#princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

might be such a random question but what did you think of the way Victoria brought in Victoria’s half sister in season 3? Did you have any thoughts on that? I thought it was an interesting choice! I wonder if that did happen.

Hi anon! That’s not a stupid question at all! For anyone that doesn’t know, this question is about Queen Victoria’s half sister Princess Feodora of Leiningen and how she made her “glorious” appearance in season 3 of ITV’s Victoria.

I honestly didn’t like her appearance at all. It ruined Victoria and Alberts relationship so much and I was just entirely triggered by her actions. She really was just a mischievous little scheming brat that like completely interrupted the show and like ruined everything for me. I’m pretty sure that this did indeed happened to an extent, but it definitely wasn’t portrayed accurately in the drama.

Also Fun Fact! Did you know that Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany (née Princess of Schleswig Holstein) was the Granddaughter of Princess Feodora through her daughter Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg who was also featured on the show!

Thank you for asking!

#answered ask #Queen Victoria #victoria #period drama #princess Feodora of leiningen #princess adelheid of hohenlohe-langenburg #Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany #Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig Holstein #princess feodora

[kaiserrreich]

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

[europesroyalsweddings]

✵ February 27, 1881 ✵

Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein & Prince Wilhelm of Prussia

Later Emperor and Empress of Germany

#germany #emperor of germany #empress of germany #German royal family #german royalty #Prussia #Royal Wedding

[katrinaftw44]

This is a colourization I did of Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia. Born in 13 September 1892 to German Emperor Wilhelm II and Empress Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein. She was the 7th child and only daughter. In 1913 she married Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick. They had 5 children together. During WWII her and her husband tried to encourage an agreement between the UK and Nazi Germany. After WWII the couple lived in Marienburg Castle till the death of the Ernest Augustus in 30 January 1953. In 1965 The Princess wrote an autobiography about her life. She died in 11 December 1980 and is buried in the Royal plots at Berggarten Mausoleum, Hanover. 

#royalty #princess #hanover #prussia #princess of prussia #victoria louise #princess victoria louise of prussia #history #colorized #colorization

[corallapis]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 30th April 1923

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Dined at Claridge’s with Lord and Lady Curzon before the great charity ball she organised at Lansdowne House, which made £10,000 for hospitals and starting the season. The Prince of Wales very charming, Prince George pink, with his ‘just-spanked look’, Princess Helena Victoria,¹ Princess Patricia² and her husband Ramsay and others at dinner. The never-so-crowded restaurant rose like an army and remained standing until we were seated at a table at the far end of the room. After the ladies left the Prince of Wales and Lord Curzon had an animated, friendly conversation about the House of Lords. The ‘hush’ party of the other evening was not mentioned . . . although five of us at the dinner had participated.

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1. Victoria Louise Sophia Augusta Amelia Helena (1870-1948), Princess Helena Victoria, daughter of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and Princess Helena, third daughter of Queen Victoria; she was therefore the King’s cousin.

2. Princess Victoria Patricia Helena Elizabeth (1886-1974), known as ‘Princess Pat’, daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, third son of Queen Victoria; therefore she was the King’s cousin. She married in 1919 Commander Alexander Ramsay (1881-1972), third son of the Earl of Dalhousie, aide-de-camp to her father, on which occasion she relinquished the style and title of Royal Highness and Princess and as the daughter of a duke became styled as Lady Patricia Ramsay.

#chips channon #channon diaries #1923 #1920s #george curzon #grace curzon #edward viii #prince george duke of kent #princess helena victoria #patricia ramsay #alexander ramsay #claridge's #lansdowne house #🕰️

[princessvictoriamelita]

Princess Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg in 1912.

Niece of German Empress Augusta Victoria.

#schleswig-holstein #schleswig-holstein-sonderburg-glücksburg #1912 #1910s #german royal #german royalty #princess adelheid of schleswig-holstein-sonderburg-glücksburg

[the6thofmay]

The old trend was for the British royals to marry foreign princesses. Here were some possible matches for Edward VIII as cited by Ted Powell.

The Tsar’s 4 daughters. Sadly the entire family were later executed by the Bolsheviks.

Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, the only daughter and the last child of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein.

BTW, the German Emperor was called the kaiser. I immediately think about kaiser rolls! I love kaiser rolls. It translates to emperor rolls.

Princess Caroline Matilda of Schleswig-Holstein. Edward’s cousin. Ted Powell believes Edward may have married her if WWI never happened.

Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria was a favorite to marry Edward and one of the most interesting prospects in my opinion. She actually never ended up getting married, but she is a survivor. She was arrested and tortured by communists in 1944 and later allowed to flee the country. She eventually settled in Germany where she spent the rest of her life.

Edward’s cousins Princesses Elizabeth and Marie of Romania.

Finally, the Italian Princess Iolanda of Savoy.

#Princess #Princesses #History #Edward VIII #King Edward VIII

[drosera-nepenthes]

The Marriage of Princess Helena

The marriage of her Royal highness Princess Helena to Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein took place on Thursday, in the presence of her Majesty the Queen, their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, the members of the English Royal family and a select congregation of the aristocracy, in the private chapel of Windsor Castle.

Princess Helena Augusta Victoria, fifth child of Queen Victoria and of the lamented Prince Consort, was born on the 25th of May, 1846, and is therefore in her twenty-first year. It has been mentioned in Parliament by one of her Majesty's Ministers, and it may therefore, without impropriety, be recorded here, that the widowed Queen has experienced, in the tender and dutiful attentions of this daughter, one of the greatest sources of consolation during her late bereavement.

Prince Frederick Christian Charles Augustus is a younger son of the late Duke Christian Charles Frederick Augustus of Schleswig-Holstein (who ceded his duchy to Denmark) and brother to Prince Frederick Christian Augustus the eldest son, whose claims to the sovereignty of the duchy, as against, the King of Denmark, were made the pretext, for the late war on the part of the German Powers. Prince Christian, as the younger son is usually called, was born on the 22nd of January, 1831, his mother being Louisa Sophia, Countess Danneskiold-Samsøe, a Danish lady married, in 1828, to the late Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and its lineage is collateral with that of the reigning families of Denmark and Russia. Prince Christian has held commission in the Prussian army. By the express offer of her Majesty, he will henceforth be addressed with the style of Royal Highness.

The small private chapel of Windsor Castle is situated almost in the centre of the Queen's private apartments. Its limited dimensions were, under the direction of the Lord Chamberlain and the Hon. Spencer Ponsonby, made the most of. The seats of pews in the centre were removed, chairs placed on each side, and temporary gallery erected for the commendation of the invited guests. A rich Wilton carpet covered the aisle leading up to the altar.

Soon after eleven o'clock the King and Queen of the Belgians, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Prince and Princess Leiningen, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Arthur, and other relatives of the Royal family, were, upon leaving their different apartments conducted to the state drawing-room, which is also called the Zuccarelli Room. From its containing a number of paintings by that artist. The ceiling oof this magnificent room is a richly embellished stucco. In the centre of the cove are elaborately emblazoned shields containing the arms of England and Saxe-Meiningen, the whole being surmounted by the Royal crown, which with other shields scrolls, and wreaths of flowers, complete the decoration. The Prince and Princess of Wales soon afterwards joined this distinguished assemblage where they remained till summoned to the chapel. In the Red Drawingroom, or Rubens' Room, in which the body of George IV lay in state , was assembled the Diplomatic Body; while the general visitors assembled in what is known as the White Drawing-room. Her Majesty's private band played in the Red Drawing-room. About twelve o'clock the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London and Winchester, and the Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor arrived.

In the course of the ceremony several pieces of music were performed by the choir of St. George's Chapel, led by Dr. Elvey, and including Messrs. Adams, Dyson, Baraby, Tolley, Bridgewater, Knowles, Mitchell, Hurst, Marriott, Bransome, and Briggs, with the choir of the private chapel.

The following is a list of the bridesmaids whore were in attendance on the Princess: – Lady Caroline Gordon Lennox, Lady Margaret Scott, Lady Albertha Hamilton, Lady Laura Phipps, Lady Alexandrina Murray, Lady Mary Fitzwilliam, Lady Ernestine Edgecombe, and Lady Muriel Campbell. These ladies are the daughters of Dukes, Marquises, or Earls.

Her Majesty – who was dressed in black, relieved with silver trimmings, and who wore a coronet – gave the Princess away. After the ceremony the Princess, who appeared nearly moved to tears, turned round and affectionately embraced her mother. The ceremony terminated exactly at a quarter past one.

The Illustrated London News July 7, 1866

#Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein #Princess Helena #1860s #newspaper article #royal weddings

[royalmotherhood]

Duchess Adelheid of Schleswig-Holstein, née Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, with her children: Augusta Victoria (future German Empress), Ernst Gunther, Karoline Mathilde and Luise Sophie.

#Duchess Adelheid of Schleswig-Holstein #Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg #Dona #empress augusta victoria of germany #Hohenzollern #Royalty #History #Princess #Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein #German Empress

[pretty-little-fools]

#Prince Wilhelm of Prussia #Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg #Royalty #1880's #victorian #history #german #1880

[historicwomendaily]

the german empresses

requested by anonymous

#weloveperioddrama #perioddramaedit #history #historyedit #german history #19th Century #augusta of saxe weinar eisenach #augusta of saxe weinar #victoria princess royal #20th Century #Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein #our edits #by julia

[widvile-blog]

Helena of the United Kingdom, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (25 May 1846 - 9 June 1923)

#helena of the united kingdom #helena augusta victoria #princess christian of schleswig-holstein #daughter of prince albert of saxe-coburg and gotha and queen victoria #wife of prince christian of schleswig-holstein #history #women in history #19th century #20th century #vintage #antique

[europesroyalsweddings]

✵ February 27, 1881 ✵

Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein & Prince Wilhelm of Prussia

Later Emperor and Empress of Germany

#princess augusta victoria #princess augusta victoria of schleswig-holstein #prince wilhelm #prince wilhelm of prussia #emperor of germany #empress of germany #wedding dress #royal wedding dress #lace wedding dress #orange blossom #wedding dress train #royal wedding train #royal wedding dress train #wedding veil #royal wedding veil #germany #german royalty #German royal family #German Royal Wedding #house of schleswig-holstein #House of Hohenzollern #Prussia #Prussian royal family #prussian royal wedding #Royal Wedding

[the-empress-7]

Oh just watch the Sussexes use Philippa or Alice or Victoria for the Sussex rugrat, just to spite Bea.

I think Bea will use Victoria for it’s a name connected to various family members;

Queen Victoria; Alexandrina Victoria

Queen Mary; Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes

Princess Alice of Battenberg & of Greece and Denmark; Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Victoria Mountbatten the Marchioness of Milford Haven; Victoria Alberta Elizabeth Mathilde Marie

Mary, Princess Royal & Countess of Harewood; Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary

Princess Eugenie; Eugenie Victoria Helena

Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom; Victoria Alexandra Olga Mary

Ingrid of Sweden, Queen of Denmark; Ingrid Victoria Sofia Louise Margareta

Victoria, Princess Royal and German Empress; Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa

Princess Viktoria of Prussia and of Schaumburg-Lippe; Friederike Amalia Wilhelmine Viktoria

Princess Patricia of Connaught, Lady Patricia Ramsay; Victoria Patricia Helena Elizabeth

Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia and of Hanover; Victoria Louise Adelaide Matilda Charlotte

Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain; Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld; Marie Luise Viktoria

Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein; Victoria Louise Sophia Augusta Amelia Helena

Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Coburg & Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna of Russia

Princess Margaret of Connaught, Crown Princess of Sweden; Margaret Victoria Charlotte Augusta Norah

Wow, you really did your research!

[corallapis]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 6th June 1923

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Wednesday 6th June

A brilliant ball at Derby House. The Queen did not come and we were told in time not to wear our knee breeches. Princess Christian¹ is dying or dead and there are rumours that she is being kept on ice until after the Derby. Everyone is sorry a Derby horse² did not win today instead of Papyrus.³ We wonder what effect court mourning will have on the season? Any?

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1. Princess Helena Augusta Victoria (1846-1923), fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She was the King’s aunt and widow of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, whom she had married in 1866; she died three days later.

2. That is, one owned by Lord Derby.

3. The 100/15 winner. Neither the King nor the Queen attended the race because of Princess Christian’s condition.

#chips channon #channon diaries #1923 #1920s #princess helena #🕰️

[princessvictoriamelita]

Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, 1870s.

#german empress augusta victoria #princess augusta victoria of schleswig-holstein-sonderburg-augustenburg #princess augusta victoria of schleswig-holstein #schleswig-holstein #schleswig-holstein-sonderburg-augustenburg #german royalty #german royal #1870s