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Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia (German: Viktoria Luise Adelheid Mathilde Charlotte; 13 September 1892 – 11 December 1980) was the only daughter and the last child of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein.
Viktoria Luise Adelheid Mathilde Charlotte Hohenzollern von Preußen was born 13 September 1892 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany to Wilhelm II., Deutscher Kaiser (1859-1941) and Auguste Viktoria von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1858-1921) and died 11 December 1980 Hanover, Lower...
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- Princess Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise. left: Queen Victoria with her eldest daughter Victoria, Princess Royal circa 1845 | right: Victoria in 1867, portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
- Prince Albert Edward Wettin. left: Portrait of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, by Winterhalter, 1846 | right: Edward and Alexandra on their wedding day, 1863.
- Princess Alice Maud Mary. left: Alice (right) and her sister Victoria in the 1850s | Princess Alice Maud Mary. Photograph by Camille Silvy, June 1861. Alice, born April 25, 1843, was embraced into the family by older siblings Vicky and Bertie, even considered “the beauty of the family.”
- Prince Alfred Ernest Albert. left: Alfred Ernest Albert in 1861 | right: Prince Alfred at age 21, in naval uniform with the star of the Garter. Born on August 6, 1844, Victoria and Albert’s fourth child Prince Alfred was second in line to the throne until 1864, when his older brother Edward (Bertie) started having children.
The Crown Princess of Prussia and her sisters in mourning for their father, March 1862. On 14 December 1861, Prince Albert died of typhoid fever. Because of her very close relationship with her father, Victoria was devastated by the news. She went with her husband to England to attend the funeral.
Viktoria Luise of Prussia (born September 13, 1892, Marmor Palace, Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany—died December 11, 1980, Hannover, West Germany (now in Germany)) was the only daughter and last surviving child of Kaiser William II of Germany and a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England.
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Princess Royal; eldest child of Queen Victoria; 1858, married Prince Frederick William of Prussia (q.v.); he reigned as Emperor Friedrich III for three months before his death in 1888, and she was from then onwards known as the Empress Frederick; her eldest son was Kaiser Wilhelm II (q.v.)
Victoria Louise (1892–1980) Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Born Victoria Louise Adelaide Matilda Charlotte on September 13, 1892, at Marble Palace, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany; died on December 11, 1980, in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany; daughter of Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein (1858–1921) and Wilhelm II (1859–1941), emperor of ...
