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foreverinthepagesofhistory · 8 months

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royal women + text post memes ✨💗

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#hehehehehehehhe #thank u @duchessofvolterra for inspiring this post! 💖#queen elizabeth ii #princess anne #princess royal #princess margaret #queen marie of romania #crown princess marie of romania #princess Elisabeth #duchess of brabant #victoria princess royal #empress victoria of germany #crown princess victoria of prussia #royal women

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queenalexandraofdenmark · 7 months

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~ ROYALS AND THEIR SIGNATURES ~

Part 2/3

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Queen Olga of Greece(Olga Constantinovna)

Queen Louise of Denmark(Louise of Hesse-Kassel)

Empress Victoria of Germany(Victoria, Princess Royal)

Queen Marie of Romania(Princess Marie of Edinburgh)

Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna(Princess Elisabeth of Hesse)

Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna

#queen olga of greece #olga constantinovna #queen louise of denmark #louise of hesse-kassel #victoria princess royal #empress victoria of germany #queen marie of romania #princess marie of edinburgh #grand duchess elisabeth feodorovna #elisabeth of hesse #tsarevich alexei #alexei nikolaevich #grand duchess anastasia nikolaevna #grand duchess maria nikolaevna #grand duchess tatiana nikolaevna #grand duchess olga nikolaevna #signatures

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pokadandelion · 2 months

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Empress Victoria of Germany nee Princess of The United Kingdom

#empress victoria of germany #german imperial family #german history #prussian royal family #house of hohenzollern

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foreverinthepagesofhistoryy · 2 months

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Rare photo of Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1864-1866), son of Victoria Princess Royal and Crown Prince Fredrick of Prussia, showed on a mourning card, circa 1866 ❤️‍🩹

#such a great rare but his story is so sad…#prince Sigismund of Prussia #Sigismund of Prussia #1866 #empress victoria of germany #crown princess victoria of prussia #victoria princess royal #emperor fredrick iii #prussian royal family #1864 #rare #favs #vintage #victorian #victorian era #Prussia #prince Siggismund of Prussia

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thehessiansisters · 5 months

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Portraits of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia along with Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, wearing costumes of Tsar Alexei and Tsarina Maria Ilyinichna Miloslavskaya for the 300 years anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, Winter Palace, 1903.

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kaiserrreich · 6 months

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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

#monarchy #kaiser wilhelm ii #german empire #german monarchy #imperial germany #wilhelm ii #kaiserin augusta victoria #empress augusta victoria #royal birthdays #THIS TOOK ME AN HOUR😭#and her bday is about to end in 8 minutes #i was hella procrastinating lmao #happy birthday to Dona ig #german royalty #german royal family

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epoque-victorienne · 10 months

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#Empress Augusta Victoria #hohenzollern #prussia #germany #1890s #colorization #colorized #colorized photo #victorian

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deadlydelicious · 8 months

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ok not to be a fucking British history nerd on main but yall

Henry's royal house is 'Hanover-Stuart' - implying he comes from the House of Hanover

but the last Hanover monarch was Queen Victoria. Her children inherited their father (her cousin's) house- Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After that the British line of Hanover effectively ended

So the persistence of the name then implies that in the Red White and Royal Blue universe, Queen Victoria - who we know exists as a Queen in universe because of the food fight joke- was either succeed by a much more distantly related Hanover- implying her children either didn't exist or were somehow removed from the line of succession (hello new fictional civil war of 1901), OR it implies that Queen Victoria somehow, in 1840- changed the entire system of patralineage into a matralineage so her children would inherit the Hanover title. This would then in turn imply that the female line would have to be acknowledged as the stronger claimant to the throne meaning the heir to Victoria's throne would NOT have been Edward VII, but instead Victoria's first born- a daughter also called Victoria (hereafter referred to as V2 for clarity).

But in real life V2 went on to become the empress of Germany and the mother of the last German Kaiser - you know the one who was CREEPILY almost incestuously obsessed with his mothers hands and who ALSO LARGELY CAUSED WW1 BY MAKING 1910s GERMANY AN EXTREMELY AGGRESSIVE MILITARY POWER TO RESOLVE IS DADDY ISSUES?! But if in RW&RB V2 never became the German Empress, she never would have had Wilhelm II, and would instead have married a man of lower station and went on to continue the Hanover line in England, meaning there would be no Willhelm II - whos infamously erratic and hostile foreign policy led to the destabilization of Germany's position in Europe and was likely the main contributor to the reactionary foreign policies of other European powers that then caused the beginning of the conflict that became WW1.

SO IN RW&RB, IS THERE NO WW1?!

and that's not even getting into the Stuart of it all - a Royal line that ended IN 1714 AND WAS THE WHOLE SOURCE OF THE JACOBITE UPRISINGS. like if the Stuart line continued in the name, that implies that instead of it dying out with Anne, and the distant relatives of James II then forming the Jacobites to reclaim the throne, they somehow wove them back into the family tree?!

So were there no Jacobite Uprisings in RW&RB?

Is that why Henry is able to be styled as Prince of Wales, despite him not being the Crown Prince- because in this universe with the Stuarts still part of the royal family the Crown Prince's seat now becomes Prince of Scotland, also implying that Scotland has also now become a principality rather than a kingdom?! And how did the Stuart line stay in? Did Victoria NOT marry Albert, but instead marry a Stuart? But no, because the last Stuart was literally a fatherless priest who died 20 years before she was born, and the V&A still exists in universe, so Victoria still definitely married Albert. So did V2 get married off to some distant Stuart (most likely Francis V of Modena)? IS SCOTLAND A PRINCIPALITY NOW?! WHO CAUSED WW1?! WAS IT BECAUSE OF THE FICTIONAL BRITISH CIVIL WAR OF 1901?!

WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS AMAZON. YOUR SILLY LITTLE CHANGE TO AVOID PISSING OF PONCEY KING CHAZ IS GOING TO EAT HOLES IN MY BRAIN

pictured here: my mental state rn

#Its 4:30am and i have brain rot about this movie #and henrys last name has been BUGGING me as a plot point #i know there is no way they thought it through this much #red white and royal blue #henry fox mountchristen windsor #henry hanover stuart fox

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royal-confessions · 1 year

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“One of the things I most admire about Kaiser Frederick III is that he wasn't shy about confessing to his wife, Empress Victoria of Germany, about his depression and insecurities, at a time when a man could not show weakness. Frederick and Victoria are one of my all-time favorite royal couples, they complemented each other.” - Submitted by Anonymous

#Emperor Frederick III #Empress Frederick #victoria princess royal

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incoherentbabblings · 16 days

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Queen Victoria's Daughters

Vicky (1840-1901), married Frederick, future Emperor of Germany. She had four sons, including Wilhelm II of Germany, and four daughters, including Queen Sophia of Greece.

Alice (1843-1878), married Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by the Rhine. She had two sons and five daughters, including Empress Alexandra of Russia.

Helena (1846-1923), married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. She had four sons and two daughters.

Louise (1848-1939), married John Cambell, future Duke of Argyll. She had no children.

Beatrice (1857-1944), married Prince Henry of Battenberg. She had three sons and one daughter, including Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain.

#me in a totally normal way: LOUISE!!!! VICKY!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!#anyway #monarchy #history #Empress Victoria Princess Royal #Grand Duchess Alice of Hesse and by Rhine #Princess Helena of Schleswig-Holstein #Princess Louise Duchess of Argyll #Princess Beatrice of Battenberg #I always love pics of Helena because she genuinely always looks like she's about to deck someone #i could do one for the boys but i'm also like nahhhhhhhhhh #the girls are very good at letting you trace fashion changes due to there being 17 years between Vicky and Bea

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foreverinthepagesofhistory · 8 months

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The 8 children of Emperor Fredrick III of Germany and Victoria Princess Royal (edit)

Wilhelm, Charlotte, Henry, Sigismund, Viktoria, Waldemar, Sophia, Margaret

(made by me using iMovie)

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queenalexandraofdenmark · 2 months

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Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia with her son, Prince Waldemar of Prussia, 1868.

#victoria princess royal #empress victoria of germany #prince waldemar of prussia #hohenzollern #prussian royal family #1868 #1860s

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pokadandelion · 2 years

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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)

#empress augusta viktoria of germany #crown princess cecilie of prussia #princess victoria louise of germany #german imperial family #prussian royal family #german history #prussian history #house of hohenzollern #house of hanover

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foreverinthepagesofhistoryy · 5 months

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What did Empress Victoria of Germany (Royal Princess of England) think about her niece, Princess Marie of Edinburgh (Later Queen Marie of Romania)? I think he found Missy very beautiful and romantic, even though he didn't like his mother. Could you please share what you know with us? Thank you 🤗

Hello anon! This question is a little confusing to answer since you are talking about Victoria Princess Royal for the first half of the ask, and I think Kaiser Wilhelm for the second half of I am correct. I will just answer about both! 🥰

As far as I know, Vicky loved her niece Missy like she loved all of her many nieces! Missy was close in age to Vicky’s younger children so I’m sure that they all played around when they were at Osborne. She definitely considered Missy as a candidate for the wife of Willy and he was in love with her I’m pretty sure, but she ultimately settled for the CP of Romania. I’m not an expert on this relationship in particular, but I think my friend @kaiserrreich could answer this one better than me!

thank you for asking and sorry I couldn’t be of more use!

#answered ask #crown Princess Marie of Romania #queen marie of romania #princess Marie of Edinburgh #british royal family #victoria princess royal #empress victoria of germany #kaiser wilhelm ii

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thehessiansisters · 3 months

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

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kaiserrreich · 7 months

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Kaiser Wilhelm II appearance as a baby;

“They say all babies are alike,” wrote one German observer. “I do not think so: this one has a beautiful complexion, pink and white, and the most lovely little hand ever seen! The nose rather large; the eyes were shut, which was as well, as the light was so strong. His happy father was holding him in his arms.”

“He is growing so handsome and his large eyes have now and then a dreamy expression and then again they sparkle with fun and delight.” - Victoria, Princess Royal writing to her mother, Queen Victoria.

source: The Innocence of Kaiser Wilhelm by Christina Croft

photos: Victoria, Princess Royal, now Princess Frederich of Prussia holding the newborn Prince Wilhelm, later Kaiser Wilhelm II. Queen Victoria holding her grandson, Wilhelm and the final is a drawing of him made by her.

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