Princess Victoria, Australia Alberta … Of HesseAge: 871863–1950
- Name
- Princess Victoria, Australia Alberta … Of Hesse
- Given names
- Victoria, Australia Alberta
- Name prefix
- Princess
- Name suffix
- Of Hesse
Birth | 1863 26 19 |
Australian History | 1863 Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales. |
Birth of a sister | 1864 (Age 12 months)
younger sister -
Elizabeth "Ella" … Grand Duchess
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Birth of a sister | 1866 (Age 3)
younger sister -
Princess Irene … Of Hesse
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Australian History | 1867 (Age 4) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
Birth of a brother | 1868 (Age 5)
younger brother -
Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse
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Australian History | 1868 (Age 5) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
Australian History | 1869 (Age 6) Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
Birth of a brother | 1870 (Age 7)
younger brother -
Frederick …
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Birth of a sister | 6 June 1872 (Age 9) Darmstadt, Germany
younger sister -
Alexandra Fedorovna "Alix" … Tsarina
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Australian History | 1872 (Age 9) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
Death of a brother | 1873 (Age 10)
younger brother -
Frederick …
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Australian History | 1873 (Age 10) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
Birth of a sister | 1874 (Age 11)
younger sister -
Mary "May" …
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Australian History | 1875 (Age 12) Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed. |
Death of a sister | 1878 (Age 15) Hesse-Darmstadt, Palace, Germany
younger sister -
Mary "May" …
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Death of a mother | 14 December 1878 (Age 15) Darmstadt, Germany
mother -
Princess Alice Maud Mary …
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Australian History | 1878 (Age 15) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
Australian History | 1879 (Age 16) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
Australian History | 1880 (Age 17) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work. |
Australian History | 1882 (Age 19) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
Australian History | 1883 (Age 20) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
Marriage | Prince Louis … Of Battenberg - View family 1884 (Age 21) |
Marriage of a sister | Elizabeth "Ella" … Grand Duchess - View family 1884 (Age 21)
brother-in-law -
Serge Alexandrovich Romanov Grand Duke
younger sister -
Elizabeth "Ella" … Grand Duchess
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Birth of a daughter #1 | 1885 (Age 22)
daughter -
Princess Alice … Of Battenberg
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Australian History | 1887 (Age 24) Note: An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series. First direct Inter-colonial passenger trains begin running between Adelaide and Melbourne. |
Marriage of a sister | Princess Irene … Of Hesse - View family 1888 (Age 25)
brother-in-law -
Prince Henry … Of Prussia
younger sister -
Princess Irene … Of Hesse
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Birth of a daughter #2 | 13 July 1889 (Age 26) Schloss, Heiligenberg, Baden- Württemberg, Germany
daughter -
Louise Alexandra Mountbatten Princess
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Australian History | 1889 (Age 26) Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration. |
Australian History | 1890 (Age 27) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
Australian History | 1891 (Age 28) Note: A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name 'the Commonwealth of Australia' and drafting a constitution. Note: The first attempt at a federal constitution is drafted. Note: The Convention adopts the constitution, although it has no legal status Note: A severe depression hits Australia |
Birth of a son #3 | 1892 (Age 29) |
Death of a father | 1892 (Age 29)
father -
Grand Duke Louis IV … Of Hesse
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Australian History | 1892 (Age 29) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
Australian History | 1893 (Age 30) Note: The Corowa Conference (the 'people's convention') calls on the colonial parliaments to pass enabling acts, allowing the election of delegates to a new constitutional convention aimed at drafting a proposal and putting it to a referendum in each colony. |
Marriage of a brother | Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse - View family 1894 (Age 31)
younger brother -
Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse
sister-in-law -
Victoria Melita Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
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Marriage of a sister | Alexandra Fedorovna "Alix" … Tsarina - View family 26 November 1894 (Age 31) Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
brother-in-law -
Nicholas II Alexandrovich Romanov Tsar Of Russia
younger sister -
Alexandra Fedorovna "Alix" … Tsarina
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Australian History | 1894 (Age 31) Note: South Australia becomes the first Australian colony, and the second place in the world, to grant women the right to vote, as well the first Parliament in the world to allow women to stand for office. |
Australian History | 1895 (Age 32) Note: The premiers, except for those of Queensland and Western Australia, agree to implement the Corowa proposals. Note: Waltzing Matilda is first sung in public, in Winton, Queensland Note: Banjo Paterson publishes The Man from Snowy River |
Australian History | 1896 (Age 33) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
Australian History | 1897 (Age 34) Note: In two sessions, the Second National Australasian Convention meets (with representatives from all colonies except Queensland present). They agree to adopt a constitution based on the 1891 draft, and then revise and amend it later that year. Note: Catherine Helen Spence became the first female political candidate for political office, standing for election as a representative for South Australia. |
Australian History | 1898 (Age 35) Note: The Convention agrees on a final draft to be put to the people. Note: After much public debate, the Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian referendums are successful; the New South Wales referendum narrowly fails. Later New South Wales votes 'yes' in a second referendum, and Queensland and Western Australia also vote to join. |
Australian History | 1899 (Age 36) Note: The decision is made to site the national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney. Note: The Australian Labor Party holds office for a few days in Queensland, becoming the first trade union party to do so anywhere in the world. Note: The first contingents from various Australian colonies are sent to South Africa to participate in the Second Boer War. |
Birth of a son #4 | 1900 (Age 37) Windsor, Berkshire, England |
Australian History | 1900 (Age 37) Note: Several delegates visit London to resist proposed changes to the agreed-upon constitution. Note: The constitution is passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as a schedule to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, and is given royal assent |
Death of a maternal grandmother | 22 January 1901 (Age 38) Osborne House, Isle Of Wight, England
maternal grandmother -
Alexandrina Victoria Hanover
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Australian History | 1901 (Age 38) Note: (01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General Note: The first parliament met in Parliament House, Melbourne Note: Immigration Restriction act was introduced- The White Australian Policy Note: The Australian National Flag was flown for the first time |
Australian History | 1902 (Age 39) Note: The Franchise Act guarantees women the right to vote in federal elections (by this stage, most states had already done this). However, it excludes most non-European ethnic groups, including Aboriginal people, unless already registered to vote on State roles. Note: King Edward VII approved the design of the Australian flag. Note: Breaker Morant is executed for having shot Boers who had surrendered |
Marriage of a daughter | Princess Alice … Of Battenberg - View family 1903 (Age 40)
son-in-law -
Prince Andrew … Of Greece
daughter -
Princess Alice … Of Battenberg
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Australian History | 1903 (Age 40) Note: The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice. Note: The Defence Act gives the federal government full control over the Australian Army Note: Alfred Deakin elected Prime Minister |
Australian History | 1904 (Age 41) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
Birth of a granddaughter #1 | 1905 (Age 42)
granddaughter -
Margarita Mountbatten
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Marriage of a brother | Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse - View family 1905 (Age 42)
younger brother -
Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse
sister-in-law -
Princess Eleonore … Of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich
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Birth of a granddaughter #2 | 1906 (Age 43)
granddaughter -
Theodora Mountbatten
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Australian History | 1906 (Age 43) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
Australian History | 1908 (Age 45) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
Australian History | 1909 (Age 46) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
Australian History | 1910 (Age 47) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
Birth of a granddaughter #3 | 1911 (Age 48)
granddaughter -
Princess Cecilie Mountbatten Of Greece
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Australian History | 1911 (Age 48) Note: The Royal Australian Navy is founded Note: The Northern Territory comes under Commonwealth control, being split off from South Australia Note: The first national census is conducted. Note: Australian Capital Territory proclaimed. |
Australian History | 1912 (Age 49) Note: Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time Note: Walter Burley Griffin wins a design competition for the new city of Canberra |
Australian History | 1913 (Age 50) Note: Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains. Note: Matthew Flinders refers to New South Wales by the name 'Australia'. |
Australian History | 1913 (Age 50) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
Birth of a granddaughter #4 | 1914 (Age 51)
granddaughter -
Sophia …
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Australian History | 1914 (Age 51) Note: Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War. This was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's. |
Australian History | 1915 (Age 52) Note: (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April. Note: Jervis Bay Territory comprising 6,677 hectares surrendered and becomes part of the Australia Capital Territory. Note: Surfing is first introduced to Australia Note: Billy Hughes became Prime Minister |
Australian History | 1916 (Age 53) Note: Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill' Note: Australia suffers heavy casualties in the Western Front Battle of the Somme. Note: The Returned Sailors� and Soldiers� Imperial League of Australia, the forerunner to the Returned and Services League of Australia is founded Note: The Labor government under Billy Hughes splits over conscription. First referendum on conscription is rejected |
Birth of a granddaughter #5 | 1917 (Age 54)
granddaughter -
Tatiana Elizabeth Mountbatten Lady
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Australian History | 1917 (Age 54) Note: Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed. Note: Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade launches last cavalry charge in modern warfare to capture Beersheba from the Ottoman Turks. |
Death of a sister | 16 July 1918 (Age 55) Ekaterinburg, Russia
younger sister -
Alexandra Fedorovna "Alix" … Tsarina
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Death of a sister | 17 July 1918 (Age 55) Alapayevsk, Ural Mts., Russia
younger sister -
Elizabeth "Ella" … Grand Duchess
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Australian History | 1918 (Age 55) Note: (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens Note: Australian troops spearhead 8 August offensive against Hindenberg Line - the 'black day of the German Army'. Note: On 12 August, Australian commander General Sir John Monash is knighted in the field of battle by King George V Note: First World War ends - 60,000 Australians dead. Note: The Darwin Rebellion takes place, with 1,000 demonstrators demanding the resignation of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, John A. Gilruth. |
Birth of a grandson #6 | 1919 (Age 56)
grandson -
Marquess David Mountbatten Of Milford Haven
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Australian History | 1919 (Age 56) Note: Prime Minister Billy Hughes signs Treaty of Versailles: the first signing of an international treaty by Australia. Australia obtains League of Nations mandate over German New Guinea. |
Australian History | 1920 (Age 57) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
Birth of a grandson #7 | 10 June 1921 (Age 58) Isle Of Kerkira, Mon Repos, Corfu, Greece
grandson -
Philip Mountbatten
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Death of a husband | 1921 (Age 58)
husband -
Prince Louis … Of Battenberg
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Australian History | 1921 (Age 58) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
Australian History | 1922 (Age 59) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
Marriage of a daughter | Louise Alexandra Mountbatten Princess - View family 3 November 1923 (Age 60) Chapel Royal, St. James Palace, England
son-in-law -
Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf "Gustaf" Adolf Bernadotte
daughter -
Louise Alexandra Mountbatten Princess
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Australian History | 1923 (Age 60) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
Australian History | 1926 (Age 63) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
Australian History | 1927 (Age 64) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
Australian History | 1928 (Age 65) Note: Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built. |
Australian History | 1929 (Age 66) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
Marriage of a granddaughter | Sophia … - View family 1930 (Age 67)
granddaughter's husband -
Prince Christopher … Of Hesse
granddaughter -
Sophia …
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Australian History | 1930 (Age 67) Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup |
Marriage of a granddaughter | Margarita Mountbatten - View family 1931 (Age 68)
granddaughter's husband -
Prince Gottfried … Of Hohenlohe-Lagenburg
granddaughter -
Margarita Mountbatten
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Marriage of a granddaughter | Theodora Mountbatten - View family 1931 (Age 68)
granddaughter's husband -
Berthold … Of Baden Margrave
granddaughter -
Theodora Mountbatten
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Marriage of a granddaughter | Princess Cecilie Mountbatten Of Greece - View family 1931 (Age 68)
nephew -
Grand Duke George Donatus … Of Hesse
granddaughter -
Princess Cecilie Mountbatten Of Greece
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Australian History | 1931 (Age 68) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
Australian History | 1932 (Age 69) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
Australian History | 1933 (Age 70) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
Australian History | 1936 (Age 73) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
Death of a granddaughter | 1937 (Age 74)
granddaughter -
Princess Cecilie Mountbatten Of Greece
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Death of a brother | 1937 (Age 74)
younger brother -
Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse
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Australian History | 1937 (Age 74) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
Death of a son | 1938 (Age 75) |
Australian History | 1938 (Age 75) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
Australian History | 1939 (Age 76) Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised. Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires |
Australian History | 1940 (Age 77) Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean. |
Australian History | 1941 (Age 78) Note: 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. Note: Apr-Aug, Australian garrison (Rats of Tobruk) halt advance of Hitler's panzers for the first time during the Siege of Tobruk. Note: Menzies resigns and John Curtin becomes Prime Minister in the Curtin Government of 1941-45. |
Australian History | 1942 (Age 79) Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia. Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua) Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay. Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies. Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure. Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws. |
Australian History | 1943 (Age 80) Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula. |
Australian History | 1944 (Age 81) Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians. Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville. Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians |
Australian History | 1945 (Age 82) Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader. Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time |
Marriage of a granddaughter | Sophia … - View family 1946 (Age 83)
granddaughter's husband -
Prince George William … Of Hanover
granddaughter -
Sophia …
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Australian History | 1946 (Age 83) Note: Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme Note: Norman Makin, is voted in as the first President of the United Nations Security Council. |
Marriage of a grandson | Philip Mountbatten - View family 20 November 1947 (Age 84) Westminster, Abbey, London, England
grandson -
Philip Mountbatten
grandson's wife -
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor
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Australian History | 1948 (Age 85) Note: Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. Note: Australia becomes a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
Australian History | 1949 (Age 86) Note: Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins Note: All indigenous ex-servicemen and any Indigenous Australians who are eligible to vote in State Elections (NSW, VIC, SA and TAS) are given an unrestricted right to vote in Federal Elections. Note: The Nationality and Citizenship Act is passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements. Note: Menzies returns to power as leader of the new Liberal Party Menzies Government. |
Australian History | 1950 (on the date of death) Note: 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea. Note: Voters reject a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party |
Death | 1950 (Age 87) |
Family with parents - View family |
father |
Grand Duke Louis IV … Of Hesse
Birth 1837 Death 1892 (Age 55) Loading...
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6 years mother |
Princess Alice Maud Mary …
Birth 25 April 1843 23 23 Buckingham, Palace, London, England Death 14 December 1878 (Age 35) Darmstadt, Germany Loading...
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Marriage: 1 July 1862 — Osborne House, Isle Of Wight |
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6 months #1 herself |
Princess Victoria, Australia Alberta … Of Hesse
Birth 1863 26 19 Death 1950 (Age 87) Loading...
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1 year #2 younger sister |
Elizabeth "Ella" … Grand Duchess
Birth 1864 27 20 Death 17 July 1918 (Age 54) Alapayevsk, Ural Mts., Russia Loading...
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2 years #3 younger sister |
Princess Irene … Of Hesse
Birth 1866 29 22 Death 1953 (Age 87) Loading...
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2 years #4 younger brother |
Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse
Birth 1868 31 24 Death 1937 (Age 69) Loading...
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2 years #5 younger brother |
Frederick …
Birth 1870 33 26 Death 1873 (Age 3) Loading...
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2 years #6 younger sister |
Alexandra Fedorovna "Alix" … Tsarina
Birth 6 June 1872 35 29 Darmstadt, Germany Death 16 July 1918 (Age 46) Ekaterinburg, Russia Loading...
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19 months #7 younger sister |
Mary "May" …
Birth 1874 37 30 Death 1878 (Age 4) Hesse-Darmstadt, Palace, Germany Loading...
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Family with Prince Louis … Of Battenberg - View family |
husband |
Prince Louis … Of Battenberg
Birth 1854 Death 1921 (Age 67) Loading...
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9 years herself |
Princess Victoria, Australia Alberta … Of Hesse
Birth 1863 26 19 Death 1950 (Age 87) Loading...
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Marriage: 1884 |
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1 year #1 daughter |
Princess Alice … Of Battenberg
Birth 1885 31 22 Death about 1969 (Age 84) Buckingham, Palace, London, England Loading...
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5 years #2 daughter |
Louise Alexandra Mountbatten Princess
Birth 13 July 1889 35 26 Schloss, Heiligenberg, Baden- Württemberg, Germany Death 7 March 1965 (Age 75) Stockholm, Sweden Loading...
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3 years #3 son |
George Mountbatten Marquess
Birth 1892 38 29 Death 1938 (Age 46) Loading...
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8 years #4 son |
Earl Mountbatten Louis Mountbatten Of Burma
Birth 1900 46 37 Windsor, Berkshire, England Death 27 August 1979 (Age 79) Donegal Bay, County Sligo, Ireland Loading...
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