#Prince Heinrich of prussia

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

The Photo vs Behind the Scenes

Photo 1: Grand Duchesses Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia with Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia, pushing maternal first cousin Prince Georg Donatus of Hesse and By Rhine in a cart, Wolfsgarten 1910

Photo 2: the same people on the left along a nanny or governess, maybe Prince Heinrich of Prussia standing on the stairs, and Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia playing with Prince Ludwig of Hesse and By Rhine, Wolfsgarten 1910

[marquisevonobst]

Anna Dorothea Therbusch, geb. Lisiewska

PRINZ HEINRICH VON PREUẞEN, UM 1773

Öl auf Leinwand, 275 x 185 cm

Finally got the permission to take a proper picture of this painting.

[loiladadiani]

The Husbands of the Four Graces

Some time ago, I read a very interesting book about Queen Victoria's Hessian Granddaughters (Victoria, Elizabeth, Irene, and Alix.) The title was "The Four Graces," and ever since I read it, that is the way I think about the daughters of Grand Duke of Louis IV of Hesse and by Rhine and the beautiful princess Alice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second daughter of Queen Victoria.

These young women were among the most marriageable princesses of their generation. They were beautiful, accomplished and Queen Victoria's granddaughters. There was no need to look for husbands for them. Among their suitors could be found future Kaisers, Tsars and Kings of England even though it was well known that any or all of the princesses could be carriers of hemophilia (inherited from their august grandmother Victoria.) Their sons might be bleeders. One of their brother's had been, therefore Princess Alice, their mother, had been a carrier.

The four men they married appear in the first photograph above; one marquess, one prince, one grand duke, and one Emperor (all of them very handsome):

👑Louis Mountbatten, first Marques of Milford Heaven (the man all the way to the left on the picture) married Princess Victoria Alberta Elisabeth Mathilde Marie of Hesse and By Rhine. Victoria and Louis had two sons and neither one of them had hemophillia.

👑The Hohenzollern Prince and brother of the German Keiser, Prince Heinrich of Prussia (the man to the right of Mountbatten in the photograph) married Princess Irene Luise Marie Anne of Hesse and By Rhine. They were first cousins since Heinrich was the son of Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, the Princess Royal, who was the older sister of Princess Alice. They had three sons. Two out of the three had hemophilia. One died in childhood of causes related to that disease.

👑 Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (the man to the right of Prince Heinrich) married Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Louise Alice of Hesse and by Rhine. Sergei and Elizabeth had no children.

👑The soon-to-be Tsar Nicholas II of Russia married Alix Viktoria Helene Luise Beatrix. Alix had one son, and he had hemophilia. (gcl)

[19centuryroyalty]

Prince Wilhelm, Prince Heinrich, Princess Charlotte, and Princess Viktoria of Prussia ❦

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

➳ Happy mother's day! 💐🩷

Here is my favourite picture of Princes Henry & Sigismund of Prussia with their mother, Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia! ☺

Part 4 out of 6!

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

Grand Duchess Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia with their cousin Prince Heinrich of Prussia (son of Princess Irene of Prussia née Hesse) at Wolfsgarten, October 1903

[kaiserrreich]

Fav sibling dynamics in Vicky and Fritz’s kids? I low key support Willy and Charlotte just because she relied on him for support a lot.

I like them too, sucks that their relationship deteriorated. I like Henry and Willy too… so I’m conflicted (😔), I’m gonna go with the latter since they did continue to communicate until Henry’s death

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

it's true! 🥺❤️‍🩹

"Princess Irene and Prince Heinrich of Prussia had the cutest royal couple photos of their time." - Submitted by Anonymous

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⚠️ DON’T START DISCOURSE ABOUT RPF IN THE NOTES!! YOU WILL BE BLOCKED IF YOU DO SO ⚠️

Do you ship it?

Reason:

“In his diaries Lehndorff talks constantly about Henry, and how great and amazing he is etc etc. He's also ultra jealous every time Henry (a known homosexual) went out with other men. Overall they seem to have gotten along well enough though.”

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

Hello! I really love your blog so much, but my life is falling apart rn 💀😭 Lemme explain everything! So you remember ur recent post, it was a parallel about Olga and Tatiana in Wolgsgarten in 1899 vs 1903? So, I was scrolling down Pinterest and found the full photo of 1903. In that photo were also Masha and Nastya. Everything seems so normal, but in that photo is also a boy!! The girl who created or saved that pin, idk what exactly she did lmao, said that was Georg Donatus? BUT HE WAS BORN IN 1906 RIGHT?? And even if that was him, the boy looked the same age as Maria and Anastasia, which shouldn't be cuz George is 7 and 5 years younger of each of them!! AND AGAIN, if it was really Georg at the age of, like, 3, Olga would be 14 at the time and it's obviously none of the children is older than eight in the photo!!! I am very confused so PLEASE PLEASE answer this 🙏🩵

here is link to the photo:

https://pin.it/65Nbhak

Hiii! Aw thank you for the compliments! Your making my day! 💕

The person who was identifying the photo was COMPLETELY wrong! That boy is OTMA’s cousin Prince Heinrich of Prussia, son of Princess Irene (Alix’s sis) and Prince Henry of Prussia. He was born in 1900 and was 3 years old here. He was right in the middle of Mashka and Nastya in age!

He sadly died one year later because he had Hemophilia.

Thank you for asking and I’m glad that you trusted me to help! 🤍✨🤟

[best-hohenzollern-ruler]

Bonus Round: Best General

Prince Heinrich of Prussia (1726–1802)

Prinz Heinrich prominently served as a general during the Seven Year's War. What contemporaries and historians alike have found so impressive about his leadership was that he made so few, if any, blunders in carrying out the war. This was a sentiment echoed by his brother, Frederick the Great, who absorbs much of the credit by osmosis. His victories and maneuvers allowed his brother to carry on a war that the prince would have preferred to be ended sooner than 1756. Outside of war, he is his own colorful character, in line with that generation of Hohenzollern men and women.

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742-1819)

What hot blooded Prussian does not know the name Blücher? It is he we have to thank for the defeat of the villain Napoleon - not once, but twice! The first great defeat at Leipzig restored Prussia to her place of due prominence among the nations of Europe. At Waterloo, he and his troops arrived as Wellington's guardian angels to defeat the Corsican devil. The main army battered, the reserves shunted away, Blücher became an immortal hero to all who opposed shrimpy French tyranny.

Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831)

Clausewitz's greatest achievement is his book Vom Krieg (On War), a tome that rewrote the rules of conflict for a post Napoleonic age. Among many of the revolutionary ideas contained with in it, a few to highlight are the "fog of war", the concept of friction and the idea of a military genius.

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800-1891)

As Chief of the Prussian General Staff, Moltke worked hand in hand with War Minister von Roon to deliver three swift victories for the Prussian state. It was his genius on display during Königgratz, during Sedan and Metz and Gravelotte. Without him, Prussia's ascendancy and Germany's unification would not have been possible.

Moltke understood that with the growing size of modern armies, generalship such as that underneath Napoleon or Blücher was unfeasible. Instead of a general leading his army as a whole, Motlke devised a corp system wherein smaller clusters of troops would move independently of each other — Theodor, get your hands off of me!

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

𝙸𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚎 & 𝙷𝚎𝚗𝚛𝚢 ❤

A better starred match between cousins was that of Henry of Prussia  and Irene of Hesse, whose portraits are given herewith. Both of these two are grandchildren of Queen Victoria. Henry, the Kaiser’s brother, is the second son of her eldest daughter, who married the later Emperor Frederick. Irene is the daughter of the late Grand Duke of Hesse, whose wife was Princess Alice of England. Their married life has been uneventful and happy, and they have one son. It has been the custom of British royalty that each second son should enter the navy l and the same rule was followed with the Emperor Frederick’s two boys. William has always identified himself with the German army, as whose leader and “war lord” he so delights to pose. Henry was trained as a sailor and has seen service in many seas. He now holds the rank of admiral, and commands one of the Kaiser’s finest war ships. Personally he is described as being, in marked contrast to his imperious brother, a man of unassuming manners and quiet and simple tastes. He is one of the numerous European royalties who have become devotees of the bicycle.

Munsey’s Magazine. (1896). United States: Frank A. Munsey Company.

[loiladadiani]

Nicholas II, Tzar of all the Russias

Grand Duke Serge Alexandrovich, the Tzar's cousin and brother-in-law through marriage to Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, nee Princess Elizabeth of Hesse and By Rhine, sister of Empress Alexandra

Prince Heinrich of Prussia, brother of the Keiser, grandson of Queen Victoria, and brother-in-law of the Tzar and Grand Duke Serge, through marriage to Princess Irene of Hesse and By Rhine, sister of Empress Alexandra and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna

The three gentlemen were also third cousins as they were great-grandsons of Paul I of Russia.

A Tzar, a Prince, and a Grand Duke (or three cousins)

I wish I knew where these pictures were taken. Nicholas, Prince Heinrich, and Grand Duke Serge are not in uniform, so it is not Russia. It could be Britain, but that I know of, the Tzar only visited the country twice, for his engagement to Alix, and many years later, when the family did not leave the royal yachts because of security reasons.

So is it Friedesborg? If anybody knows, please enlighten me. The three gentlemen look simply charming in their formal dinner attire.

[19centuryroyalty]

Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia (later Kaiser & Kaiserin) w/ Prince Wilhelm (later Kaiser Wilhelm II), Princess Charlotte and, Prince Heinrich of Prussia ❦

[postcard-from-the-past]

Prince August Wilhelm Heinrich Günther Viktor of Prussia and Princess Alexandra Viktoria Auguste Leopoldine Charlotte Amalie Wilhelmine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

German vintage postcard

[midwesternartlovertraveler]

Prince Heinrich of Prussia the younger brother of Kaiser Wilhelm II