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collarsncrowns · 1 year
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HM Queen Mary followed by her sister-in-law HRH The Countess of Athlone, circa 1948.
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colorizedhistory · 3 months
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Royal Wedding on 10 February 1904 at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
Prince Alexander of Teck (29) and Princess Alice of Albany (20).
The bride was the eldest born child of Queen Victoria's youngest son the late Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany by his German wife Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont.
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The bridegroom was the youngest son of Francis, Duke of Teck by his wife Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge. His elder sister was the wife of Princess Alice's first cousin King George V.
The beautiful bride in her wedding dress
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Their bridesmaids
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The bride and bridegroom with the bridesmaids.
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Princess Alice of Albany with her little brother Prince Charles Edward 1889
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heavyarethecrowns · 2 years
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Regal Weddings Part 4  
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Wedding Portraits of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s children (9 of 10) and their respective spouses, 1858 - 1885.
Victoria, Princess Royal (eldest daughter) married Prince Frederick William of Prussia (later German Emperor Frederick III and Empress Victoria) on January 25, 1858. Portrait by John Phillip.
Princess Alice (second daughter) married Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by the Rhine on July 1, 1862. Portrait by William Powell Frith.
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales married Princess Alexandra of Denmark (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) on March 10, 1863. Portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
Princess Helena (third daughter) married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein on July 5, 1866. Portrait by Christian Karl Magnussen.
Princess Louise (fourth daughter) married John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll on March 21, 1871. Portrait by Sydney Prior Hall.
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha married Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia on January 23, 1874. Portrait by Nicholas Chevalier.
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (third son) married Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia on March 13, 1879. Portrait by Sydney Prior Hall.
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (fourth son) married Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont on April 27, 1882. Portrait by Sir James Dromgole Linton.
Princess Beatrice (youngest daughter) married Prince Henry of Battenberg on July 23, 1885. Portrait by Richard Catton Woodville.
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kaiserrreich · 5 months
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October 22 1858: The Birth of Kaiserin Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein
Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein was the eldest daughter of Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein and Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Lagenburg. Tragedy struck only a week after her birth when her elder brother died from illness. In 1860, her younger sister, Caroline Mathilda, was born. Who was regarded as prettier and a brighter personality than the chubby, serious, submissive Augusta Victoria. Soon Augusta’s mother would give birth to another boy, Gerhard, who died in infancy. Their next male heir and fifth child, Ernst Gunther, was a perfectly healthy baby boy. Augusta would have two other sisters, Louise Sophie in April 1866 and Feodora Adelaide in July 1874.
In her family, she was known affectionately as “Dona.” Augusta’s obedient nature was noted on early in her youth, even by her future mother-in-law Crown Princess Frederick. ‘It is strange how good some children are – and how little trouble they give,’ she wrote to her mother, Queen Victoria, when Augusta Victoria was nine years old.  ‘Ada’s children are patterns of obedience, gentleness – the best of dispositions’. (1)
The thought of a match between Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein and Prince Wilhelm of Prussia was contemplated ever since they were children, as noted by the prince (future Kaiser, ex-Kaiser) later in the future. But was never taken seriously until after the prince was rejected by Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine. Perhaps, Wilhelm was seeking for a rebound in Dona and it was a success. As the couple married on the 27th of February 1881. The marriage has been regarded to be happy but not without struggle. As Wilhelm quickly grew bored at his new wife’s longing for a simple domestic lifestyle, having multiple affairs throughout the years. And in the beginning only saw Dona as a broodmare. It was only after an ear infection gone bad, where Augusta stayed by Wilhelm’s side throughout the duration of it did he start to see her in an adjusted light, but continued to be unfaithful to her.
She bore him seven children:
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Crown Prince of Prussia (1882-1951)
Prince Eitel Friedrich (1883-1942)
Prince Adalbert (1884-1948)
Prince August Wilhelm (1887-1949)
Prince Oskar (1888-1958)
Prince Joachim (1890-1920)
Princess Viktoria Louise of Prussia (1892-1980)
Her days as Empress, she was regarded by the court as a prudish, a stickler for rules who punished anyone for the simplest gesture she deemed to be “immoral.” She was deemed by many as unremarkable and plain with a gaudy and tacky sense of fashion. With Nicholas II remarking to his mother, the Dowager Empress. That she ‘did her best to be pleasant but looked awful in sumptuous gowns completely lacking in taste; in particular the hats she wore in the evening were frightful.’
Though as overbearing and a nuisance as she was in public life and a part of her private life, by some family members, such as Empress Frederick (with whom she had a very heated feud with and who Augusta enjoyed snubbing frequently) who wrote to her daughter, Sophie, she was characterized as: ‘very grand and stiff and cold and condescending at first, but became much nicer afterwards.  Perhaps it was also partly shyness.’ and by her younger sister, Louise Sophie that when she was ‘not bowing to the will of her autocratic husband she was easy and indulgent’. “Her cousin Alice of Albany, who was sometimes mildly critical of her older relations, found her ‘most affable and kind’.”(1)
She was her husband’s biggest supporter throughout everything (for better and for worse) and was crushed when she was stripped of her titles as German Empress and Queen of Prussia after the war. Her health, which was already declining ever since the 1890s (causing her to miscarry twice) went down a rapid decline in the 1920s. And it had worsened when she had heard of the news of the death of her youngest son, Prince Joachim. She passed away on the 11th April 1921, in spite of her personal flaws, she was a beloved Empress by the German people and her popularity outshined her husband’s. Thousands lined up to see her off, where she would be buried at the Temple of Antiquities in the gardens near the New Palais in Postdam. Her husband, the ex Kaiser Wilhelm II was forbidden to cross into Germany to see his wife off for the final time.
Her room in Huis Doorn was soon turned into a shrine dedicated to the late Empress. With Wilhelm ordering for the room to regularly be cleaned with flowers and a cross draped over the bed. “Once a week, for the rest of his twenty years, he would retire there on his own, to go and mourn her memory.“ (1)
Wilhelm adhered to his late wife’s wishes for him to marry someone else when she was gone. When only a year later he would marry Princess Hermine of Reuss. He passed away in June of 1941, at age 82, 20 years after her passing.
Source : The Last German Empress
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krasivaa · 8 months
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Vintage engraving of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany with wife, Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and daughter, Princess Alice (Countess of Athlone). ☺
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timmymyluv · 2 years
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let others wage war: you,happy child, marry-
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Angela Bassett as Queen Victoria of England
Zawe Ashton as Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia, Princess Royal of England
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Jodie Turner Smith as Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine
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John Boyega as Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Stratheam
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theroyalfanzine · 6 months
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Queen Victoria's Currently living Eldest Decendants and Eldest Ever Descendants
This list is as of October 9,  2023
CURRENTLY LIVING
The Lady Pamela Hicks (19 April 1929) (94 years, 5 months,20 days)
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner (12 February 1932) (91 years, 7 months, 27 days)
Count Bertram Friedrich zu Castell-Rüdenhausen (12 July 1932) (91 years, 2 months, 28 days)
Mrs. Anne Mary Sibylla Liddell-Grainger (28 July 1932) (91 years,2 months, 12 days)
Princess Caroline Mathilde Adelheid Sibylla Marianne Erika von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (5 April 1933) (90 years, 6 months, 5 days)
Princess Dorothea Charlotte Karin of Hesse (24 July 1934) (89 years, 2 months, 16 days)
Princess Margaretha Désirée Victoria, Mrs. Ambler (Sweden, 31 October 1934) ( 88 years, 11 months, 10 days)
Countess Viktoria Adelheid Clementine Louise von Castell-Rüdenhausen-Von Huntington-Whiteley (26 Februrary 1935)(88 years, 7 months, 14 days)
Prince Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick, The Duke of Kent (9 October 1935) (88 years, 0 months, 0 days)
Miss Elizabeth Alice Abel Smith (5 September 1936) (87 years, 1 months, 5 days)
Eldest LIVED Descendants:
On 12 June 2025, Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner will join this list if she is still living.
Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh (10 June 1921-9 April 2021) ( 99 years, 10 months, 11 days)
Princess Alice of Albany, Countess of Athlone (25/02/1883-03/01/1981) (97 years, 10 months, 10 days)
Queen Elizabeth II of The United Kingdom (21 April 1926-8 September 2022) ( 96 years, 4 months, 18 days)
King Mihai I of Romania (25/10/1921-05/12/2017) ( 96 years, 1 month, 11 days)
Count Carl Johan Bernadotte af Wisborg (Sweden) (31/10/1916-05/05/2012) (95 years, 6 months, 5 days )
Count Sigvard Bernadotte af Wisborg (of Sweden) (07/06/1907-04/02/2002) (94 years, 7 months, 28 days )
The Lady Pamela Hicks (19 April 1929) (94 years, 5 months,20 days)
Lady Katherine Brandram (Princess of Greece and Denmark) (04/05/1913 02/10/2007) ( 94 years, 4 months, 27 days )
Infanta Dona Beatriz   Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugénie Cristina Maria Teresia Bienvenida Ladislàa   of Spain, The Princess of Civitella-Cesi   (22/06/1909-22/11/2002) (93 years, 5 months, 1 day)
Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten- Knatchbull  , The 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (14/02/1924-13/06/2017) ( 93 years, 4 months)
FACTS:
The Duke of Edinburgh is the husband  and third cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, first cousin of Lady Katherine Brandram,  The Countess Mountbatten of Burma & Lady Pamela (Mountbatten) Hicks & uncle to Princess Dorothea Charlotte Karin of Hesse.  He is also a 1st cousin 1x removed of  Queen Sofia of Spain, King Constantine II of the Helenes and Princess Irene of Greece & Denmark and The Duke of Kent (The Duke of Kent’s mother Marina was The Duke of Edinburgh’s first cousin).
Queen Elizabeth II is a 3rd cousin of The Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Lady Pamela Mountbatten, The Duke of Edinburgh. She is the wife of The Duke of Edinburgh. Through her marriage, she is an aunt to  Princess Dorothea Charlotte Karin of Hesse. She is a first cousin of The Duke of Kent.
Lady Pamela Hicks is a 3rd cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, a first cousin of  The Duke of Edinburgh, her big sister was The Countess Mountbatten of Burma.
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner is a third cousin of The Countess Mountbatten of Burma, The Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Elizabeth II & Lady Pamela Hicks.
The Countess of Althorne was the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria. By her marriage,  The Countess of Althorne was also a great aunt of Queen Elizabeth II-she married QEII’s grandmother’s brother
King Mihai I of Romania was the last monarch of Romania, he was also a great grandchild of Queen Victoria twice-once through his mother (via Victoria, Princess Royal) and once through his father (via Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha)
Sweden’s Count Carl Johan Bernadotte af Wisborg & Count Sigvard Bernadotte af Wisborg were brothers as well as uncles to King Carl XVI Gustaf, Princess Margareta, Mrs. Ambler, Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Princess of Hohenzollern,  Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld,  Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Princess Benedikte of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg & Queen Anne-Marie of Greece.
Countess Viktoria Adelheid Clementine Louise von Castell-Rüdenhausen-Von Huntington-Whiteley  was a great granddaughter of Prince Leopold, The Duke of Albany, thus a great great granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She is also the younger sister of  Count Bertram Friedrich zu Castell-Rüdenhausen.
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corallapis · 10 months
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 28th May 1923
Monday 28th May — Fairlawne¹
A large Friday to Tuesday party at the Cazalets here to meet HRH Princess Alice² and Lord Athlone. I found Princess Alice delightful, human and pretty in an unostentatious way and even chic. I sat next to her two evenings at dinner and though we had great gossips she was always most kind. She told me only a sense of humour saves her. She is much the easiest of royalties and she rather prides herself on it; she has none of the stupidity nor dullness, yet has their dignity sweetness, and also their esprit de concierge³ . . . the royalties always know more gossip than anyone else. The Earl of Athlone is affable, polite, meticulous and rather and the German cavalry officer in his sense of detail for uniforms, orders, etc. He is less distinguished than his brother, Lord Cambridge⁴ and I am suspicious he minds more being degraded to the rank of a simple per. Mrs Cazalet⁵ always ‘bobs’ to him and refers to him as ‘Prince Algy’. I fancy he does not mind. But then of course we all know the story of how she ‘bobbed’ to the telephone on hearing a royal voice. The Athlones and the Cazalets are old, devoted friends. It is extraordinary Mrs C’s flair for royalty. Even the WC[s] are hung with the Queen’s photographs. On the Monday there was a pageant with 3,000 people looking on. It was opened by the Princess Alice, who enjoyed the three hours watching it in spite of the drizzle which threatened to ruin our costumes. The gardens were an excellent setting. I was Charles II, complete except for the spaniels, and I was much the most applauded. I looked as rakish and as imperious as possible . . . . Lady Irene Curzon⁶ was a corpulent Henrietta Maria. Baba Curzon and Lady Mary Thynne⁷ because of their great beauty were let off with selling programmes to the gaping proletariat.
1. An estate in west Kent, near Tonbridge, owned by the Cazalet family from 1880.
2. Princess Alice Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline (1883-1981), daughter of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, youngest son of Queen Victoria; she was therefore the King’s cousin. She married in 1904 Prince Alexander of Teck (1874-1957), brother of the future Queen Mary; his title was anglicised in 1917 after the creation of the House of Windsor and he was granted the earldom of Athlone, after which his wife was known as Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone.
3. The spirit of a concierge; collecting gossip about all who pass through.
4. Adolphus Charles Alexander Albert Edward George Philip Louis Ladislaus, Duke of Teck (1868-1927). Like his brother, he relinquished his German titles in 1917 and, as brother of the Queen Consort, was created 1st Marquess of Cambridge. His younger brother was one rank below him in the peerage.
5. Maud Lucia Heron-Maxwell (1868-1952), married in 1893 William Marshall Cazalet (1865-1932); she was the mother of Victor Cazalet.
6. Mary Irene Curzon (1896-1966), known as Lady Irene Curzon after her father’s advancement to an earldom in 1911, was Lord Curzon’s eldest daughter. On his death in 1925 she inherited the barony of Ravensdale, and in 1958 was enabled to sit in the House of Lords by being granted a life peerage. She never married, declining a proposal from Victor Cazalet.
7. Lady Mary Beatrice Thynne (1903-74), third daughter of the 5th Marquess of Bath; she married in 1927 Charles Wilson (1904-74), 3rd Baron Nunburnholme.
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wgabry · 2 years
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Princess Alice was born on 25 February 1883 at Windsor Castle to the Duke and Duchess of Albany. Her father was the youngest son of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort.
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colorizedhistory · 3 months
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Helena, Duchess of Albany and her two children, Princess Alice and Prince Charles Edward, late 1880s.
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@archduchessofnowhere is that Marie-Sophie Duchess of Alenćon next to Queen Alexandra? (it might be a different one of Sisi’s sisters but I’m not as familiar with them as you are)
Also people i can identify in this photo are (from left to right): Prince George of Greece and Denmark , Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna, Princess Louise Duchess of Fife, King Edward VII, Princess Alice of Albany, Princess Helena Duchess of Albany, Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, Prince Charles Edward of Albany, Princess Victoria of Wales, Queen Maud of Norway, Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark (?)
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wardrobewrinkled · 2 months
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🎉Feb 10 Today's Royal Wedding🎉
1840– Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha at St. James' Palace, in London.
Queen Victoria proposed to Albert on 15 October 1839, only 5 days after he had arrived at Windsor. Victoria was besotted with Albert. She wrote on the evening after their wedding in her diary:
I NEVER, NEVER spent such an evening!!! MY DEAREST DEAREST DEAR Albert … his excessive love & affection gave me feelings of heavenly love & happiness I never could have hoped to have felt before! He clasped me in his arms, & we kissed each other again & again! His beauty, his sweetness & gentleness—really how can I ever be thankful enough to have such a Husband! … to be called by names of tenderness, I have never yet heard used to me before—was bliss beyond belief! Oh! This was the happiest day of my life!
Queen Victoria wore a white wedding dress made from made from fabric woven in Spitalfields, east London & trimmed with a deep flounce & Honiton lace trimmings. The veil matched the flounce of the dress. Her jewellery consisted of diamond earrings & necklace, & a sapphire brooch given to her by Albert. The slippers she wore matched the dress. The train of the dress was 18 feet (5.5 m) long. Queen Victoria has been credited with starting the tradition of white bridal gowns.
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*Marriage of Victoria & Albert painted by George Hayter, 1842*
The wedding of Victoria & Albert remains the most recent wedding of a reigning British monarch. All monarchs since Victoria were already married when they ascended the throne, except for Edward VIII (who married Wallis Simpson after his abdication).
Queen Victoria & Prince Albert had 9 children:
Victoria, Princess Royal
Edward VII
Princess Alice
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha
Princess Helena
Princess Louise
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught & Strathearn
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
Princess Beatrice
Queen Victoria & Prince Albert also had 42 grandchildren & 87 great-grandchildren. Victoria was called the "grandmother of Europe" because the royal houses of Britain, Norway, Sweden, Spain, and Denmark, are linked to her by blood.
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*Queen Victoria in wedding attire painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1847, as an anniversary present for Prince Albert*
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*Queen Victoria & Prince Albert leaving their marriage service at St James' Palace, London*
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*Victoria wearing her wedding veil & lace in 1893 on the occasion of the wedding of Prince George, Duke of York (the future King George V) & Princess Mary of Teck. The photograph was issued for her Diamond Jubilee*
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