Princess 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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Battenberg family, 1906

Prince Louis of Battenberg, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven with his wife, Princess Victoria of Hesse, their four children, their son-in-law and two grandchildren. From left (seated), Princess Louise (1889-1965), later Lady Louise Mountbatten and then Queen Louise of Sweden, Princess Victoria (1863-1950), Marchioness of Milford Haven holding her two grand-daughters, Princess Margarita (1905-1981) and Princess Theodora (1906-1969). Next to her is her eldest daugher (and mother of the two babies), Princess Alice of Battenberg, then Princess Andrew of Greece (1885-1969), mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Seated on the ground are Lord Louis Mountbatten (1900-1979) and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (1892-1938). Standing is Prince Louis of Battenberg, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven (1854-1921) and his son-in-law, and husband of Alice, Prince Andrew of Greece (1882-1944). Date: 1906

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Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev and Princess Grace of Monaco

Margot Fonteyn (R) speaks 02 July 1968 with Soviet born ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev (C) and Princess Grace of Monaco in front of the stage setting for the Third International Ballet Festival in Monte Carlo. Nureyev studied at the Leningrad Choreographic School, and became a soloist with the Kirov Ballet. While touring with the Ballet in 1961, he obtained political asylum in Paris. Nureyev's virtuosity and expressiveness made him one of the greatest male dancers of the 1960's, in both classical and modern ballets. He became ballet director of the Paris Opera in 1983. / AFP PHOTO

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