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Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine
Daughter of Ludwig Iv + Grand Duke of Hesse and By Rhine and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom + Wife of Prince Albert Wilhelm Heinrich of Prussia.
Female
Born
Jul 11, 1866
Hometown
Darmstadt
Died
Nov 11, 1953
Death Place
West Germany
Other Names
Princess Heinrich...
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (11 July 1866 %E2%80%93 11 November 1953) was the third child and third daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine. Her maternal grandparents were Queen Victoria… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1866
Birth
Born on July 11, 1866.
1873
6 Years Old
The family was devastated in 1873 when Irene's haemophiliac younger brother Friedrich, nicknamed "Frittie," fell through an open window, struck his head on the balustrade and died hours later of a brain hemorrhage.
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TEENAGE
1878
11 Years Old
In the autumn of 1878 Irene, her siblings (except for Elizabeth) and her father became ill with diphtheria.
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1885
18 Years Old
With her sister Alix, Irene was a bridesmaid at the 1885 wedding of Queen Victoria’s youngest daughter Princess Beatrice to Prince Henry of Battenberg.
TWENTIES
1888
21 Years Old
On 24 May 1888, Irene married Prince Albert Wilhelm Heinrich of Prussia, the third child and second son of German Emperor Friedrich III and German Empress Victoria.
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1889
22 Years Old
However, Empress Friedrich was shocked because Irene did not wear a shawl or scarf to disguise her pregnancy when she was pregnant with her first son, the haemophiliac Prince Waldemar, in 1889.
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1891
24 Years Old
Irene, raised to believe in a proper Victorian code of behaviour, was easily shocked by what she saw as immorality. When her sister Elizabeth left the German Lutheran religion they had been raised in and converted to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1891, Irene was deeply upset.
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FORTIES
1907
41 Years Old
In 1907, Irene helped arrange what later turned out to be a disastrous marriage between Elizabeth's ward, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia to Prince Vilhelm, Duke of Södermanland.
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1912
46 Years Old
In 1912, Irene was a source of support to her sister Alix when Alexei nearly died of complications of haemophilia at the Imperial Family's hunting lodge in Poland.
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1913
47 Years Old
When Anna Anderson surfaced in Berlin in the early 1920s, claiming to be the surviving Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, Irene visited the woman, but decided that Anderson could not be the niece she had last seen in 1913.
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FIFTIES
1920
54 Years Old
Irene later adopted Sigismund's daughter, Barbara, born in 1920, as her heir after Sigismund left Germany to live in Costa Rica during the 1930s.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1945
79 Years Old
Irene grieved terribly when her haemophiliac eldest son, Waldemar, became ill in 1945 and died due to the lack of blood for a transfusion.
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