#victoria of battenberg

[loiladadiani]

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]

Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, Ernst Louis, Princess Victoria of Battenberg and her family, Princess Alice and her husband Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Louise 1900s.

[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.

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

EXTREMELY rare photos of Princesses Victoria and Elisabeth of Hesse and By Rhine, early 1870s

Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III 2023

[philibetexcerpts]

On 15 December 1948, Prince Charles was christened in the Music Room of Buckingham Palace.

[adini-nikolaevna]

"Possibly no debutante ever enjoyed her first season more than did Princess Victoria Eugenie. Accompanied by her mother and Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg, she went everywhere, and wherever she appeared, she won golden opinions by her beauty, her unaffected charm of manner, and her sweet winsomeness. Her delight in life was perfected by an inherent desire to give delight to others, and her gaiety was always tempered by a vivid gift of sympathy, which endeared her to young and old alike. Then, towards the close of her first season--while yet the great world was new to her, and witching and wonderful--Don Alfonso crossed the path of the young princess. Never was a more desperate case of love at first sight. If it was true that the King came upon a quest, his quest was over."

-- Albert Frederick Calvert on Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, who would marry King Alfonso of Spain. "Ena," as she was called, was a carrier of the hemophilia gene, and the disease was thus brought into the Spanish royal family. Although he was aware of the possibility, when it became clear that his son and heir had inherited the dreaded condition, Alfonso blamed Ena, and he never forgave her.

"A more elegant woman one rarely sees anywhere in the world. The eye of the Spanish people, quick and sensitive to taste and beauty, instantly caught all these details, and even if her nature, disposition, and character were not what they are, she would still be idolised for her beauty alone.

-- Kellogg Durland, 1911

[duchesssoflennox]

JOSEFINE SWOBODA AND QUEEN VICTORIA’S FAMILY 💖🥺❤️‍🩹

Beautiful portraits painted by the talented painter Josefine Swoboda (1861-1924) of the granddaughters and Great-granddaughters of Queen Victoria 🥺🦋🤍

[demolina]

Stills of Ena, the new spanish tv series about the life of Queen Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg.

[thehessiansisters]

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

[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

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Queen Victoria’s painting of her daughter Princess Beatrice, 15 July 1860.

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Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.

Her reign of 63 years and 216 days is known as the Victorian era and was longer than any of her predecessors.

Princess Beatrice VA, CI, GCVO, GBE, RRC, GCStJ (Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore; 14 April 1857 – 26 October 1944), later Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

Princess Beatrice was also the last of Queen Victoria's children to die, nearly 66 years after the first, her elder sister Alice.

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

~ ROYALS AND THEIR SIGNATURES ~

Part 1/3

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Queen Alexandra(Alexandra of Denmark)

Princess Beatrice of Battenberg

Princess Victoria of Wales

Queen Victoria

King Edward VII

Louise, Princess Royal & Duchess of Fife

Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna(Alix of Hesse)

Tsar Nicholas II

Queen Maud of Norway(Maud of Wales)

[ykzzr]

Princess Victoria of Battenberg and her husband Prince Ludwig of Battenberg and their children Louise and George with Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna.

[empress-alexandra]

Daughters of Grand Duke Louis IV and Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse - Princess Alix of Hesse (later Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia), Princess Victoria, Marchioness of Milford Haven, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia and Princess Irene, Princess Henry of Prussia on the occasion of Princess Alix' engagement to Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, 1894.

[isadomna]

"is the story of a woman in a very difficult period, but it is also the story of an Englishwoman raised by Queen Victoria herself, with her own culture and her vision of the monarchy. If Alfonso XIII had listened to her more, perhaps our History would have been different. Personally, she had to learn Spanish on her own and deal with her children's hemophilia."

Javier Olivares, creator

ENA 2024

Kimberley Tell as Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg

Joan Amargós  as Alfonso XIII of Spain

Elvira Mínguez as Maria Christina of Austria

[romanovsonelastdance]

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