#princess victoria of the united kingdom

[everythingroyalty]

First cousins Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (1868-1935) and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (1872-1918) having a laugh together at a family photo session at Bernstorff Palace in Denmark in 1899 ✨

[royal-confessions]

“I think the death of Princess Victoria of Wales had a profound emotional impact on her brother, King George V of the United Kingdom, possibly hastening his own demise. The difference between the dates of their deaths was only 48 days. George used to refer to Victoria as "no-one has ever had a sister like her". The loss of his beloved sister devastated the king's already weakened heart.” - Text & Image Submitted by cenacevedo15

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

Princesses Louise, Victoria, and Maud of Wales, Late 1870s - Early 1880s

[worldoftheromanovs]

Photograph of NAOTMAA and their British relatives at Barton Manor in 1909

Standing at the back, from left to right, are: Prince Edward of Wales (later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor), Queen Alexandra, Princess Mary of Wales, Princess Victoria, and the Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana.

Sitting, from left to right, are: the Princess of Wales (later Queen Mary), Tsar Nicholas II, Tsesarevich Alexei, King Edward VII, Grand Duchess Anastasia, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, and the Prince of Wales (later King George V), sharing a chair with the Grand Duchess Maria.

[thehessiansisters]

Painting of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia by François Flameng, 1894.

[adini-nikolaevna]

“Just before the early hours of the morning of the 21st, I felt very uncomfortable and with difficulty aroused Albert… Tried to get to sleep again, but by 4, I got very bad & both Doctors arrived. My beloved Albert was so dear and kind. Locock [the chief obstetrician] said the baby was on the way & everything was all right. We both expressed joy that the event was at hand & I did not feel at all nervous.

Alas! A girl and not a boy as we had so hoped & wished for. We were, I’m afraid, sadly disappointed, but yet our hearts were full of gratitude, for God having brought me safely through my ordeal, & having such a strong healthy child. Dearest Albert hardly left me at all, & was the greatest comfort.”

- Queen Victoria on the birth of her first child, Victoria, Princess Royal.

[empress-alexandra]

Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, 1875.

[archduchessofnowhere]

Queen Victoria to her daughter Crown Princess Victoria of Germany, on the engagement of Princess Stephanie of Belgium to Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria:

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MARCH 12, 1880 On Tuesday 9th the Empress [Elisabeth] of Austria came and stopped for luncheon and was most amiable. She is a little aged, but still very handsome and graceful and distinguished looking and the figure beautiful, only her dress was so tight she could hardly move or sit down. Poor little Stephanie’s engagement took everyone by surprise including the Empress and Leopold of B [King of the Belgians, Stephanie's father]. The poor thing has been completely shut up—never seen anyone—never been to a dance or a play etc. and suddenly the C. Prince of Austria is brought, speaks to her and she is engaged and brought out!! It is a most wonderful arrangement but you like children’s engagements and so you won’t be so astonished.

Crown Princess Victoria's reply:

PEGLI, MARCH 15, 1880 (...) I decidedly think with you that dear little Stephanie’s marriage is very sudden, and taking such a great leap all of a sudden, is of course very trying to a young girl’s mental and moral development! Though I was engaged at 14—and there are many other examples of the same kind, yet in principle I am strongly against it and think it far better to be a little older, but what I always pleaded is that there are cases where peculiar circumstances make it advisable and desirable—and unavoidable. I have heard no details yet. I suppose the Crown Prince (who has been rather wild and flighty) was urged to marry and chose Stephanie young as she was. It will be a great trial to the poor dear child to be grown up on such short notice and engaged to a young man she does not know, and had never seen.

Queen Victoria's reply:

WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH 22, 1880 (...) Neither Leopold B. or the Emperor of Austria knew anything of the Archduke Rudolf’s plans. It seems Stephanie was entirely his own choice. It is a great thing that the Emperor and Empress have at length allowed the marriage or rather the engagement to be announced, and I hope Willie [Prince Wilhelm, Crown Princess Victoria's son] will travel and see the world a little before he marries, which I trust will be next year. Those very long engagements are very trying and not very good and poor Victoria [Auguste Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Wilhelm's fiancée] will be 22 in October.

Fulford, Roger [ed.] (1981). Beloved mama: Private correspondence of Queen Victoria and the German Crown Princess, 1878-1885

Pictured: Princess Stephanie and Crown Prince Rudolf's engagement photograph, by Géruzet Frères, 1880 (left); Crown Princess Victoria of Germany, by Alexander Bassano, 1879 (right). Via Wikimedia Commons and the Royal Collection Trust.

[taniatas]

[behindthecrowns]

Devonshire House Ball, 1897

The Devonshire House Ball or the Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball was an elaborate fancy dress ball, hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, held on 2 July 1897 at Devonshire House in Piccadilly to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

The Prince and the Princess of Wales (Edward VII and Alexandra)

The Duke and the Duchess of York (George V and Mary)

Princess Mary Adelaide (the mother of Mary)

The Countess of Warwick dressed as Marie Antoinette

The Duchess of Devonshire

Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia and his wife

The Viscount D'Abernon

Daisy, Princess of Pless dressed as Cleopatra

Lady Randolph Spencer-Churchill in a byzantine dress

[tiny-librarian]

A watercolour showing two studies of Queen Victoria's eldest child, the Princess Frederick. In the study to the left she is shown from behind and in the study to the right she is shown facing left in profile. She is wearing a yellow dress trimmed with Brussels Lace and a red sash, and a diadem of diamonds and a pearl necklace. Inscribed lower left: At a Concert. June 1 - 1859. Inscribed below pasted down sheet: Vicky. -

The Princess Frederick visited her parents from 21 May to 2 June 1859. It was the first time she had been back to England since her wedding in January 1858. On the last night of her stay she attended a concert in the Ball Room at Buckingham Palace. Queen Victoria described the night in her journal entry for that day and describes her daughter as looking "lovely & regal".

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[postcard-from-the-past]

Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena of Battenberg, later Queen consort of Spain with her mother, Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore of United Kingdom, Princess Henry of Battenberg

German vintage postcard

[royal-confessions]

“I think it's wrong to consider Princess Victoria of Wales' life as sad simply because she never married. It is possible that the Princess enjoyed a lighter and freer life than her sisters and cousins who married, since marriage imposed many responsibilities on women at that time.” - Text & Image Submitted by cenacevedo15

[19centuryroyalty]

Queen Victoria, Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia, Princess Alice, and Prince Alfred mourning the death of their beloved husband & father. ❦

[worldoftheromanovs]

Grand Duchess Maria, Princess Victoria talking to Empress Alexandra, Olga Alexandrovna, Alexei Nikolaevich and Grand Duchesses Olga, Anastasia, and Tatiana. on board the Imperial Yacht Standart, at Reval, Russia (now Tallinn, Estonia) June 1908

[thehessiansisters]

Portraits of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna wearing uniform of the chief of the 5th Hussar Alexandria regiment, Tsarkoye Selo, 1911.