#Eleonore of Hesse

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Princess Irene of Prussia, Grand Duchess Eleonore of Hesse, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, Princess Victoria of Battenberg, and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna in Wolfsgarten, 1910

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Grand Duchess Eleonore of Hesse and by Rhine, Prince Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and his wife, Hereditary Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine and Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine at the Bayreuth Festival in 1932.

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The Family of Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse and by Rhine.

From left: Georg Donatus, Ludwig (Louis), Eleonor, and Ernest Louis.

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Presumably onboard the Standart. April-May 1912

The daughters of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Hessian relatives, Grand Duchess Eleonore of Hesse and little prince Ludwig and hereditary Grand Duke George Donatus. Early 1910s.

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𝙲𝚑𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚁𝚘𝚢𝚊𝚕 𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚗 👑✨🍫

(𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝟺 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝟺)

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Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood and Princess Royal.

Crown Princess Cecilie of Prussia, née Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

Grand Duchess Eleonore of Hesse, née Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich.

Empress Eugenie of France, née Eugenie de Montijo.

Princess Marie Louise of Baden, née Princess Marie Louise of Hanover.

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna

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Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse (1868 - 1937) and his children

Ernst Ludwig was the son of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and By Rhine, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom. His four sisters were Victoria (mother to Alice Mountbatten and, therefore, grandmother of Prince Phillip,) Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, a martyr of the Russian Revolution and a saint, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, and Princess Irene (she was known as Princess Heinrich because she married Prince Heinrich, the brother of the Keiser.)

He suffered many painful losses throughout his life, including that of his beloved firstborn, daughter Elizabeth, whom he fathered with Victoria Melita, Princess of Edinburgh. The beautiful girl died two years after the couple divorced. Subsequently, he entered a second marriage with Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (the family called her Onor.) He had two sons with Onor, George Donatus (George Donatus married a sister of Prince Phillip) and Louis.

Ernst Ludwig adored children all his life and was always ready to romp with his own, his sisters' children (OTMAA), and later with his grandchildren. He never got over the death of his beautiful little daughter.

Here are several pictures of him with his boys and an unidentified little girl and a picture of the Duke with his beloved daughter.

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New photographs of the last Romanov family (scroll to see them all!)

Some of the photographs were previously only available for viewing in very low resolution - see these photos for before vs after to show the difference!

The photos mostly originate from the meetings of the Romanov family with their Hessian relatives: the Tsarina’s brother Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig, his wife Grand Duchess Eleonore, and their children, Georg Donatus and Ludwig. Photographs include the family on the Standart yacht, in the Livadia Palace dining hall, and at events greeting the public, from around 1910 to 1912.

Sources and photos: 

📍Ольга, @om871218 (Pinterest), [accessed November 2024]

📍Darmstadt (Hesse), Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt

— I have cropped the photos so just the images are shown, and no background walls/screens 

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Hesse Strawberry Leaf Tiara, Garrard, circa 1861

Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse (1871)

Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse (1898) /

Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, Grand Duchess of Hesse (c.1910)

Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse (1937)

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Someone should truly speak bout the “later wife effect” that seems to have haunted historical figures since times long forgotten.

To break it down to you, what I call the “later wife effect” occurs when a male historical figure suddenly looses his beloved wife (most of the times, his first one) in an untimely and tragic manner -either by a childbirth gone wrong, an accident or a sudden illness-, turning the once mirthful husband into a grief-stricken widower. Perhaps because he lacks succession from said wife, because he has to provide spares to his heir, or even because an alliance is needed, he is forced to marry again; but the love never arises fully, their marriage turns into a bound of duty, and no matter what she does, or how loved she is outside their marriage: the later wife will forever be under the shadow of the first, a perfect idol, immortalised by her early death.

The “later wife effect” knows various levels:

In 1673, Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, lost his beloved Margaret Theresa when she was yet to turn twenty two and with child. Their seven years of union had produced four children, but only a daughter lived when Margaret Theresa died, and he went on to marry twice again; and even though he would sorrowfully remark that neither Claudia Felicitas of Austria or Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg, his following brides, were “not like my only Margaretha”, his marriages were remarkably happy and so was he. This could be one of the mildest examples.

The middle ground would be when the marriage with the later wife is dutiful and polite, but loveless. Frederick William II of Hesse married Alexandra Nikolaevna, but soon lost her due to complications of childbirth. He would remarry nine years later to the beautiful and lively Anna of Prussia, and even though they eventually had six children, their marriage was notably cold and unhappy. Leopold I of Belgium widowed of his wife, Charlotte of Wales, soon after she gave birth to a dead son; fifteen years later, know king of Belgium, he took Louise-Marie of Orléans hand in marriage; she was shy, delicate, witty and partook in many charitable causes, earning the love of the Belgians, and the respect of her husband, with whom she had a fruitful and tranquil union; but Leopold would not be faithful to her, committing adultery with a much younger Arcadie Claret, who was said to resemble the long gone princess Charlotte. She perished a year after he had a son with Claret, and her dead did not stop the relationship between the two of them.

More unhappy cases of this effect would be those of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, and his descendant, Joseph II. When still an archduke, Maximilian married Mary of Burgundy and loved her much, a love so legendary it lived through generations in the art commissioned by their descendants. But the fairytale would come to an abrupt end when, after five years of marriage, Mary would find her untimely dead while pregnant with their fourth child, after her horse threw her off the saddle. Maximilian was most heartbroken and, after a failed marriage attempt with the young duchess Anne of Brittany, he would wed Bianca Maria Sforza. The empress from Milan was deemed “more beautiful than Mary” by Maximilian, but neither her beauty not her many charms of her would soften his callous attitude towards his wife. Having endured a miscarriage during the first months of their union, Bianca Maria, the once most sought after princess in Europe, had become a ghost in her own court, severely neglected by her husband, who refused to attend to her own funeral nor dedicate a gravestone for her. Similarly, after the traumatic passing of his wife, Isabella of Parma, Joseph II was forced to remarry to Maria Josepha of Bavaria, who he did not found as attractive as the late archduchess. He grew so disgusted of her that the same devoted husband that has been by Isabella’s bedside now commanded to put a wall between his balcony and hers, so that he could not see her, distressing old servants in the palace so much with his cold attitude that some left. When, after two years of marriage, her life was robbed by smallpox -the same ailment that had taken Isabella’s life four years before-, Joseph declared she had been worthy of respect and that he repented his coldness. However, he refused to visit her bedside and did not appear during her burial.

This should not be confused with what I call “the younger wife effect”, which takes place when a widowed historical figure, who had long remained unwed by choice, suddenly takes marriage to a beautiful and much younger person that is described to bring happiness to his once lonely and dull life. This would perfectly be exemplified with prince Maximilian of Saxony’s marriage with princess Maria Luisa Carlota of Parma, almost twenty one years since the passing of his wife (princess Carolina of Parma).

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(035) Die drei ??? und der Höhlenmensch

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Das Skelett eines Urzeitmenschen lockt Justus, Bob und Peter in den kleinen Ort Citrus Grove. Kaum sind sie dort, als es auch schon zu rätselhaften Zwischenfällen kommt. Erwacht der Urmensch zu geheimnisvollem Leben? Und wieso legen sich plötzlich alle Bewohner von Citrus Grove zum Schlafen in den Park … ?

Veröffentlichungshistorie

Buch (Random House): 034, 1982, M. V. Carey, The Mystery of the Wandering Caveman Buch (Kosmos): 034, 1984, Leonore Puschert (aus dem Amerikanischen übertragen) Hörspiel (Europa): 035, 1984

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Handlungsort

Citrus Grove

Kategorie

Spuk, Betrug

Figuren

Justus Jonas

Peter Shaw

Bob Andrews

Dr. Birkensteen, arbeitet in der Spicer-Stiftung

Eleonor Hess, pflegt Tiere im Spicer-Stiftung

Dr. Teriano/Tereano, arbeitet in der Spicer-Stiftung

Mr. Wolfe, LKW-Fahrer

Ned McGhee, Onkel von Eleonor

Dr. Brandon, arbeitet in der Spicer-Stiftung

Frank DiStefano, Gehilfe von Dr. Brandon (😈)

John

Dr. Elwood Hoffer, arbeitet in der Spicer-Stiftung (😈)

Bürgermeister

Thalia McGee, Frau von Ned McGhee

Sheriff

🏖 Rocky Beach Universum

Orte

Harbor View Lane, scheint in der Nähe vom Schrottplatz zu sein

Sunset Boulevard

Einrichtungen

Gebrauchtwarencenter T. Jonas

Spicer-Stiftung, liegt in Citrus Grove

Citrus Grove, kleine Gemeine im kalifornischem Bergland in der Nähe von San Diego

Sonstiges

Dr. Childers, Narkosearzt, wohnt in der Harbour View Lane und kannte Dr. Birkensteen

🛼 Sonstiges

Lustige Dialoge

DiStefano: "Oppladi-opplada McGee, sie hören das Geld schon im Kasten klingeln, wie?"

DiStefano: "Oppladi-opplada, die drei Freunde sind da."

DiStefano: "Na und? Dabbeldiding-dabbeldidang, der Tag ist noch lang. Wir sehen uns."

DiStefano: "Tritratrum, die Detektive gehen um."

Justus: "Straftaten sind unser Hobby!"

Phrasenschwein

Fat shaming Justus wird beleidigt

🏳️‍🌈 Queer/diversity read

Shippy moments

Peter: "Unverschämter Lümmel!" Bob: "Ein Faulpelz obendrein!" DiStefano: "Wir sehen uns noch." Peter: "Fährt während der Arbeitszeit einfach an den Strand."

Diversity, Political Correctness and Feminism

Z*geuner-John ...

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Prince Louis of Battenberg, Princess Louise of Battenberg, Prince Waldemar of Prussia, Grand Duchess Eleonore of Hesse, Princess Irene of Prussia and Grand Duchess Olga onboard the Standart, 16th July 1909

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16 November 1937

On this day 86 years ago, 6 members of the Hesse and by Rhine family were killed after their plane crashed in Belgium. The victims were the Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, Georg Donatus, his pregnant wife, the Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, Cecilie, her fetus, his mother, Dowager Grand Duchess Eleanor, and his two sons, Princes Ludwig and Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine.

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Romanov relatives: Ernst-Ludwig of Hesse with his wife and son.

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Ernst and Eleonore of Hesse at Mauve Room in Alexander Palace.

(source: V.K)

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Prince Louis of Battenberg, Princess Louise of Battenberg, Prince Waldemar of Prussia, Grand Duchess Eleonore of Hesse, Princess Irene of Prussia and Grand Duchess Olga onboard the Standart, 16th July 1909

Photo from: Olga Nikolaevna's 1908-1910 Album

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