#helena waldeck-pyrmont

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This dress has been stuck in my head for the last week. I can’t stop looking at it. I want this molded on a sculpture and displayed in my 500 sq ft apartment. She wears it so elegantly, it was made for her

“Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont (Helen Frederica Augusta; 17 February 1861 – 1 September 1922), later Duchess of Albany, was a member of the British royal family by marriage. She was the fifth daughter and child of George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and his first wife, Princess Helena of Nassau.”

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Princess Helena of Waldeck Pyrmont on her wedding day to Leopold of Albany, youngest son of Queen Victoria. Photo colored by me.

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Royal Wedding on 10 February 1904 at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

Prince Alexander of Teck (29) and Princess Alice of Albany (20).

The bride was the eldest born child of Queen Victoria's youngest son the late Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany by his German wife Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont.

The bridegroom was the youngest son of Francis, Duke of Teck by his wife Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge. His elder sister was the wife of Princess Alice's first cousin King George V.

The beautiful bride in her wedding dress

Their bridesmaids

The bride and bridegroom with the bridesmaids.

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Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (17 February 1861 – 1 September 1922), who became a member of the British royal family by marriage, was the fifth daughter and child of George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont and his first wife, Princess Helena of Nassau.

[europesroyalsweddings]

✵ April 27, 1882 ✵

Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont & Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany

[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthdays for today, February 17th:

Wu Zetian, Empress Regnant of China, 624

Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Duchess of Albany, 1861

Marie Astrid of Luxembourg, Archduchess of Austria, 1954

Al-Muhtadee Billah, Crown Prince of Brunei, 1974

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Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont photographed on her wedding day.

[heavyarethecrowns]

1882 wedding photo of Princess Helena of Waldeck-Pyrmont, who became the wife of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (the youngest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert).

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(via Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont - The young widow)

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Princess Helena, Duchess of Albany as Mary Beaton. 1890.

[internationalroyals]

Victoria I (Queen of UK of Great Britain and Ireland) (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901)

Daughter of Prince Edward (Duke of Kent and Strathearn) and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

Wife of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Mother of Victoria (Princess Royal), Edward VII, Princess Alice, Prince Alfed (Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha), Princess Louise, Princess Helena, Prince Arthur (Duke of Connaught and Strathearn), Prince Leopold (Duke of Albany), and Princess Beatrice.

Grandmother of Wilhelmina II (King of Germany and Prussia), Princess Charlotte of Prussia, Prince Henry of Prussia, Prince Sigismund of Prussia, Princess Viktoria of Prussia, Prince Waldemar of Prussia, Princess Sophia of Prussia, Princess Margaret of Prussia, Prince Albert Victor (Duke of Clarence and Avondale), George V, Louise (Princess Royal), Princess Victoria, Princess Maud of Wales, Prince Alexander John of Wales, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Elizabeth Feodorovna (Grand Duchess of Russia), Princess Henry of Prussia, Ernest Louis (Grand Duke of Hesse), Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine), Alexandra Feodorovna (Empress of Russia), Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, Alfred (Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha), Marie of Romania, Victoria Feodorovna (Grand Duchess of Russia) Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Princess Consort of Hohenlohe-Langenburg), Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Duchess of Galliera), Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, Albert (Duke of Schleswig-Holstein), Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (Princess Aribert of Anhalt), Prince Harald, Princess Margaret of Connaught (Crown Princess of Sweden), Prince Arthur of Connaught, Princess Patricia of Connaught (Lady Patricia Ramsay), Princess Alice (Countess of Athlone), Charles Edward (Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha), Alexander Mountbatten (1st Marquess of Carisbrooke), Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (Queen of Spain), Lord Leopold Mountbatten, and Prince Maurice of Battenberg

Mother-in-law of Fredrick III (Emperor of Germany), Princess Alexandra of Denmark, Louis IV (Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine), Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, John Campbell (9th Duke of Argyll), Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Prince Henry of Battenberg.

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Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his wife Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, the eldest daughter of Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and his wife Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. He was a male-line grandson of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, he was also until 1919 a Prince of the United Kingdom and from birth held the British titles of Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence and Baron Arklow.  His father was Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, the eighth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. His mother was Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont, the fourth daughter of George Victor of Waldeck and Pyrmont and of his first wife Princess Helena of Nassau.

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Waldeck and Pyrmont Princely Family, early 1910s.

Prince Friedrich, Prince Maximilian, Princess Helena, Princess Consort Bathildis, Prince Georg and Hereditary Prince Josias.

Source: Czech archives.

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Princess Helena of Nassau, Princes of Waldeck and Pyrmont

[europesroyalsweddings]

✵ April 27, 1882 ✵

Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont & Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany

[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthdays for today, February 17th:

Wu Zetian, Empress of China, 624

Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Duchess of Albany, 1861

Marie Astrid, Archduchess of Austria, 1954

Al-Muhtadee Billah, Crown Prince of Brunei, 1974