Veteran of 5 Coronations! After such a very long reign as the one just ended, not many of us can remember even one Coronation and are beginning to get excited about the upcoming Coronation of King Charles III. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, in one of her Jubilee interviews, marvelled that she had been lucky… Continue reading Pocket Profile – Princess Alice of Albany, Countess of Athlone
Tag: Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
Pocket Profiles – Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha
Today is Queen Victoria's 203rd birthday, so let's check in on one of her granddaughters. This is a long one, but I just couldn't find a way to shorten such an eventful life. Get your coffee ; ). If you don't like shortened forms of names, you might want to avert your eyes from this… Continue reading Pocket Profiles – Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha
Pocket Profile – Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (Louie)
Is the name Franziska Josepha Louise Augusta Marie Christina Helena of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg too much to trip off your tongue? Let's just call her Louie, like her family did. Princess Louie was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Her mother was Princess Helena, the third daughter of Queen Victoria, and her father was Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein.… Continue reading Pocket Profile – Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (Louie)
Spam the Granddaughters – Queen Victoria’s Birthday
Note: Since we have the Cambridge Open Post, a new(er) Bits, and are celebrating Queen Victoria's birthday today, we are pushing this week’s Bits to the middle of the week. Queen Victoria, who was born on this day in 1819, had 42 grandchildren, 22 of them granddaughters. Among the girls there were four who became… Continue reading Spam the Granddaughters – Queen Victoria’s Birthday
Pocket Profile – Empress Alexandra Feodorovna
Princess Alix Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice was born in 1872, the sixth child of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine, and the 26th grandchild of Queen Victoria. Known as Sunny in her childhood, her early untroubled existence was interrupted by a series of misfortunes. By the… Continue reading Pocket Profile – Empress Alexandra Feodorovna