#irene of hesse and by rhine

[thehessiansisters]

Portrait of Prince and Princess Henry of Prussia sitting in a bench at a park, 1919.

[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthdays for today, July 11th:

Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, 1274

Frederick I, King of Prussia, 1657

Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, 1662

Irene of Hesse and by Rhine, Princess of Prussia, 1866

Kyril, Prince of Preslav, 1964

[loiladadiani]

Photograph of Alix of Hesse and By Rhine (Empress Alexandra Feodorovna,) her husband Emperor Nicholas II, and her sisters with their spouses (her brother Ernest Louis appears alone.)

From left to right, Grand Duke Ernest Louis, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, Emperor Nicholas II, Irene, Princess Heinrich of Prussia, Prince Heinrich of Prussia, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven and Louis Mountbatten, first Marquess of Milford Haven

[venicepearl]

Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (Irene Luise Marie Anne; 11 July 1866 – 11 November 1953), later Princess Henry of Prussia, was the third child and third daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine. Her maternal grandparents were Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Her paternal grandparents were Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Elisabeth of Prussia. She was the wife of Prince Henry of Prussia, a younger brother of Wilhelm II, German Emperor and her first cousin. The SS Prinzessin Irene, a liner of the North German Lloyd was named after her.

Her siblings included Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, wife of Prince Louis of Battenberg, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, wife of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Like her younger sister, the empress, Irene was a carrier of the hemophilia gene, and Irene would lose her sisters Alix and Elisabeth in Russia to the Bolsheviks.

[la-belle-histoire]

Queen Victoria with her granddaughters, Princesses Irene, Victoria, Elisabeth, and Alix of Hesse and by Rhine. 1880s.

[royal-confessions]

“Princess Irene and Prince Heinrich of Prussia had the cutest royal couple photos of their time.” - Submitted by Anonymous

[ykzzr]

Hessian Royal family 1936-1937

Ludwig of Hesse, Cecilie of Hesse, Crown Princess Louise of Sweden, Georg donatus of Hesse, Sophie of Hesse, Eleonore of Hesse, Nadejda Mountbatten, Victoria Mountbatten, Princess Irene of Prussia hold Alexandar, Ernst Ludwig with his oldest grandson Ludwig.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

BORN ON THIS DAY:

Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (Irene Luise Marie Anne; 11 July 1866 – 11 November 1953), later Princess Henry of Prussia, was the third child and third daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine.

Her maternal grandparents were Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Her paternal grandparents were Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Elisabeth of Prussia.

She was the wife of Prince Henry of Prussia, a younger brother of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, and her first cousin.

[the-last-tsar]

"There once were four sisters — Victoria, Ella, Irene and Alix — who lived in an obscure grand duchy in south-western Germany, a place of winding cobbled streets and dark forests made legendary in the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. In their day, these four princesses of the house of Hesse and by Rhine were considered by many to be "the flowers of Queen Victoria's flock of granddaughters", celebrated for their beauty, intelligence and charm. As they grew up they became the object of intense scrutiny on that most fraught of international stages — the royal marriage market of Europe. Despite their lack of large dowries or vast territories, each sister in turn married well. But it was to the youngest and most beautiful of the four that fate dealt the biggest hand."

The Romanov Sisters | Helen Rappaport

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

VERY RARE photo of Princess Irene of Prussia(née of Hesse and by Rhine)

[thehessiansisters]

Portrait of Princess Henry of Prussia with her sons, Princes Sigismund and Waldemar of Prussia, 1906.

[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

[loiladadiani]

Princess Heinrich (nee Irene of Hesse and By Rhine) 1866 - 1956 and her husband Prince Heinrich of Prussia (1862 - 1929)

Irene was an older sister of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Like her sister, she was a hemophilia carrier and had two children with hemophilia; one died in childhood. Her husband Heinrich was Keiser Wilhelm II's brother and Irene's first cousin (Heinrich's mother was Vicky, Queen Victoria's first daughter; Irene's mother was Alice, her second daughter). Although Queen Victoria was angry when the couple married because she had not been informed until shortly before the wedding, they had a very successful marriage. Irene supported her sister Alix when Alexei nearly died of complications of hemophilia at the Imperial Family's hunting lodge in Poland.

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

EXTREMELY RARE photo of Princesses Victoria, Elisabeth, and Irene of Hesse and By Rhine, 1868-69 🤍✨⭐️

Source: my lucky day at the Hessian State Archives

[krasivaa]

Blood is thicker than water

~☆~royal lookalikes~☆~

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and her aunt Irene of Prussia AKA of Hesse and by Rhine. -@theromanovgirls 😻😝

@krasivaa's royal series

[royal-confessions]

“I still hope they make an accurate drama series on Princess Alice of Battenberg. Given how dramatic and fascinating her life was, there's no real need to fabricate or embellish. Same with the lives of the Hessian sisters. There's a lot of potential.” - Submitted by Anonymous