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  Victoria of the United Kingdom - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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 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).
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 Prince Henry of Battenberg Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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.
Her brother-in-law, Grand Duke Ludwig III of Hesse and by Rhine, granted her the title Princess of Battenberg with the style of Serene Highness on 21 December 1858.
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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 Victoria of the United Kingdom - Enpsychlopedia
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 German Empress, and the death of two of her grandsons.
As of 2005, 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).
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).
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 Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, later Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven (Victoria Alberta Elisabeth Mathilde Marie) (5 April 1863-24 September 1950), was the eldest daughter of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1837-1892) and his wife Princess Alice of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1843-1878).
Princess Louise of Battenberg, married King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (1889-1965)
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 Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine (German: Alix Victoria Helena Luise Beatrice Prinzessin von Hessen und bei Rhein) or Saint Alexandra, 6 June 1872 – 17 July 1918, under the title Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna (Russian: Императрица Александра Фёдоровна), was Empress consort of Russia.
Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine was born in Darmstadt in Hesse (then part of the German Empire).
Her godparents were The Prince of Wales, The Princess of Wales, The Tsarevich of Russia, The Tsarevna of Russia, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, The Duchess of Cambridge, and The Landgravine of Hesse.
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 Where can I find Alexandra Of Hesse information?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The princess was intrinsic a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and—although named Alix, a German rewording of her mother's name, Alice—she assumed the signature Alexandra Fyodorovna upon blessing into the Russian Orthodox Church.
Her was Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, the perk eldest daughter of Queen Victoria & of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Her godparents were The Prince of Wales, The Princess of Wales, The Tsarevich of Russia, The Tsarevna of Russia, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, The Duchess of Cambridge, & The Landgravine of Hesse.
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 Encyclopedia: English: Prince_Andrew_of_Greece (Wikipedia)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Prince Andrew married Her Serene Highness Princess Alice of Battenberg in a civil wedding on October 6, 1903 at Darmstadt and in a religious wedding the next day in the Russian Chapel, Darmstadt.
Princess Alice was a daughter of His Serene Highness Prince Louis of Battenberg and Her Grand Ducal Highness Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom.
As such, Princess Alice was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and in the line of succession to the British throne.
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 sociology - Victoria of the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was a Queen of the United Kingdom, reigning from 20 June 1837 until her death.
At the age of fifty the Duke of Kent and Strathearn married Princess Victoire 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 monarchy became more symbolic than political, with a strong emphasis on morality and victorian family values, in contrast to the sexual, financial and personal scandals that had been associated with previous members of the House of Hanover and which had discredited the monarchy.
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 Bourbon Weddings: Matrimonial Alliances of the Spanish Bourbons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies promised to implement an amnesty for those Spaniards exiled by her future husband's government.
The founder of this morganatic branch of the House of Hesse was Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, who had married a Polish countess against his family's wishes.
Princess Sophia of Greece, born in 1938, was the eldest daughter of King Paul of Greece and Queen Frederica, née Princess of Hanover.
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 Hesse and by Rhine (Darmstadt) Royal Family
See 32.18 - Ludwig was the son of Landgrave Ludwig X of Hesse-Darmstadt (1753-1830) who assumed the title of Grand Duke in 1806 and by the Congress of Vienna was further recognised as the Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine (as Ludwig I).
The Ducal House of Hesse and by Rhine came to an end on the death of Prince Ludwig.
Prince Alexander was engaged to Princess Victoria of Prussia.
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 Ahnentafel
HGDH Princess Victoria Alberta of Hesse and the Rhine (April 5, 1863 - September 24, 1950).
HGDH Prince Alexander of Hesse and the Rhine (July 15, 1823 - December 15, 1888)
HRH Princess Elisabeth of Prussia (June 18, 1815 - March 21, 1885).
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 Alexander Palace Time Machine - Princess Alice of Hesse and by Rhine
* Princess Alice of Hesse and by Rhine
Luckily neither Victoria nor her husband Prince Albert was upset over the fact that this third child was a second girl.
Her eldest daughter Victoria came down with diphtheria, and the girl's fever was extremely high.
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 Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
On 30 April 1884 in the presence of Queen Victoria, Prince Louis of Battenberg married Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (5 April 1863-24 September 1950) at Darmstadt.
His only sister, Princess Marie, wed the head of a mediatized family, Count Gustaf zu Erbach-Schoenberg, who was elevated, along with the couple's male-line descendants, to Prince and Serene Highness by her cousin, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, in 1903.
Of the family's two residences in Hesse, the Alexander Palace in Darmstadt returned to the grand duchy as part of the appanaged patrimony of Louis's father, Prince Alexander, from which his children by Julie Hauke were debarred.
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 Prince Andreas Oldenburg Of Greece / Princess Alice Mountbatten Of Battenberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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 Victoria who married into the royal house of Greece.
Princess Andrew returned to Great Britain in November 1947 to attend the wedding of her only son, then Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, R.N. to HRH The Princess Elizabeth, the elder daughter and heir presumptive of King George VI.
Princess Alice of Battenberg never used the Mountbatten surname or assumed the courtesy title as a daughter of a British marquess since she had married into the Royal House of Greece in 1903.
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 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Biography,info
His mother was Princess Alice of Battenberg, the elder daughter of the 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (formerly Prince Louis of Battenberg) and his wife, the former Princess Victoria of Hesse and the 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.
(His sister Princess Sophie's first husband, Prince Christophe of Hesse had been a member of the SS and an aide to Heinrich Himmler.) Also, the bride's aunt Mary, Princess Royal refused to attend because her brother, the Duke of Windsor (who abdicated in 1936), was not invited.
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 boys clothing: German royalty--Hesse-Darmstadt
The eldest, Louis (1854-), mairred Princess Victoria of Heese, the eledest daughter of Grand Duke Louis IV and Princess Alice.
He had wanted to marry a Princess Victoria of Prussia, but her brother Prince Wilhelm objected, in part because of his non-royal orgins and in part because of the unstable Bulgarian throne.
Their oldest child was Princess Victoria, primarily because her grandson was Lord Mountbatten and great grandson was Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II.
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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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 Royal Naval and Commonwealth Navies Personnel List - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
He was the second son of Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse and the Rhine.
His maternal grandparents were Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
His siblings were Princess Alice, (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), Queen Louise of Sweden, and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven.
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 Yvonne's Royalty Home Page: Books about Queen Victoria and Her Family
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (Marchioness of Milford Haven)
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, by Theo Aronson (1981)
The People’s Princess: A Portrait of H.R.H. Princess Mary, Duchess of Teck, by S.W. Jackman (1984)
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 Royal Genealogies Part 1
NOTES: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a.k.a.: The Prince Consort of Queen Victoria; Christened: (Francis) Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel; He was an active and effective patron of the arts and sciences, organizing such enterprises as the epochal Great Exhibition of 1851 to stimulate the growth of British commerce, industry and national pride.
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).
NOTES: Title: Louis IV of Hesse; Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and The Rhine; a.k.a.: Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and The Rhine.
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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 Victoria who married into the royal house of Greece.
She was the eldest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg (24 May 1854 - 11 September 1921) and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (5 April 1863-24 September 1950).
On 31 October 1994, Princess Andrew's two surviving children, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Georg of Hanover, went to Yad Vashem (the Holocaust Memorial) in Jerusalem to witness a ceremony honoring her as "Righteous among the Nations" for having hidden the Cohen family in her flat in Athens during the Second World War.
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Princess Maria Antonia of Bourbon-Sicilies, was a first cousin of Ferdinand's.
Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies promised to implement an amnesty for
Princess Sophia of Greece, born in 1938, was the eldest daughter of King Paul of Greece and
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 Alexander Palace Time Machine - 1914 Trip to Russia - Victoria Remembers
In 1913 the tricentenary of the reign of the Romanoff dynasty had been celebrated in Russia and Nicky and Alix visited the home towns of the family.
As to Dickie, whose leave from college had begun several days before, he had been quite solitary at the Mall House till we arrived, and tried to find occupation in the care of some white mice he had bought for that purpose.
Reminiscences, by Victoria, Princess of Hesse and the Rhine, Princess Louis of Battenberg, Marchioness of Milford-Haven
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 Children of Louis Mountbatten, Marquess of Milford Haven (1854-1921)
Alice, Princess Andreas of Greece and Denmark (1885-),
Alexander, Prince of Hesse and the Rhine (1823-1888)
Karl, Prince of Hesse and the Rhine (1809-1877)
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 Ahnenreihe free teacher worksheets Ahnenreihe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
HGDH Princess Louis of Battenberg, later Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven née HGDH Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (April 5, 1863-September 24, 1950)
HRH Grand Duchess Alice of Hesse and by Rhine née HRH The Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (April 25, 1843-December 14, 1878)
HRH Princess Karl of Hesse and by Rhine née HRH Princess Elizabeth of Prussia (June 18, 1815-March 21, 1885)
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