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Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
European Royalty
Female
Born
Apr 5, 1863
Hometown
Windsor, Berkshire
Died
Sep 24, 1950
Death Place
London
Other Names
Victoria Mountbat...
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, later Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1837–1892) and his first wife Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (1843–1878). Her… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1863
Birth
Born on April 5, 1863.
1866
3 Years Old
During the Prussian invasion of Hesse in June 1866, she was sent to England, along with her sister Ella, to live with her grandmother until hostilities were ended by the absorption of Hesse-Kassel and parts of Hesse-Darmstadt into Prussia.
1870
7 Years Old
During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, military hospitals were set up in the palace grounds, and she helped in the soup kitchens with her mother.
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1872
9 Years Old
In 1872, Victoria's eighteen-month-old brother, 'Frittie' was diagnosed with haemophilia.
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TEENAGE
1882
19 Years Old
In the winter of 1882, they met again at Darmstadt, and were engaged the following summer.
TWENTIES
1884
21 Years Old
After a brief postponement because of the death of the Duke of Albany, Victoria married Prince Louis on 30 April 1884 at Darmstadt.
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1887
24 Years Old
They lived in a succession of houses at Chichester, Sussex, Walton-on-Thames, and Schloss Heiligenberg, Jugenheim. When Prince Louis was serving with the Mediterranean fleet, she spent some winters in Malta. In 1887, she contracted typhoid but, after being nursed through her illness by her husband, was sufficiently recovered by June to attend Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee celebrations in London.
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FORTIES
1906
43 Years Old
In 1906, she flew in a Zeppelin airship, and even more daringly later flew in a biplane even though it was "not made to carry passengers, and we perched securely attached on a little stool holding on to the flyer's back."
FIFTIES
Up until 1914, Victoria regularly visited her relatives abroad in both Germany and Russia, including her two sisters who had married into the Russian royal family: Ella, who had married Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, and Alix, who had married the Tsar, Nicholas II of Russia.
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1921
58 Years Old
Alix's body was never recovered during Victoria's lifetime, but eventually, in January 1921, after a long and convoluted journey, the body of her sister, Ella, was interred in Jerusalem in Victoria's presence.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1930
67 Years Old
In 1930, her eldest daughter, Alice, suffered a nervous breakdown and was diagnosed as schizophrenic.
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1937
74 Years Old
In 1937, Victoria's brother, Ernest Louis, died and soon afterwards her widowed sister-in-law, nephew, granddaughter and two of her great-grandchildren all died in an air crash at Ostend.
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1939
76 Years Old
Cecilie's youngest child, Johanna, who was not on the plane, was adopted by her uncle Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine but the little girl only survived her parents and older brothers by eighteen months, dying in 1939 of meningitis.
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She fell ill with bronchitis (she had smoked since the age of sixteen) at her son Louis's home at Broadlands, Hampshire in the summer of 1950.
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