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Princess Irene Of Hesse And By Rhine
Princess Irene Luise Marie Anne of Hesse and by Rhine (11 July 1866 – 11 November 1953) was the third child and third daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine. Her maternal grandparents were Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Her paternal grandparents were Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Elizabeth of Prussia, Princess Elisabeth of Prussia. She was the wife of Prince Henry of Prussia (1862–1929), Prince Henry of Prussia, a younger brother of Wilhelm II, German Emperor and her first cousin. The USS Pocahontas (ID-3044), SS ''Prinzessin Irene'', a liner of the North German Lloyd was named after her. Her siblings included Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, wife of Prince Louis of Battenberg, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse), Empre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Henry Of Prussia (1862–1929)
en, Albert William Henry , image = Prince Henry of Prussia (1862–1929), brother of Kaiser Wilhelm II.jpg , caption = , birth_date= , birth_place= Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia , spouse = , house = Hohenzollern , father = Frederick III, German Emperor , mother = Victoria, Princess Royal , issue = Prince Waldemar Prince SigismundPrince Henry , death_date = , death_place = Schloss Hemmelmark, Barkelsby, Schleswig-Holstein, Weimar Republic , burial_date = 24 April 1929 , burial_place = Schloss Hemmelmark, Barkelsby, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany , module = Prince Albert William Henry of Prussia (german: Albert Wilhelm Heinrich; 14 August 1862 – 20 April 1929) was a younger brother of German Emperor William II and a Prince of Prussia. He was also a grandson of Queen Victoria. A career naval officer, he held various commands in the Imperial German Navy and eventually rose to the rank of Grand Admiral and Gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Elizabeth Of Prussia
, spouse = , issue = Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine Prince Henry Anna, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-SchwerinPrince William , house = Hohenzollern , father = Prince Wilhelm of Prussia , mother = Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg , birth_date = 18 June 1815 , birth_place = Berlin Palace, Kingdom of Prussia , death_date = , death_place = Bessungen, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire , burial_place = , image = Princess Elisabeth of Prussia.jpg Princess Elisabeth of Prussia (18 June 1815 – 21 March 1885) was the second daughter of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg and a granddaughter of Frederick William II of Prussia. Through her eldest son, Louis IV Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was her great-great-grandson, and is consequently an ancestor of Charles III. Biography Elisabeth was born in Berlin to Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria, Princess Royal
Victoria, Princess Royal (Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa; 21 November 1840 – 5 August 1901) was German Empress and Queen of Prussia as the wife of German Emperor Frederick III. She was the eldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and was created Princess Royal in 1841. She was the mother of Wilhelm II, German Emperor. Educated by her father in a politically liberal environment, Victoria was married at age 17 to Prince Frederick of Prussia, with whom she had eight children. Victoria shared with Frederick her liberal views and hopes that Prussia and the later German Empire should become a constitutional monarchy, based on the British model. Criticised for this attitude and for her English origins, Victoria suffered ostracism by the Hohenzollerns and the Berlin court. This isolation increased after the rise to power of Otto von Bismarck, one of her most staunch political opponents, in 1862. Victoria was empress for o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
