Empress Gallery

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and their Children

Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and Prince Consort Albert (1819-1961) and their Family (from top left, going across and then down): Victoria, Princess Royal (Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa), German Empress and Queen of Prussia by marriage to German Emperor Frederick III (1840-1901), King Edward VII (1841-1910), Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (formerly The Duke of Edinburgh) (1840-1900), The Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-1884), The Duke of Connaught (1850-1942), Helena, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (1846-1923), Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine (1843-1878), Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (later Princess Henry of Battenberg) (1857-1944) and Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939). Date: circa 1910

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The Hesse-Cassel and Greek royal families

The youngest daughters of Vicky, Princess Royal of Great Britain and Empress of Prussia, the Princesses Sophie and Margarete of Prussia with their husbands and children at Friedrichshof in 1904. Sophie is in the darker dress, standing beside her husband Constantine, Duke of Sparta. Margarete ('Mossy') is on the right, next to her husband Friedrich Karl of Hesse-Cassel. The children are, from the left, George of Greece (standing), Philipp of Hesse-Cassel, Helen of Greece, Maximilian of Hesse-Cassel, Paul of Greece (behind, in a dress), Wolfgang of Hsse-Cassel, directly in front of his elder brother Friedrich Wilhelm, Alexander of Greece in front of Richard of Hesse-Cassel and Christoph of Hesse-Cassel. Margarete was unusual in that out of her six sons, four of them were sets of twins

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Hesse - Princess Alice and her children

Princess Alice of Great Britain, third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria, later Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine (1843 -1878), pictured with her husband, Ludwig (Louis) IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and her children. Clockwise from far left: Princess Victoria, later Marchioness of Milford Haven, the Grand Duke holding Princess Marie (1874 - 1878), Princess Alice with her arms around Princess Alix (later Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, wife of Tsar Nicholas II), Princess Elizabeth (Ella, later Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna of Russia), Princess Irene (later Princess Henry of Prussia) and Prince Ernst Ludwig (Ernest Louis, known as Ernie), later Grand Duke of Hesse.
1875

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