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  History of the Monarchy > The Hanoverians > Victoria
Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (born 1844) married Marie of Russia.
Victoria was deeply attached to her husband and she sank into depression after he died, aged 42, in 1861.
Victoria and her family travelled and were seen on an unprecedented scale, thanks to transport improvements and other technical changes such as the spread of newspapers and the invention of photography.
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 Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha - from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Victoria scandalised the royal families of Europe with her divorce and remarriage in the early 20th century.
Victoria was born on November 25, 1876 in the San Antonio Palace in Malta.
Victoria lived in Malta in her early years where as her father was stationed as an officer in the Royal Navy.
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 Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh - Wikipedia
Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh (Beatrice Leopoldine Victoria), (20 April 1884 - 13 July 1966), was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
Princess Beatrice was born on April 20, 1884 at Eastwell Park, Kent.
Her mother was The Duchess of Edinburgh (née Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia), the only daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Marie of Hesse and by Rhine.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Princess_Beatrice_of_Saxe-Coburg-Gotha   (673 words)

  
 Victoria of the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Victoria's father, the Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, was the fourth son of King George III of the United Kingdom.
Victoria's personal life was marked by many personal tragedies, including the death of her son, the Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the fatal illness of her daughter, the Empress of Germany, and the death of two of her grandsons.
As of 2004, the European monarchs and former monarchs descended from Victoria are: the Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the Harald V of Norway, the Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, the Margrethe II of Denmark, the Juan Carlos I of Spain, the Constantine II of Greece (deposed) and the Michael of Romania (deposed).
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 Victoria of the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent and Strathearn, was the fourth son of King George III.
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.
Victoria's first official visit to Ireland, in 1849, was specifically arranged by Lord Clarendon, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the head of the British administration, to try both to draw attention off the famine and also to alert British politicians through the Queen's presence to the seriousness of the crisis in Ireland.
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 Princess Victoria, Princess Royal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Princess Victoria was born on November 21, 1840 at Buckingham Palace, London.
Their sympathies created a rift among Queen Victoria's extended family, since Victoria's younger brother, the Prince of Wales, was married to Princess Alexandra of Denmark, the elder daughter of Christian IX of Denmark, who was also reigning duke of the disputed territories of Schleswig and Holstein.
Victoria died of cancer of the spine at Friedrichshof in August 1901, eight months after the death of her mother Queen Victoria.
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 Edward VII of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Once widowed, Queen Victoria effectively withdrew from public life, but shortly after the Prince Consort's death, she arranged for her son to marry Princess Alexandra of Denmark, the beautiful elder daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark.
Their marriage was met with disapproval in certain circles because most of Victoria's relations were German, and Denmark was at loggerheads with Germany over the territories of Schleswig and Holstein.
Victoria herself was of two minds as to whether it was a suitable match.
www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Edward_VII_of_the_United_Kingdom   (1735 words)

  
 Princess Helena of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Her Royal Highness The Princess Helena, (Helena Augusta Victoria), (25 May 1846 - 9 June 1923), was a member of the British Royal Family, the fifth-born child and the third daughter of Queen Victoria.
Princess Marie Louise was married in 1891 to His Highness Prince Aribert of Anhalt (18 June 1844-24 December1933), the fourth son of the Duke of Anhalt.
Princess Marie Louise returned to Britain, where with her unmarried sister, Princess Helena Victoria, she carried out public and official duties as member of the British Royal Family for forty years.
www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Princess_Helena_of_the_United_Kingdom   (605 words)

  
 Sheraton Princess Kaiulani | About Sheraton Princess Kaiulani   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Princess Ruth, one of her godmothers, deeded to her godchild part of her royal estate, a coconut grove where Archibald Cleghorn constructed a rambling two-story frame house that later became a social center for island society.
In 1889, at the age of 13, the princess was sent to Northamptonshire, England, to further her education.
A portrait of Princess Kaiulani, painted by well-known Hawaii artist Lloyd Sexton, hangs in the Lobby of the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani, a constant reminder of the grace and hospitality she extended to all who came into contact with her.
www.princess-kaiulani.com /pr_about.htm   (569 words)

  
 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
His mother was Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark (formerly Princess Alice of Battenberg), the elder daughter of the 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (formerly Prince Louis of Battenberg) and the Marchioness of Milford Haven (formerly Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine).
Lady Milford Haven, through her mother, the Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine (formerly Princess Alice of the United Kingdom), was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, and Princess Andrew was the sister of Queen Louise of Sweden.
This was in tune with the tradition established by Queen Victoria, who did not wish to take a military role that people of her gender could not normally assume (though she did not appoint her prince consort to these positions).
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 sociology - Victoria of the United Kingdom
Victoria marked 20 June 1887 — the fiftieth anniversary of her accession — with a banquet, to which fifty European kings and princes were invited.
Victoria's personal life was marked by many personal tragedies, including the death of her son, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the fatal illness of her daughter, the Empress of Germany, and the death of two of her grandsons.
As of 2004, the European monarchs and former monarchs descended from Victoria are: the Queen of the United Kingdom, the King of Norway, the King of Sweden, the Queen of Denmark, the King of Spain, the King of the Hellenes (deposed) and the King of Romania (deposed).
www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Victoria_of_the_United_Kingdom   (4993 words)

  
 Victoria, Princess Royal information - Search.com
As a daughter of the sovereign, Victoria was automatically a British princess with the style Her Royal Highness, styled HRH The Princess Victoria (and in addition being heiress presumptive to the throne of the United Kingdom before the birth of her younger brother Prince Albert, later Edward VII on 9 November 1841).
In 1851, Victoria met her future husband, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia (18 October 1831-15 June 1888), when he and his parents were invited to London by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to attend the opening of the Great Exhibition.
Their sympathies created a rift among Queen Victoria's extended family, since Victoria's younger brother, the Prince of Wales, was married to Princess Alexandra of Denmark, the elder daughter of Christian IX of Denmark, who was also reigning duke of the disputed territories of Schleswig and Holstein.
www.search.com /reference/Victoria,_Princess_Royal_and_Empress_Frederick   (1141 words)

  
 Articles - Anne, Princess Royal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Princess Anne was born on August 15, 1950 at Clarence House, London.
Her father is His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and the former Princess Alice of Battenburg.
Princess Anne was the target of a failed kidnap attempt on March 20, 1974.
www.sidepoint.com /articles/Anne,_Princess_Royal   (1204 words)

  
 NPG x95985; Grand Duchess Kirril of Russia (née Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh); Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg ...
NPG x95985; Grand Duchess Kirril of Russia (née Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh); Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; Princess Ernest of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (née Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh); Queen Marie of Roumania (née Princess Marie of Edinburgh)
Princess Ernest of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (née Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh) (1878-1942), Daughter of Prince Alfred of Edinburgh; wife of Ferdinand I, King of Roumania.
Grand Duchess Kirril of Russia (née Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh) (1876-1936), Daughter of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh; wife of Grand-Duke Kirill of Russia.
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 Royal Consents to Marriages
Duke of Cumberland and Dowager Princess of Solms.
Duke of Connaught and Princess Louise of Prussia.
Duke of Cumberland and Princess Thyra of Denmark.
www.heraldica.org /topics/britain/royalconsents.htm   (850 words)

  
 Articles - Princess Alice of the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Her mother was the reigning British monarch, Queen Victoria, the only child of King George III's fourth son, Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent.
Alice was educated with her elder sister, Princess Victoria, Princess Royal.
Princess Alice's concern about the poor nursing conditions for wounded soldiers during the 1866 Austro-Prussian War, led her found the Alice-Frauenverin, or Women's Union, to train nurses and auxiliary workers.
www.poncier.com /articles/Princess_Alice_of_the_United_Kingdom   (478 words)

  
 Edinburgh travel guide - Wikitravel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Edinburgh (Gaelic: Dùn Èideann; [1]) is the capital of Scotland, part of the United Kingdom, located in the Central Belt region of the country.
Edinburgh is not a particularly car friendly city with the myriad of one-way streets and the Old Town's medeival layout, and - with privitisation - the dedication of parking wardens to ticketing anything that is not moving legendary.
Edinburgh in the winter Festive Season is also huge: whole sections of central Edinburgh are roped off and accessible only by ticket for the Scottish New Years' Celebrations known as Hogmanay [35], of which the Edinburgh Hogmanay is easily the largest in Scotland.
wikitravel.org /en/Edinburgh   (6073 words)

  
 Wedding of King George V, by Lafayette
The Miarrage of H.R.H. The Duke of York K.G. and H.S.H. The Princess Victoria Mary of Teck:
HRH Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh, later Grand Duchess Kirill of Russia (1876-1936).
HH Princess Victoria Eugénie of Battenberg, later HM Queen 'Ena' of Spain (1887-1969).
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 princess alice of battenberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Princess Alice of Battenberg, later Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark (25 February 1885 - 5 December 1969) was a great-granddaughter of the British Queen …
Princess Victoria of Hesse was born in 1863.
Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885-1969); Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885-1969); Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885-1969); Princess
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 Articles - Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Born Princess Margaret Rose of York on 21 August 1930 at Glamis Castle in Scotland, her mother's ancestral home, Margaret was the first British princess born in Scotland since the House of Stuart.
Princess Margaret was educated alongside her sister, Princess Elizabeth, by their governess, Marion Crawford.
Later in the same year, the Princess severely scalded her feet in a bathroom accident, which affected her mobility to the extent she required support when walking and was sometimes restricted to a wheelchair.
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 Princess Margaret of Connaught - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Princess Margaret of Connaught, Margaret Victoria Charlotte Augusta Norah Wettin (January 15, 1882 – May 1, 1920), Crown Princess of Sweden, was the daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and his wife, the Princess Luise Marguerite of Prussia, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
She became the first wife of Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, later Gustav VI Adolf, on June 15, 1905.
When Gustaf Adolf's father Gustav V acceeded to the throne as King in 1907, the couple became Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Sweden.
www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Princess_Margaret_of_Connaught   (201 words)

  
 Princess Kaiulani
She was born in October of 1875, the daughter of Princess Miriam Kapili Likelike (pronounced "Lee-keh-lee-keh") and Scotsman Archibald Scott Cleghorn, prosperous businessman, horticulturist, and eventual Governor of O’ahu during Queen Lili’uokalani’s reign.
Princess Likelike, gifted musician and renowned society hostess, was sister to Hawai'i’s then reigning monarch, the brilliant "renaissance man" and cultural visionary David La’amea Kalakaua; of the "Na Lani ‘Eha" - the four royal siblings comprising the Kalakaua dynasty - Likelike was the only member fated to produce a royal child.
While most of her biographers close with that sad day on which the Princess was laid to rest in the quiet of the Royal crypt at Mauna-‘ala, the tale of a subsequent century of Ka’iulani’s influence needs to be told.
www.electricscotland.com /history/women/wh36.htm   (2018 words)

  
 Royal Kissing Cousins quiz -- free game
Princess Victoria of Prussia and Princess Irene of Hesse
Princess Christina of Hesse and Princess Kira of Leiningen
Princess Maragrita of Greece and Princess Elisabetha of Romania
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=213974   (587 words)

  
 Relationships Between Queen Victoria's Descendants and Other European Royal Houses
Queen Victoria's great great granddaughter Princess Theodora of Greece (daughter of Princess Alice of Battenberg (who was the daughter of Princess Victoria of Hess and by Rhine (who in turn was the daughter of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Alice))) married
Princess Ingrid of Sweden (daughter of Princess Margaret of Connaught who was the daughter of Queen Victoria's son Prince Arthur of Connaught) married
Princess Charlotte of Prussia (daughter of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria) married
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 Royal Genealogies Part 1
The many years of her reign, often referred to as the Victorian age, witnessed the rise of middle class and were marked by a deeply conservative morality and intense nationalism.
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).
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 Edinburgh, Prince Philip Mountbatten, duke of on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He was the son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice, daughter of Prince Louis of Battenberg, and a grandson of George I of Greece, great-grandson of Christian IX of Denmark, and great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria.
The princess bride; once, long ago, a shy girl called Lillibet lost her heart to a bold Prince named Philip.
Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh Marry
www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/EdinburgP1P1.asp   (739 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Mariya Aleksandrovna Romanov, Grand Duchess of Russia and others
She married Alfred Ernest Albert Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Edinburgh and Strathearn, son of Albert Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha and Victoria Alexandrina Hanover, Queen of the United Kingdom, on 23 January 1874 in Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia.
As a result of her marriage, Marie Alexandra Victoria Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Princess of Edinburgh was styled as Queen Consort Marie of Romania on 10 October 1914.
     Victoria Melita Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Princess of the United Kingdom was born on 25 November 1876 in Palace of St. Antonio, Valetta, Malta.
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 Coburg
Coburg, Victoria Coburg is a City of Moreland.
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Beatrice Leopoldine Victoria of Edinburgh and 1966 Beatrice was born at her paren...
Victoria of Saxe-Coburg Victoria of Saxe-Coburg (17 August 1786-16 March 1861), was the mother of Queen Victoria.
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