_the_United_Kingdom   (5201 words)

  
 Find A Grave - Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore
The daughter of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany and Princess Helena of Waldeck, she was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
Born Helena Victoria, she was the eldest daughter of Princess Helena of Great Britain and Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Daughter of Princess Helen and granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, Princess Marie married Prince Aribert of Anhalt in 1891.
www.findagrave.com /php/famous.php?page=cem&FScemeteryid=2141507   (1014 words)

  
 physics - Carl Eduard, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
On 11 October 1905, at Glücksburg Castle, Holstein, the Duke married Princess Victoria Adelaide (31 December 1885 – 5 October 1970), the daughter of the Duke Friedrich Ferdinard of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
Princess Sybilla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (18 January 1907 – 28 November 1972); married 20 October 1932 Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden (22 April 1906 – 26 January 1947), and had issue.
Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (22 June 1912 – 5 September 1983); married 14 December 1931 Friedrich-Wolfgang, Count of Castell Rüdenhausen (26 June 1906 – 11 June 1940); and had issue.
www.physicsdaily.com /physics/Carl_Eduard_of_Saxe-Coburg-Gotha   (1116 words)

  
 21ST GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
He was married to Princess Helena of WALDECK-PYRMONT (daughter of Prince of WALDECK-PYRMONT) about 1879 in England?.
Princess Helena of WALDECK-PYRMONT was born in 1861.
Alice Countess of ATHLONE was born in England - dtr of Leopold duke of Albany.
home.att.net /~hamiltonclan/hamilton/gilbert/d8370.htm   (81 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Princess Helena of Waldeck
Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine
Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Albany (née Her Serene Highness Princess Helene Friederike Auguste of Waldeck and Pyrmont) (17 February 1861 - 1 September 1922) was the daughter of George Victor of Waldeck-Pyrmont (1831-1893) and his wife Helene Wilhelmine of Nassau-Weilburg (1831-1888)
Her Royal Highness Princess Alice of Albany (25 February 1883 - 3 January 1981), was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Princess-Helena-of-Waldeck   (465 words)

  
 Royalty.nu - British Royal History - Queen Victoria and Her Family
Princess Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise was born in 1840.
Princess Louise Caroline Alberta was born in 1848.
Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria was born in 1857.
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 Carl Eduard, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Forced to abdicate his ducal throne in 1918, he was further estranged from the British Royal Family and the government of the United Kingdom because of his membership in the Nazi Party in the 1930s.
Carl Eduard was born at Claremont House, Surrey, the posthumous son and younger child of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, the fourth son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and his wife, Princess Helena of Waldeck.
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (18 January 1907 – 28 November 1972); married 20 October 1932 Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden (22 April 1906 – 26 January 1947), mother of the present King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden.
en.efactory.pl /Duke_Carl_Eduard_of_Saxe-Coburg-Gotha   (1148 words)

  
 The Age 150th   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The venerable Duchess had lived more than the allotted span of life, being in her 76th year, had played her part well, and was practically done with the mundane sphere, but she was “mother” in no ordinary sense, and her decease could not fail to give a very painful tug to the heart strings.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.” The Princess Royal (Victoria) was married to the Crown Prince of Prussia on 25th January, 1858, and became the mother of the present Emperor of Germany.
The Princess Beatrice, it will be remembered, lost her husband, Prince Hans, in the 1895 Ashantee expedition, in which he was a volunteer, he having died of fever on board H.M.S. Blande on 20th January, off the African coast, on the return journey.
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 Articles - Victoria of the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
When she died in 1817, the remaining unmarried sons of King George III scrambled to marry (the Prince Regent and the Duke of York were already married, but estranged from their wives) and father children to provide an heir for the king.
At the age of fifty the Duke of Kent and Strathearn married Princess Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and widow of Karl, Prince of Leiningen.
At birth Victoria was a granddaughter of a monarch (George III) through the male line and as such held the style and title of a Royal Highness and Princess of the United Kingdom and was styled Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria of Kent (as the daughter of the Duke of Kent and Strathearn).
www.foreverc.com /articles/Victoria_of_the_United_Kingdom   (5355 words)

  
 Worldroots.com
Princess Beatrice of Coburg [granddaughter of Victoria, youngest child of Duke Alfred],Princess Feodora von Sachsen-Meiningen [great-granddaughter of Victoria, daughter of Bernhard III, Herzog von Sachsen-Meiningen and of Viktoria, the Kaiser’s – Wilhelm II – sister]
She is Princess Victoria Alberta, sister of Alix von Hessen, and wife of Prince Ludwig von Battenberg] Princess Heinrich of Prussia [it’s written “Princess Henry of Russia”.
His other brothers were, at the time of the photo, all deceased], Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg [there’s no “Princess Alexander” (another printing error of the book of the Princess) she is actually Princess Alexandra, daughter of Prince Alfred.
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 Articles - Claremont (country house)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
In 1816 Claremont was bought by the nation as a wedding present for George IV's daughter Princess Charlotte and her husband Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.
She, in turn, lent the house to the exiled French king and queen Louis-Philippe and Marie-Amelie after the revolution of 1848.
Queen Victoria bought Claremont for her fourth and youngest son Leopold, Duke of Albany, when he married Princess Helena of Waldeck in 1882.
www.zoneta.com /articles/Claremont_(stately_house)   (801 words)

  
 Royal Genealogies Part 1
Princess of Wales (1863-1901) Queen Alexandra (1901-1910) Queen Mother (1910-1925); Pictures of her as a young woman show a sad, soulful look in her eyes; she walked with a limp (which was imitated by society).
Princess May was passed on as fiancée to his younger brother George (later, George V).
The outstanding event of the reign of George V was World War I. Following England's declaration of war on Germany, the king renounced all the German titles belonging to him and his family and changed the name of the royal house to Windsor.
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 boys clothing: British royalty Victoria and Albert--biography of children, staff, and comtemprary notables   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
She was appointed as governess to the young princess.
Interestingkly, he had mairred Charlotte, Princess of Wales, the daughter of William IV who was posed to become Queen of England, but died as a result of a still-born son.
Lady Lyttelton was chosen by Prince Albert to be the governess of the growing brood of princes and princesses.
histclo.hispeed.com /royal/eng/v1/ukv1-bio.htm   (2424 words)

  
 Portraits of British Royalty
Despite his 1863 marriage to Princess Alexandra of Denmark, with whom he had six children, he was infamous for his many mistresses and playboy lifestyle.
Helena (Lenchen), b.1846, d.1923 as Princess Helena of Schleswig-Holstein (married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein)
1944 as Princess Beatrice of Battenberg (married Prince Henry of Battenberg)
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 Royal Genealogies - Queen Victoria Hanover & Prince Albert Augustus Charles
NOTES: a.k.a.: Princess Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg; Elizabeth Longford, in "Life of Elizabeth II" shows Beatrice's birthdate as: 1858.
She is often shown in pictures wearing gobs of jewelry.
NOTES: Princess Maude Charlotte Mary Victoria, later: Maude, Queen of Norway.
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 Victoria of the United Kingdom
She was born on May 24, 1819, to Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of King George III, and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield, sister of King Leopold I of the Belgians and widow of HSH Emich, 2nd Prince of Leiningen.
Following the death of Leopold's wife, Princess Charlotte Augusta, in childbirth, the only legitimate child of King George IV, in 1817, there had been a scramble by the king's brothers to abandon their mistresses, marry, and beget an heir to the realm; Edward, marrying at the age of fifty, was the one who supposedly succeeded.
Helena (May 25, 1846 - June 9, 1923), married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1831-1917)
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