#princess helen duchess of albany

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

~ ROYALS AND THEIR SIGNATURES ~

Part 3/3

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Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark(Princess Alice of Battenberg)

Crown Princess Thyra of Hanover(Princess Thyra of Denmark)

Princess Diana, Princess of Wales

Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia

Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna

Empress Elisabeth(Sissi) of Austria

Empress Maria Feodorovna(Dagmar of Denmark)

Tsar Alexander III

Princess Helen, Duchess of Albany(Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont)

Empress Maria Alexandrovna

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

Elegant beauty! 😩🤍💐

Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Duchess of Albany by Carl Rudolph Sohn, 1882

‘Helen is tall, & “élancée”, with a fine figure, rich colour, very dark hair, dark brown, deep set eyes, & a sweet smile. She has a charming, friendly manner & is very affectionate & warm hearted.’ Queen Victoria

The Queen was pleased with Sohn’s painting which she described as ‘vy. like & vy fine. He is, after Angeli, one of the best Portrait Painters I know’. (x)

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[princesselisabethofhesse]

1901

Letter excerpts from Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna to Princess Marie of Romania

Osborne House, 16 January 1901

Yesterday we went over Osborne Cottage, it is quite changed, but certainly much improved and Aunt Beatrice is enchanted with it. A curious lot they all are, somehow I cannot fit in at all anymore. Ducky's child is mad with the sea and shells and very jolly.

Osborne House, 26 January 1901

I am writing under great difficulties, as Aunt Helen (Duchess of Albany) is sitting in my room and chattering to Ducky's little girl.

source: My Dear Mama by Diana Mandache

[hotteabuns]

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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1882 Carl Rudolph Sohn - Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Duchess of Albany

(Royal Collection Trust)

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

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Portrait of Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Duchess of Albany, 1882, by Karl Rudolf Sohn (1845-1908)

[early20thcenturynerd]

Princess Helena, Duchess of Albany, Queen Victoria’s daughter-in-law, with her two children, December 1884. On the right is Princess Alice of Albany. At the bottom is Charles Edward, Duke of Albany. Helena’s husband, Prince Leopold, wouldn’t live to meet his son, having died while she was pregnant.

“Darling, you shall know the whole truth every day - I do not mid the pain ( I have very little this moment) but the idea of you unhappy - perhaps crying - at Claremont joined to my horrible disappointment at not coming home - makes me howl. Oh! death would be preferable to this - Darling, we must not shut our eyes - I may be 3 or 4 weeks or longer without being able to move - You see I tell you all the worse (& shall do so on my honour always) - Could you come? by going by sea to Bordeaux, & then by canals to Marseilles? Oh! would it be possible? You see up comes my vile selfishness. You would have no rail then. Oh! if it were possible!!

Thanks [for] your letter, arrived only 2 hours ago - Darling the morphia [morphine] is struggling so with me - that I can not possibly write more. Good night, God bless you. Your ever devoted Leo.”

- Leopold to Helena, not long before his death

“I remained with dear Helen off & on, the whole time, till the Baby was born, a strong boy, who screamed very loudly, on coming into the world. It was carried into the next room, where Sir Wm Harcourt was waiting. When dear Helen was reassured that the Baby was alive, & a boy, she exclaimed: ‘Oh! my Leo, my Leo!’, which cut me to the heart. She bore her suffering most bravely & is so thankful for God's mercy in having spared her & the child. I went in afterwards to look at the Baby, which was in Pauline Bentheim's arms. He is very small. 

When I returned to dear Helen, she said, ‘Dear Mama, you will let the child be called Charles Edward, will you not, it was dear Leopold's greatest wish’, which I knew. Of course I approved, thought I should have preferred Leopold. But it will be amongst the names. I left her quite quiet. Wrote quantities of telegrams. Everyone rejoices that all is safely over, but oh! how heartrending it is that dear Leopold was not there.”

- Queen Victoria’s diary on the day of Charles Edward’s birth, 19th July

[historywithlaura]

VICTORIA

Crown Princess of Sweden

A brief History... of her British ancestry...

(born 1977)

pictured above are portraits of the current Swedish Royal Family: the first portrait is of the Crown Princess of Sweden, the Duchess of Östergötland and the King of Sweden; the second portrait is of the Queen Consort of Sweden; the third portrait is of the Crown Princess again; the fourth portrait is of the Duchess of Värmland; and the fifth portrait is of the Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland

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When I first saw the above solo portrait of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden I immediately remembered of Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom. Of these portraits in particular...

pictured above are portraits of the Queen of the United Kingdom, the first portrait is by Franz Xaver Winterhalter from 1842, and the second portrait is by Georg Koberwein from before 1865

But could the Crown Princess of Sweden be a descendant of the Queen of the United Kingdom? In fact, she is! Through two of the sons of Queen Victoria.

Crown Princes VICTORIA's ancestry can be tracked to Queen VICTORIA through two lines...

The FIRST LINE is through the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn...

Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom; mother of

Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn; father of

Princess Margaret of Connaught; mother of

Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten - husband of her cousin Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; parents of

Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden; father of

Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden.

The SECOND LINE is through the Duke of Albany...

Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom; mother of

Leopold, Duke of Albany; father of

Carl Eduard, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; father of

Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha - wife of her cousin Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten; parents of

Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden; father of

Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden.

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How a Princess of the House of Bernadotte descends from a Queen of the House of Hanover?

Queen Victoria married to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1840 and they had nine children. Their two youngest sons were Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Leopold, Duke of Albany.

In 1879 the Duke of Connaugh and Strathearn married Princess Luise Margareta of Prussia. And in 1882 the Duke of Albany married Princess Helene of Waldeck and Pyrmont.

The first link of Queen Victoria to the Swedish Royal Family was through her granddaughter Princess Margaret of Connaught, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, who married to Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Scania in June 1905.

By October 1905 another of Queen Victoria's grandchildren got married. Carl Eduard, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the only son of the Duke of Albany, married to Princess Viktoria Adelheid of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

Princess Margaret gave birth to her first child Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten in 1906 and in 1907 her husband became the Crown Prince of Sweden.

While in 1908, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha the first daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, was born.

These great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria, the Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and the Duke of Västerbotten, got married in 1932. And their only son Carl Gustav, Duke of Jämtland was born in 1946.

Unfortunately the Duke of Västerbotten died in 1947 before he could inherit the Swedish throne, so he was not the first descendant of Queen Victoria to become a Monarch of Sweden.

When Princess Margaret's husband inherited the throne in 1950 as Gustaf VI Adolf, King of Sweden she became the Queen Consort of Sweden.

And her grandson the Duke of Jämtland became the Crown Prince of Sweden. He is the current Monarch of Sweden, as Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, having inherited the throne in 1973.

So Crown Princess Victoria, being the eldest daughter of the current King of Sweden, is a 3x-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. And she will one day inherit the throne as Queen (Regnant) of Sweden.

New portraits of the Swedish Royal Family have been released by the Royal Court- March 29, 2022

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#OnThisDay Year 1861, Birth of Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont,(Helene Friederike Auguste; later Duchess of Albany; 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. She was born in Arolsen, capital of Waldeck principality, in Germany. She was the sister of Friedrich, last reigning Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont; Marie, the first wife of William II of Württemberg; and of Emma, Queen consort of William III of the Netherlands (and mother of Queen Wilhelmina). #RoyalBirth #PrincessHelena #WaldeckandPyrmont #DuchessofAlbany #Monarchy #EuropeanRoyalties https://www.instagram.com/p/CLYpYqmF0UP/?igshid=d0slmy798u4v

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

➳ Happy mother's day! 💐🩷

Here is my favourite picture of Princess Alice of Albany & Prince Charles Edward of Albany with their mother, Princess Helen, Duchess of Albany! 🥰

Part 6 out of 6!

[mariedemedicis]

a list of Stuart monarchs in my au

Monarchs of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Queen Elizabeth II (b. 1669 - d. 1739; reigned 1685 - 1739); consort: Maximilian William of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duke of Cumberland (1666 - 1726) [1]:

Catherine, Princess Royal (died age five)

Elizabeth, Queen of Spain

Charles

Maximilian, Duke of Clarence (died age twenty-one)

Catherine Henrietta, Tsarevna of Russia

James, Duke of Gloucester

Anne, Infanta and Duchess of Beja

Henry, Duke of Kendal

Charlotte, Duchess of Beaufort

King Charles III (b. 1689 - d. 1762; reigned 1739 - 1762); consort: Archduchess Maria Magdalena of Austria (1689 - 1743):

Maximilian

Catherine

Maria

Charles, Duke of York

Leopold, Duke of Edinburgh and Elizabeth, Queen of Denmark (twins)

Eleanor, Dauphine of France

King Maximilian I (b. 1716 - d. 1775; reigned 1762 - 1775); consort: Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia (1716 - 1801):

Maximilian, Prince of Wales (married Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Brunswick and died age thirty-five as Prince of Wales)

Charles {Duke of Cumberland at birth}

Leopold, Duke of Kent

Maria

King Charles IV (b. 1738 - d. 1793; reigned 1775 - 1793); consort: Elizabeth Antonovna of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1743 - 1782):

Charles

Eleanor

Charlotte

Charles {Duke of Cambridge at birth}

Leopold, Duke of Sussex

Maximilian, Duke of Cumberland

King Charles V (b. 1770 - d. 1841; reigned 1775 - 1841); consort: Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark (1771 - 1843):

Louisa

Leopold

Caroline

Mary

Christian, Duke of Cambridge

King Leopold I (b. 1796 - d. 1858; reigned 1841 - 1858); consort: Princess Maria Anna of Saxony (1799 - 1832):

Leopold

King Leopold II (b. 1826 - d. 1884; reigned 1858 - 1884); consort: Princess Maria Anna of Prussia (1836 - 1918):

Eleanor

Leopold

Anna

Henry {Duke of Exeter at birth}

Caroline

Frederick, Duke of Cleveland

Charles, Duke of Northumberland

Sophie

King Leopold III (b. 1846 - d. 1885; reigned 1884 - 1885); consort: None [2]

King Henry IX (b. 1849 - d. 1912; reigned 1885 - 1912); consort: Princess Thyra of Denmark (1853 - 1933):

Anne

Leopold

Elizabeth

James, Duke of Berwick

Sophia

Henry, Duke of Albermarle

King Leopold IV (b. 1876 - d. 1927; reigned 1912 - 1927); consort: Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria (1876 - 1961) [3]:

Charlotte

Queen Charlotte I (b. 1898 - d. 1955; reigned 1927 - 1955); consort: Henry, Duke of Parma and Piacenza (1873 - 1939):

Henry

James {Duke of York at birth}

Helen, Queen of Yugoslavia

King Henry X (b. 1918 - d. 2003; reigned 1955 - 1957); consort: None:

Henry

Eleanor

Patricia [4]

King James II (and VII) (b. 1923 - d. 2018; reigned 1957 - 2018); consort: Lady Caroline Howard (1927 - present):

Mary

Catherine

Jane

Louisa

Queen Elizabeth III (b. 1954; reigned 2018 - present); consort: Frederick Montagu Douglas Scott, grandson of Admiral Lord Charles Montagu Douglas Scott (b. 1954) [5]:

Charles, Prince of Wales [styled Duke of Cambridge as before his mother’s ascension]

Frederick, Duke of Clarence

Elizabeth, Duchess of Albany

Charles, Prince of Wales (b. 1987) married British Chinese Clarissa Roosevelt in 2013. Their daughter, Princess Eleanor of Cambridge was born in 2015.

Prince Frederick (b. 1990) married Jewish French-American Rachel Lachapelle in 2016.

Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Princess Elizabeth (b. 1993) and Jane Ross, a theatre actress and the princess’ childhood best friend, in 2018.

[1] = a union between England and Scotland was proclaimed in 1720, making Elizabeth the first monarch of Great Britain and Ireland. [2] = Leopold III ruled for barely a year after the death of his father and as such, as a lifelong bachelor until then, did not have the opportunity to marry nor father a son. [3] = I can’t say whom because I haven’t got that far down on my Romanov tree, which has been changed by Elizabeth II’s daughter Catherine Henrietta marrying Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich I initially had this slot for a to be named Russian Grand Duchess but I changed it to Maria Annunciata of Austria [4] = Henry X came to the throne unmarried. His married mistress had given birth to a son, Henry, and daughter, Eleanor, widely acknowledged to be Henry's. Once on the throne, he tried to persuade Parliament to allow him to marry a Spanish Fascist, which they refused to allow while also allowing him to remain on the throne. He abdicated in favor of his younger brother, being made to sign away the right of all his descendants to the British throne, married a Spanish Fascist and had a daughter, Patricia. [5] = styled Princess Mary at birth, then Mary, Princess Royal on the ascension of her father, eventually made Mary, Princess of Wales but chose Elizabeth as her regnal name.

{Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia  and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern check out; Elizabeth Antonovna of Brunswick is probably fine but Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, Princess Anna of Prussia, Princess Thyra of Denmark, Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria, and Henry, Duke of Parma all have George Hanoverian or post-Louis le Dauphin ancestry in them which means I need to figure out alternatives.]

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Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Duchess of Albany by Carl Rudolph Sohn, 1882

‘Helen is tall, & “élancée”, with a fine figure, rich colour, very dark hair, dark brown, deep set eyes, & a sweet smile. She has a charming, friendly manner & is very affectionate & warm hearted.’ Queen Victoria

The Queen was pleased with Sohn's painting which she described as 'vy. like & vy fine. He is, after Angeli, one of the best Portrait Painters I know'. (x)