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EXTREMELY rare photos of Princesses Victoria and Elisabeth of Hesse and By Rhine, early 1870s
Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III 2023
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thehessiansisters · 6 months
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Full length portraits of Prince and Princess Louis of Battenberg, 1884.
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the-last-tsar · 8 months
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"There once were four sisters — Victoria, Ella, Irene and Alix — who lived in an obscure grand duchy in south-western Germany, a place of winding cobbled streets and dark forests made legendary in the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. In their day, these four princesses of the house of Hesse and by Rhine were considered by many to be "the flowers of Queen Victoria's flock of granddaughters", celebrated for their beauty, intelligence and charm. As they grew up they became the object of intense scrutiny on that most fraught of international stages — the royal marriage market of Europe. Despite their lack of large dowries or vast territories, each sister in turn married well. But it was to the youngest and most beautiful of the four that fate dealt the biggest hand."
The Romanov Sisters | Helen Rappaport
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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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romanovsonelastdance · 11 months
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Postcard featuring the five surviving Hesse-Darmstadt siblings and their spouses.
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ykzzr · 1 year
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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.
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empressminnie · 23 hours
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Princess Alix of Hesse, ca. 1892-1894.
In order of appearance in the album.
Original source here
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krasivaa · 10 months
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reblog for your followers to an tell you what romanov/Hesse sister you remind them of.//
Umm you remind me of little bit of Alix and Victoria!
Omg thank you bestie!! I love them both so I'm glad I reminds you of them💙
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tiny-librarian · 2 years
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Royal Birthdays for today, April 5th:
Isabella of Hainault, Queen of France, 1170
James III, King of Majorca, 1350
Bianca Maria Sforza, Holy Roman Empress, 1472
Elizabeth of Sweden, Duchess of  Mecklenburg-Gadebusch, 1549
Maria Amalia, Archduchess of Austria, 1724
Alexander of Battenberg, Prince of Bulgaria, 1857
Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Marchioness of Milford Haven, 1863
Ubol Ratana, Princess of Thailand, 1951
Maria Paloma of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Archduchess of Austria, 1967
Camilla of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Castro, 1971
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n0brainjustvibes · 4 months
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Y'know, if I ever actually did something with Penumbra (sophia/vic), I'd take the "Steven was predatory or abusive to Sophia in a hidden-in-plain-sight way" trigger theory and run with it. I generally prefer physical confrontation trigger theories, but this gets you a Shadow Stalker based around this line:
“If it weren’t for all the crying and the complaining, I would almost be glad Leviathan had attacked the city.  Tear away that fucking ridiculous veneer that covers everything.  Get rid of those fucking fake smiles and social niceties and daily routines that everyone hides behind.”
Tear away that veneer. This Sophia interpretation would be convinced that all kindness or politeness is covering up brutality, either theirs or someone else's, and pride herself on doing away with this masquerade (read: openly being a dick). She'd also believe, from personal experience, that families and hero teams both are primed to conceal abuse.
And then you have the Dallons and New "Transparancy" Wave.
Sophia doesn't buy for one minute that they're really accountable. The more open and loving they make their public image, the more convinced she is that they're hiding something. This is kinda fun already with the Wards working parallel with New Wave, but not outright teaming up - she's keeping an eye on them, trying to justify her convictions. She's more than a little self-satisfied when she comes across Glory Girl on one of her extrajudicial torture excursions.
Now you can bounce her off Victoria in a whole bunch of ways. There's something to be done with how Vic uses makeup to hide wounds and give the illusion of invulnerability, for sure... there's also the fact that Sophia would not - having mentally categorised Victoria as "strong" - write off Vic's trigger as insignificant, even if Vic herself was writing it off as such. She'd also be puzzled as to why Victoria didn't lash out in response to her family's (cough, Carol's, cough) passive-aggression towards Vic and Amy. "I've seen you out there. You're not weak, and you're not some spineless coward. I thought you had self-respect. Why don't you do something? Throw their ugliness back in their faces, make them fucking see it."
Funnily enough, she would write Amy off as weak... that's gonna be fun, if she's still around to see the S9 arc play out in any capacity.
Anyways, yeah, I dunno. Just a fun relationship layer. I really like bumping early-Worm Shadow Stalker and Glory Girl up against one another's families.
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adini-nikolaevna · 10 months
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“I was photographed as Princess Charlotte because Grandmother thinks I look like her.”
— Princess Victoria of Hesse to her brother, Hereditary Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig, 1882.
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EXTREMELY RARE photo of Princesses Victoria, Elisabeth, and Irene of Hesse and By Rhine, 1868-69 🤍✨⭐️
Source: my lucky day at the Hessian State Archives
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thehessiansisters · 9 months
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Photograph of Princesses Elisabeth and Victoria with their maternal cousins, Princesses Sophia, Viktoria and Margaret of Prussia and Princess Charlotte, Hereditary Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen, 1882.
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thepariahcontinuum · 2 months
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Invidiak - Chapter 06: Never Split Up
Taylor has the heroes where she wants them, time to start the final act.
FF Net
Ao3
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duchesssoflennox · 3 months
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JOSEFINE SWOBODA AND QUEEN VICTORIA’S FAMILY 💖🥺❤️‍🩹
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Beautiful portraits painted by the talented painter Josefine Swoboda (1861-1924) of the granddaughters and Great-granddaughters of Queen Victoria 🥺🦋🤍
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