#prince Henry of prussia

[royal-confessions]

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

[best-hohenzollern-ruler]

Bonus Round: Best General

Prince Heinrich of Prussia (1726–1802)

Prinz Heinrich prominently served as a general during the Seven Year's War. What contemporaries and historians alike have found so impressive about his leadership was that he made so few, if any, blunders in carrying out the war. This was a sentiment echoed by his brother, Frederick the Great, who absorbs much of the credit by osmosis. His victories and maneuvers allowed his brother to carry on a war that the prince would have preferred to be ended sooner than 1756. Outside of war, he is his own colorful character, in line with that generation of Hohenzollern men and women.

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742-1819)

What hot blooded Prussian does not know the name Blücher? It is he we have to thank for the defeat of the villain Napoleon - not once, but twice! The first great defeat at Leipzig restored Prussia to her place of due prominence among the nations of Europe. At Waterloo, he and his troops arrived as Wellington's guardian angels to defeat the Corsican devil. The main army battered, the reserves shunted away, Blücher became an immortal hero to all who opposed shrimpy French tyranny.

Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831)

Clausewitz's greatest achievement is his book Vom Krieg (On War), a tome that rewrote the rules of conflict for a post Napoleonic age. Among many of the revolutionary ideas contained with in it, a few to highlight are the "fog of war", the concept of friction and the idea of a military genius.

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800-1891)

As Chief of the Prussian General Staff, Moltke worked hand in hand with War Minister von Roon to deliver three swift victories for the Prussian state. It was his genius on display during Königgratz, during Sedan and Metz and Gravelotte. Without him, Prussia's ascendancy and Germany's unification would not have been possible.

Moltke understood that with the growing size of modern armies, generalship such as that underneath Napoleon or Blücher was unfeasible. Instead of a general leading his army as a whole, Motlke devised a corp system wherein smaller clusters of troops would move independently of each other — Theodor, get your hands off of me!

[the-last-tsar]

Nicholas II with brother Grand Duke Michael and brother in law, Prince Henry of Prussia.

(source: 📷)

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

Hello! I really love your blog so much, but my life is falling apart rn 💀😭 Lemme explain everything! So you remember ur recent post, it was a parallel about Olga and Tatiana in Wolgsgarten in 1899 vs 1903? So, I was scrolling down Pinterest and found the full photo of 1903. In that photo were also Masha and Nastya. Everything seems so normal, but in that photo is also a boy!! The girl who created or saved that pin, idk what exactly she did lmao, said that was Georg Donatus? BUT HE WAS BORN IN 1906 RIGHT?? And even if that was him, the boy looked the same age as Maria and Anastasia, which shouldn't be cuz George is 7 and 5 years younger of each of them!! AND AGAIN, if it was really Georg at the age of, like, 3, Olga would be 14 at the time and it's obviously none of the children is older than eight in the photo!!! I am very confused so PLEASE PLEASE answer this 🙏🩵

here is link to the photo:

https://pin.it/65Nbhak

Hiii! Aw thank you for the compliments! Your making my day! 💕

The person who was identifying the photo was COMPLETELY wrong! That boy is OTMA’s cousin Prince Heinrich of Prussia, son of Princess Irene (Alix’s sis) and Prince Henry of Prussia. He was born in 1900 and was 3 years old here. He was right in the middle of Mashka and Nastya in age!

He sadly died one year later because he had Hemophilia.

Thank you for asking and I’m glad that you trusted me to help! 🤍✨🤟

[kattestrophe]

Personal Field Trip to Huis Doorn - Photos of fun things

Huis Doorn in the Netherlands was the last home of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany. It is, of course, interesting for that reason, but I will readily admit that I visited it for and got distracted by all of the Frederick Merch it houses.

First: Actual Originals from Frederick's collection

Friech and the Gang! And pastoral scenes by Lancret. This room is the one that is officially filled with tons of Frederick Memorabilia. Most of it is stored in three glass cases that are stuffed to the brim. Too much for me to photograph. There is something that I think is a Friech pipe-head?

And that one teapot!

AND HENRI!!! I mainly went there for Henry, ngl.

Swedish Henri, I love him. I giggled with glee. He is so beautiful.

There were about 50 more pictures of Friech, not counting the bazillion miniatures and merch pieces, including a very funny lamp.

Apart from the Friech stuff, Doorn is just a very nicely furnished villa with very old furniture. Very nice, very pretty.

And finally, this amazing tapestry that was gifted to Henri in the 1770s. Yes, tapestry.

So overall: Visit Doorn if you end up close to Utrecht, they do tours in Dutch and German, on Sundays you can visit with an audioguide (English version available). The guides are very nice and I'm sure the park is nice to walk through too if it's not pouring. Very fun day overall, will visit again.

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

Princess Irene of Prussia (neé Hesse) with her three sons, Waldemar Sigismund and Heinrich (who is clinging to his mama 🥹💗🤍), early 1900s

[kaiserrreich]

Family photo with (R to L) Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, German Crown Princess Victoria (Frederick) and Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia, Princess Charlotte and Prince Henry of Prussia.

[roehenstart]

Prince Henry of Prussia (1862-1929) when a Child. By George Koberwein.

Henry was the younger brother of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany. He made a career as a naval officer, holding various commands in the Imperial German Navy and was eventually promoted to the rank of Grand Admiral.

[dreamofstarlight]

i just find it so funny and so interesting that Anthony Radziwiłł great-great-great-great uncle Prince Henry of Prussia was suggested as a candidate to be the King of the United States. Like imagine if he accepted, the kennedys would've been part of history either way lol.

It would definitely have been an interesting turn of events!

[drosera-nepenthes]

Prince Henry of Prussia, who has just met with the very disagreeable experience of having a shower of stones thrown at him by motorphobe hooligans, is a favourite nephew of King Edward. His Imperial Highness, like another royal motorist who has been lately attracting attention, occupies the delicate position of being only brother to a reigning potentate, and he also like the Duke of Oporto, is fortunate in his relations with his elder. Prince Henry first came prominently before the world as the bearer of the “mailed fist” message to the Far East. He is the sailor of the Hohenzollern clan, and he and his pretty, half-English Princess inhabit the wonderful old castle of Kiel. Of late years the Prince has taken up motoring with extraordinary zeal; he took part in the Herkomer Race, and has done all in his power, by precept and example, to give an impetus to the German motoring industry.

The Sketch, Sep 5, 1906

[gilsart]

prince henri in his room

[marquisevonobst]

Anna Dorothea Therbusch, geb. Lisiewska

PRINZ HEINRICH VON PREUẞEN, UM 1773

Öl auf Leinwand, 275 x 185 cm

Finally got the permission to take a proper picture of this painting.

[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.

[saint-lavande]

So you know that Claus Clausen played Hans Hermann von Katte in "Der alte und der junge König" (1935). You may also know that he played Prince Heinrich in "Der große König" (1942) but now I found this: him as young Friedrich 1930 in Königsberg on stage.

He played them all.

[mariedemedicis]

reading a caroline of ansbach bio and now i’m sad i can’t make it work for her to marry into my surviving sturt au :(

[history-of-fashion]

1830 Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow - Prince Frederick William Louis of Prussia and Prince Frederick William Henry Casimir of Solms-Braunfels

(Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf)