The Husbands of the Four Graces
Some time ago, I read a very interesting book about Queen Victoria's Hessian Granddaughters (Victoria, Elizabeth, Irene, and Alix.) The title was "The Four Graces," and ever since I read it, that is the way I think about the daughters of Grand Duke of Louis IV of Hesse and by Rhine and the beautiful princess Alice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second daughter of Queen Victoria.
These young women were among the most marriageable princesses of their generation. They were beautiful, accomplished and Queen Victoria's granddaughters. There was no need to look for husbands for them. Among their suitors could be found future Kaisers, Tsars and Kings of England even though it was well known that any or all of the princesses could be carriers of hemophilia (inherited from their august grandmother Victoria.) Their sons might be bleeders. One of their brother's had been, therefore Princess Alice, their mother, had been a carrier.
The four men they married appear in the first photograph above; one marquess, one prince, one grand duke, and one Emperor (all of them very handsome):
👑Louis Mountbatten, first Marques of Milford Heaven (the man all the way to the left on the picture) married Princess Victoria Alberta Elisabeth Mathilde Marie of Hesse and By Rhine. Victoria and Louis had two sons and neither one of them had hemophillia.
👑The Hohenzollern Prince and brother of the German Keiser, Prince Heinrich of Prussia (the man to the right of Mountbatten in the photograph) married Princess Irene Luise Marie Anne of Hesse and By Rhine. They were first cousins since Heinrich was the son of Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, the Princess Royal, who was the older sister of Princess Alice. They had three sons. Two out of the three had hemophilia. One died in childhood of causes related to that disease.
👑 Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (the man to the right of Prince Heinrich) married Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Louise Alice of Hesse and by Rhine. Sergei and Elizabeth had no children.
👑The soon-to-be Tsar Nicholas II of Russia married Alix Viktoria Helene Luise Beatrix. Alix had one son, and he had hemophilia. (gcl)
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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.
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King Ludwig Ist's Gallery of Beauties.
A retexture by La Comtesse Zouboff — Original Mesh by @thejim07
The Gallery of Beauties (Schönheitengalerie) is a collection of 38 small portraits of the most beautiful women from the nobility and middle classes of Munich, Germany painted between 1827 and 1850 (mostly by Karl Joseph Stieler, appointed court painter in 1820) and gathered by Ludwig I of Bavaria in the south pavilion of Nymphenburg Palace in Munich. Two additional ones were created by Friedrick Drück and one portrait was stolen in the XXth century and remains missing.
The set includes all the 38 portraits, with the original frame swatches, fully recolorable. The portraits are of:
Friederike von Gumppenberg (later Baroness von Gumppenberg).
Amalia von Schintling.
Amalie Maximilianovna von Krüdener (née von Lerchenfeld) Baroness von Krüdener.
Anna Hillmayer.
Anna von Greiner (née Bartelmann)
Antonietta Cornelia Vetterlein.
Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria, Princess of Bavaria.
Auguste Strobl (first version).
Auguste Strobl (second version).
Baroness Mathilde von Jordan.
Carlotta von Boos zu Waldeck (née von Breidbach-Bürresheim) Baroness von Breidbach-Bürresheim.
Caroline Maximiliana Maria von Holnstein (née von Spiering) Countess von Holnstein aus Bayern
Elise List (later Elise Pacher von Theinburg
Eliza Rosanna James (née Gilbert), Known ss Lola Montez.
Helene Kreszenz Sedlmayr.
Irene Pallavicini, Marchioness Pallavicini and Countess von Arco un Steppberg.
Isabella, Countess von Traufkirchen-Engelberg.
Jane Elizabeth Digby, Later Baroness von Venningen.
Josepha Conti (née Reh).
Karolina Lizius.
Katharina Rosa Botsaris in a Traditional Greek Costume.
Lady Theresa Spence (née Renard) as Sapho of Lesbos.
Maria Dietsch (In prayer, first version).
Maria Dietsch (second version).
Marianna Florenzi (née Bacinetti) Marchioness Florenzi.
Marie Friederike Franziska Hedwig of Prussia, Crown Princess of Bavaria.
Maximiliane Borzaga.
Nanette von Kaulla.
Princess Alexandra Amalie of Bavaria.
Caroline von Oettingen-Wallerstein (later Countess von Waldbott-Bassenheim.
Regina Daxenberger.
Rosalie Julie von Bonar (née von Wüllerstorf-Urbair) Baroness von Bonar.
Sophie Friederike Dorothea Wilhemine, Archduchess of Austria (née Princess of Bavaria).
The Actress Charlotte von Hagn-Schwab as Thekla in Schiller's "Wallenstein".
The Actress Friederica Katharina "Willhemine" Sulzer.
The Dancer Antonia Wallinger as Hebe.
The Honourable Emily Mikbanke-Huskisson (née Mansfield)
The Honourable Jane Plumer-Callander (née Erskine)
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Retextured from the "Portrait of Balsasarre Castiglione" found here
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Sunderland's Royal Jewel Vault (2/∞) ♛
↬ The Coronation Park Tiara
The Coronation Park Tiara was made by Garrard & Co. for Queen Alexandra, the Russian-born wife of King George, to wear at celebrations for their Golden Jubilee in 1910. The tiara, nicknamed "The Big Gun" by the King, stood at 8 cm tall and was originally set with 12 rubies originally owned by Alexandra's grandmother, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia (née Princess Charlotte of Prussia).
In 1931, Alexandra's granddaughter-in-law, Queen Anne, commissioned Cartier to remove the rubies to accommodate the making of several pieces of jewelry, including what would become the engagement ring of Ruby, Princess of Danforth. The rubies were replaced with brilliant-cut diamonds. The conservative Anne never wore the tiara, labelling it: A beastly contraption which ought never to grace the head of a lady well attuned to finer things.
The tiara came into use again almost forty years later in the late 1960s, when it was worn several times by Queen Katherine, who used the tiara to accessorize her bouffants and dramatic beehive hairdos. Katherine later loaned the tiara to her daughter-in-law Irene for the 1982 royal tour of South America, but Irene seldom wore the tiara again describing it as Intimidating and Not particularly comfortable.
The tiara remained in Katherine's possession until 1998, when she bequeathed it to the then Lady Tatiana Farnsworth as a wedding present, feeling the former ballerina possessed enough grace to do the tiara justice. Tatiana didn't wear the tiara until 2014, when she felt she had grown into it.
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