#grand duke Louis iv of hesse

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

Two photos of Grand Duke Ludwig IV of Hesse and By Rhine (father of Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna and 6 others) with his younger brother Prince Heinrich of Hesse, mid-late 1840s

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

EXTREMELY CLEAR photo of The Hessian Royal Family in 1872 ✨

From left to right: Irene, Ernst Louis, Louis IV, Elisabeth, Victoria, Alice, and Frittie. 🤍

Source: my lucky day at the Hessian State Archives

[loiladadiani]

Grand Duke Serge Alexandrovich and the Hessians

The main reason I like this picture is that Ella is smiling in a very different, spontaneous way. Her eyes are involved in the smile. She has not turned into the “ethereal” beauty yet. I don't have a date for the picture. It might be around her engagement to Serge.

In the picture, from left to right: A very young Ernst Ludwig with a pup under each arm, Ella with a little girl in her arms whom I don't know; sitting on the steps in front of Ella, Princess Victoria, standing by Ella, Princess Alix, sitting right in front of Alix, the Grand Duke Ludwig IV, and sitting next to him, Grand Duke Serge.

There are two young women in the photo, one sitting next to Victoria and the other standing behind Sergei, whom I do not know.

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

Two group photographs of Prince Louis and Princess Alice of Hesse with their two daughters, Victoria and Elisabeth, alongside Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, and Prince Alfred, 1865.

[drosera-nepenthes]

Royal Marriages for Love

Instead of marrying the Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand and becoming later the Empress of Austria, the Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria had wedded a poor lieutenant in the German army who has an income of $400 a year. If Baron Seefried is to be congratulated, his wife is probably equally worthy of it. The occasion recalls many royal persons who have married below their rank and yet seem to have had as happy if not happier lives than most. To mention but a few, the lamented Prince Alexander of Bulgaria became simple Count Hartenau in order to meet half-way the woman he loved, and who was made a countess by the kind-hearted Austrian Emperor. The father of Prince Alexander had also wedded beneath his rank.

The morganatic marriage of another Hessian Prince, the late Grand Duke Louis IV, with Madame de Kolenine is as well known as is the wrath of his mother-in-law, Queen Victoria, who could not allow her daughter's memory to be slighted, and who had this second marriage immediately annulled. The wife of the present head of the house of Meiningen is Ellen Franz, once an actress, while Prince Nicholas of Nassau married Natalie von Pushkine, daughter of the Russian poet. Other well-known cases are those of Princess Frederica of Hanover, who married Baron von Pawel-Rammingen, while a year ago, Prince Ludwig of Bavaria gave his hand to Antonie Barth. Best known of all are the happily wedded lives of Princess Pauline of Wurrtemburg and that hard-working physician of Breslau, Dr. Willim, and of Princess Henrietta of Schleswig-Holstein (aunt of the German Empress) and Professor von Esmarch, the famous surgical scientist of the University of Kiel.

The Outlook, 1894

[teatimeatwinterpalace]

Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, Princess Alix of Hesse, Grand Duke Louis IV, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, Prince Ernest Louis, 1888.

[grossherzoginalice]

The family of the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse in 1872. From left to right- Irene, Ernst, Louis, Elisabeth, Alice, Victoria and Friedrich.

[royal-confessions]

“Of Queen Victoria's sons-in-law, Fritz and Louis were the most handsome. Though her daughter-in-law Maria Alexandrovna might not be considered beautiful in the classic sense by some I think she was quite pretty, too.” - Submitted by Anonymous

[heavyarethecrowns]

[elizabethanhistory]

On this day, 160 years ago, Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine were married.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

BORN ON THIS DAY:

Alexandra Feodorovna (6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1872 – 17 July 1918), Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine at birth, was the last Empress of Russia as the consort of Emperor Nicholas II from their marriage on 26 November [O.S. 14 November] 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March [O.S. 2 March] 1917.

She was the sixth child and fourth daughter among the seven children of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and his first wife, Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, the second daughter of Queen Victoria and her husband Albert, Prince Consort.

[empress-alexandra]

Princess Alix of Hesse - later Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia - in mourning of her father Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse, 1892.

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

Rare photo of the Hessian Royal Family (minus Elisabeth) late 1880s

Standing: Princess Alix of Hesse, Prince Ernst Louis of Hesse (later Grand Duke)

Sitting: Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse, Princess Irene of Prussia (née Hesse), Princess Victoria of Battenberg (née Hesse)

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

EXTREMELY, never before seen, rare photo of the four eldest children of Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and By Rhine and Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland riding in a small carriage 🤍

From left to right: Victoria, Ernst Louis, Irene, and Elisabeth 🤎

Source: Hessian State Archives

[thehessiansisters]

Full length portrait of Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and by Rhine, with Princess Alix and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, 1890s.

[duchesssoflennox]

BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT OF PRINCESS ALICE, GRAND DUCHESS OF HESSE 🩷💗

Princess Alice's Portrait on the right is a copy by Hartmann after a portrait-type, which originated with Von Angeli’s portrait of Princess Alice with her husband and children. Hartmann was paid £50 3s 8d for the copy on 31 August 1880, and it was placed in the Queen’s Sitting-Room at Osborne. The copy is probably the one which the Queen had been given by the Grand Duke on 31 March 1880, during her visit to Darmstadt: ‘an admirable copy (only the head) of Angeli’s picture of darling Alice’. The frame is by Thomas.

On the left side, there's a photo of Princess Alice, which was most likely taken by the painter Hartmann during the drawing of the portrait in 1880...🥰

Princess Alice (1843-78) was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Known for her sweet nature, she often took on the role of peacekeeper in the royal household. The marriage of her older sister, Princess Victoria, in 1858, left Alice as the eldest daughter at home, and the Queen and Prince Albert both turned to her for company. In a popular edition of Alice's letters to the Queen, published in 1885, Princess Helena, her sister, described her as ‘loving Daughter and Sister, the devoted Wife and Mother, and a perfect, true Woman’. In 1862, she married Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse...❤️‍🩹🌅