#Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany

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might be such a random question but what did you think of the way Victoria brought in Victoria’s half sister in season 3? Did you have any thoughts on that? I thought it was an interesting choice! I wonder if that did happen.

Hi anon! That’s not a stupid question at all! For anyone that doesn’t know, this question is about Queen Victoria’s half sister Princess Feodora of Leiningen and how she made her “glorious” appearance in season 3 of ITV’s Victoria.

I honestly didn’t like her appearance at all. It ruined Victoria and Alberts relationship so much and I was just entirely triggered by her actions. She really was just a mischievous little scheming brat that like completely interrupted the show and like ruined everything for me. I’m pretty sure that this did indeed happened to an extent, but it definitely wasn’t portrayed accurately in the drama.

Also Fun Fact! Did you know that Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany (née Princess of Schleswig Holstein) was the Granddaughter of Princess Feodora through her daughter Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg who was also featured on the show!

Thank you for asking!

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October 22 1858: The Birth of Kaiserin Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein

Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein was the eldest daughter of Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein and Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Lagenburg. Tragedy struck only a week after her birth when her elder brother died from illness. In 1860, her younger sister, Caroline Mathilda, was born. Who was regarded as prettier and a brighter personality than the chubby, serious, submissive Augusta Victoria. Soon Augusta’s mother would give birth to another boy, Gerhard, who died in infancy. Their next male heir and fifth child, Ernst Gunther, was a perfectly healthy baby boy. Augusta would have two other sisters, Louise Sophie in April 1866 and Feodora Adelaide in July 1874.

In her family, she was known affectionately as “Dona.” Augusta’s obedient nature was noted on early in her youth, even by her future mother-in-law Crown Princess Frederick. ‘It is strange how good some children are – and how little trouble they give,’ she wrote to her mother, Queen Victoria, when Augusta Victoria was nine years old.  ‘Ada’s children are patterns of obedience, gentleness – the best of dispositions’. (1)

The thought of a match between Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein and Prince Wilhelm of Prussia was contemplated ever since they were children, as noted by the prince (future Kaiser, ex-Kaiser) later in the future. But was never taken seriously until after the prince was rejected by Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine. Perhaps, Wilhelm was seeking for a rebound in Dona and it was a success. As the couple married on the 27th of February 1881. The marriage has been regarded to be happy but not without struggle. As Wilhelm quickly grew bored at his new wife’s longing for a simple domestic lifestyle, having multiple affairs throughout the years. And in the beginning only saw Dona as a broodmare. It was only after an ear infection gone bad, where Augusta stayed by Wilhelm’s side throughout the duration of it did he start to see her in an adjusted light, but continued to be unfaithful to her.

She bore him seven children:

Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Crown Prince of Prussia (1882-1951)

Prince Eitel Friedrich (1883-1942)

Prince Adalbert (1884-1948)

Prince August Wilhelm (1887-1949)

Prince Oskar (1888-1958)

Prince Joachim (1890-1920)

Princess Viktoria Louise of Prussia (1892-1980)

Her days as Empress, she was regarded by the court as a prudish, a stickler for rules who punished anyone for the simplest gesture she deemed to be “immoral.” She was deemed by many as unremarkable and plain with a gaudy and tacky sense of fashion. With Nicholas II remarking to his mother, the Dowager Empress. That she ‘did her best to be pleasant but looked awful in sumptuous gowns completely lacking in taste; in particular the hats she wore in the evening were frightful.’

Though as overbearing and a nuisance as she was in public life and a part of her private life, by some family members, such as Empress Frederick (with whom she had a very heated feud with and who Augusta enjoyed snubbing frequently) who wrote to her daughter, Sophie, she was characterized as: ‘very grand and stiff and cold and condescending at first, but became much nicer afterwards.  Perhaps it was also partly shyness.’ and by her younger sister, Louise Sophie that when she was ‘not bowing to the will of her autocratic husband she was easy and indulgent’. “Her cousin Alice of Albany, who was sometimes mildly critical of her older relations, found her ‘most affable and kind’.”(1)

She was her husband’s biggest supporter throughout everything (for better and for worse) and was crushed when she was stripped of her titles as German Empress and Queen of Prussia after the war. Her health, which was already declining ever since the 1890s (causing her to miscarry twice) went down a rapid decline in the 1920s. And it had worsened when she had heard of the news of the death of her youngest son, Prince Joachim. She passed away on the 11th April 1921, in spite of her personal flaws, she was a beloved Empress by the German people and her popularity outshined her husband’s. Thousands lined up to see her off, where she would be buried at the Temple of Antiquities in the gardens near the New Palais in Postdam. Her husband, the ex Kaiser Wilhelm II was forbidden to cross into Germany to see his wife off for the final time.

Her room in Huis Doorn was soon turned into a shrine dedicated to the late Empress. With Wilhelm ordering for the room to regularly be cleaned with flowers and a cross draped over the bed. “Once a week, for the rest of his twenty years, he would retire there on his own, to go and mourn her memory.“ (1)

Wilhelm adhered to his late wife’s wishes for him to marry someone else when she was gone. When only a year later he would marry Princess Hermine of Reuss. He passed away in June of 1941, at age 82, 20 years after her passing.

Source : The Last German Empress

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Coronation of the King of Prussia, 18 October 1861: The Crown Princess Doing Homage

Artist: George Housman Thomas (British, 1824-68)

Date: Exhibited 1863

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, United Kingdom

Depicted People:

Empress Friedrich, German Empress and Queen of Prussia

Princess Marie of Prussia

William I, Emperor of Germany & King of Prussia

Empress Augusta of Germany

Frederick III, German Emperor

Description

The Coronation of the King and Queen of Prussia took place in the chapel of the Schloss at Königsberg, the first coronation in Prussia for 160 years. The Times newspaper described the occasion, noting how canopies had been placed on two columns facing the altar above the platforms on which the King and Queen stood. After the ceremony of the crowning they received homage. The Crown Prince approached his mother and the Crown Princess, Queen Victoria’s eldest daughter who had married the Crown Prince in 1858, knelt before the King – the moment depicted in this painting. The British Ambassador reported to Queen Victoria ‘the exquisite grace and the intense emotion with which Her Royal Highness gave effect to her feelings on the occasion’. The Crown Princess wrote to her mother describing the ceremony: ‘the Chapel is in itself lovely – with a gt deal of gold about it and all hung with red velvet and gold – the carpet, altar, thrones and canopies the same – the Knights of the black eagle with red velvet cloaks – the Queen’s 4 young ladies all alike in white & gold’. The artist experienced the usual difficulties of getting sittings for the portraits of those present at the Coronation and getting access to the royal robes and regalia, but before the ceremony he had made a finished drawing of the Chapel from a ‘nice little platform which had been erected for him’ according to his wife, who accompanied him to Germany. 2.5cm at the bottom edge is unpainted and inscribed with numbers, as if for a key to some of the figures. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1863.

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Queen Lovisa of Denmark, née Princess Lovisa of Sweden.

Princess Henry of Prussia, née Princess Irene of Hesse.

Queen Olga of Greece, née Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna.

Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden, née Princess Margaret of Connaught.

Empress Augusta Viktoria of Germany, née Princess Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein.

Queen Mary 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚄����𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝙺𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚍𝚘𝚖, née Princess Victoria Mary of Teck.

Queen Maud of Norway, née Princess Maud of Wales.

Empress Elisabeth of Austria, née Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria.

Queen Elena of Italy, née Princess Elena of Montenegro.

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✵ February 27, 1881 ✵

Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein & Prince Wilhelm of Prussia

Later Emperor and Empress of Germany

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A perfect curtsey before Empress Victoria Augusta of Germany, Queen of Prussia 

 The Dowager Empress of Russia, Maria Feodorovna, hated her – she complained to her son, Nicholas II, about Donna being named a colonel of the Grodno regiment, previously chiefed by the own Empress's late fiancée, Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich, in the 1850s. Nicholas II noted that the German Kaiserin wore 'impossible hats' and didn't have her own views

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Sarasate's jewelries

Sara: "I have much but most of them I don't use. Violinists don't use them!"

a) Sapphire ring. Empress Augusta of Germany. 1877. Pamplona City Council.

b) Digmantes ring. Queen Victoria of England. Pamplona City Council.

a) Diamond and Esmolte's rings. Brazilian Emperor Pedro L. Pamplona City Council.

b) A ring with garnet and diamonds. Albert I, King of Saxony. Pamplona City Council.

a) Ring with emerald and diamonds. Queen Maria Christina of Spain. G. Veralba and Flores. Madrid. Pamplona City Council.

b) Diamond button. King Alfonso XI of Spain. Francisco Mazzo. Madrid. Pamplona City Council.

a) Button of pearls and diamonds. Queen Victoria of England. 1896. Pamplona City Council.

b) Button of hard diamond and enamel, with Cologne pattern. Empress Augusta of Germany. 1886. Pamplona City Council.

a) Button and diamond cufflinks. Prince of Wales. Pamplona City Council.

b) Agate and silver buttons. Pamplona City Council.

a) Diamond tie pin. Queen Victoria of England. Collingwood&C. London. Pamplona City Council.

b) Diamond tie. Anso Reina's Home. Pamplona's mother.

a) A tie pin with black pearls and diamonds. Queen Maria Christina of Spain. Pamplona City Council.

b) Sapphire and diamond Tie clip. Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild. Friedrich Hartone. Vienna. Pamplona City Council.

a) Watch. A. Ladet. Flower shop. Pamplona City Council.

b) Watch. L. Leroy and Cie. Paris. Pamplona City Council.

a) Diamond watch. Spanish people in Mexico. 1890. Dina and Rottak. Mexico. Pamplona City Council.

b) A watch with enamel and diamonds. Napoleon II. 1861. Czapek&Cie. Ginebra. Pamplona City Council.

Damascus watch. Toledo Committee on Art Monuments. 1881 Alvarez. Toledo. Pamplona City Council.

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This is a colourization I did of Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia. Born in 13 September 1892 to German Emperor Wilhelm II and Empress Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein. She was the 7th child and only daughter. In 1913 she married Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick. They had 5 children together. During WWII her and her husband tried to encourage an agreement between the UK and Nazi Germany. After WWII the couple lived in Marienburg Castle till the death of the Ernest Augustus in 30 January 1953. In 1965 The Princess wrote an autobiography about her life. She died in 11 December 1980 and is buried in the Royal plots at Berggarten Mausoleum, Hanover. 

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Augusta Victoria, the last German Empress, with her daughter, Princess Victoria Louise, by Kaulbach.

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Duchess Adelheid of Schleswig-Holstein, née Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, with her children: Augusta Victoria (future German Empress), Ernst Gunther, Karoline Mathilde and Luise Sophie.

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German Empress Augusta Victoria (Center) with her daughter Victoria Louise of Prussia, Duchess of Brunswick (right) and her daughter-in-law, Crown Princess Cecilie of Prussia (left)

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German Imperial Family in 1896.

Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Empress Augusta Victoria, Crown Prince Wilhelm, Prince Eitel Friedrich, Prince Adalbert, Prince August Wilhelm, Prince Oskar, Prince Joachim and Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia.

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Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany