#louis of battenberg

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Prince Louis of Battenberg with his daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughters.

Prince Louis (later 1st Marquess of Milford-Haven) with Princess Margarita of Greece, Princess Theodora holding the hand of her mother, Princess Alice, with Prince Andrew of Greece in the back. Louis was the husband of Victoria of Hesse, elder sister of Elizaveta and Alexandra Feodorovna. Andrew was the fourth son of Olga Konstantinovna and a first cousin of Nicholas II through the Danish line.

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Princess Alice of Battenberg (Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie; 1885 – 1969) - Princess of Greece and Denmark

One of her Great-Grandmothers was Queen Victoria; her maternal grandmother was Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine; her mother was Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, sister of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia; her father was Prince Louis of Battenberg. Her son was Prince Phillip, consort of Queen Elizabeth II.

She married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark

She had five children: Margarita, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

Theodora, Margravine of Baden

Cecilie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse

Sophie, Princess George of Hanover

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Alice suffered incredibly through her life, but she did not let that stop her from always thinking of others; she was born with a hearing deficit and her brilliant mother Victoria, taught her to lip read not in one but several languages. She had a husband who preferred to gamble in Montecarlo to being with his wife and children or...anything else. She was diagnosed with squizophrenia (there is no evidence that this was a correct diagnosis even though it was issue by Dr. Freud himself) and her pelvic organs irradiated to produce an early menopause (this was supposed to relieve the symptoms according to the medical thinking of the times). She lost her daughter Cecilie in a plane crash.

Yet, like her grandmother Alice, helping others came to her naturally. Israel gave her the award Righteous Among the Nations, bestowed on people who risked their own lives to help Jewish people survive the Holocaust. She worked for the Swiss Red Cross.

The princess founded a nursing order of Greek Orthodox nuns, the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary, modelled after the convent that her aunt, the martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, had founded in Russia in 1909. She dedicated herself to helping others but eventually the order failed because of lack of funds.

And besides all of that, she was beautiful.

She died at Buckingham Palace at the age of 84.

(I have to add something here: Alice's smile in the picture is one of the most open, sweetest, tenderest, and most beautiful smiles I have ever seen. It filled me with awe, and thinking about her life brought tears to my eyes)

[ykzzr]

Little Dickie with his bear 1904. A childhood photo of Prince Louis Mountbatten 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.

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Adventures with Dickie!!! Peterhof 1908

Lord Louis Mountbatten (aka dickie) visiting his cousins (OTMAA) at the Lower Dacha in Peterhof 1908

Photos from Olga Nikolaevna’s 1907-1908 album

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Full length portraits of Prince and Princess Louis of Battenberg, 1884.

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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

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

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Olga Nikolaevna, Irene of Prussia, Eleonore of Hesse, Louise of Battenberg, Waldemar and Louis Mountbatten onboard the Standart July-August, 1909

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The Prince Imperial (Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, son of Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie, known to Bonapartists as Napoleon IV) "was one of only two people Henry Ponsonby encountered who were not afraid of Queen Victoria; the other was John Brown. Later, Ponsonby might have added to his list Beatrice's husband, Henry of Battenberg, whom, save in height, the Prince strongly resembled." (Matthew Dennison, The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter)

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Olga, Tatiana and Maria with Alice, Louise, George and Louis of Battenberg in 1901.

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Postcard featuring the five surviving Hesse-Darmstadt siblings and their spouses.

[loiladadiani]

The focus of the photograph for me is the Empress María Alexandrovna. I am always looking for pictures of her, as she is described as beautiful when young. I can see indications of that in pictures such as this one, but I am also beginning to understand why it might have been that many mistook her shyness for coldness and aloofness.

On the photograph from left to right: Julie, Princess of Battenberg; Elizabeth of Prussia, Princess and Prince Carl of Hesse, Prince Wilhelmina of Hesse, Empress Marie Alexandrovna, Prince Louis of Hesse; Prince Gustav Vasa from Sweden; Princess Alice of Hesse and Prince Alexander of Hesse

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Prince Louis of Battenberg ( Lord Mountbatten ) 1904

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Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine in 1863 with her nurses, Mrs. Castle and Mrs. Moffat.

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (1863-1950) was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, the second daughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

After her marriage to Prince Louis of Battenberg she would become Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven.

Through her daughter Princess Alice, she was the grandmother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

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Candid photograph of Princess Louis of Battenberg with little Princess Friederike of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich and relatives, garden of the Schloss Wolfsgarten, August 1913.