Princess Irene … Of HesseAge: 871866–1953
- Name
- Princess Irene … Of Hesse
- Given names
- Irene
- Name prefix
- Princess
- Name suffix
- Of Hesse
| Birth | 1866 29 22 |
| Australian History | 1867 (Age 12 months) 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 2)
younger brother -
Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse
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| Australian History | 1868 (Age 2) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| Australian History | 1869 (Age 3) 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 4)
younger brother -
Frederick …
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| Birth of a sister | 6 June 1872 (Age 6) Darmstadt, Germany
younger sister -
Alexandra Fedorovna "Alix" … Tsarina
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| Australian History | 1872 (Age 6) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Death of a brother | 1873 (Age 7)
younger brother -
Frederick …
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| Australian History | 1873 (Age 7) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Birth of a sister | 1874 (Age 8)
younger sister -
Mary "May" …
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| Australian History | 1875 (Age 9) 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 12) Hesse-Darmstadt, Palace, Germany
younger sister -
Mary "May" …
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| Death of a mother | 14 December 1878 (Age 12) Darmstadt, Germany
mother -
Princess Alice Maud Mary …
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| Australian History | 1878 (Age 12) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 13) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 14) 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 16) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 17) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Marriage of a sister | Princess Victoria, Australia Alberta … Of Hesse - View family 1884 (Age 18)
brother-in-law -
Prince Louis … Of Battenberg
elder sister -
Princess Victoria, Australia Alberta … Of Hesse
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| Marriage of a sister | Elizabeth "Ella" … Grand Duchess - View family 1884 (Age 18)
brother-in-law -
Serge Alexandrovich Romanov Grand Duke
elder sister -
Elizabeth "Ella" … Grand Duchess
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| Australian History | 1887 (Age 21) 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 | Prince Henry … Of Prussia - View family 1888 (Age 22) |
| Birth of a son #1 | 1889 (Age 23)
son -
Waldemar …
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| Australian History | 1889 (Age 23) 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 24) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 25) 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 |
| Death of a father | 1892 (Age 26)
father -
Grand Duke Louis IV … Of Hesse
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| Australian History | 1892 (Age 26) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 27) 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 28)
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 28) 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 28) 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 29) 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 30) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 31) 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 32) 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 33) 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 #2 | 1900 (Age 34)
son -
Henry …
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| Australian History | 1900 (Age 34) 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 35) Osborne House, Isle Of Wight, England
maternal grandmother -
Alexandrina Victoria Hanover
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| Australian History | 1901 (Age 35) 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 36) 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 |
| Australian History | 1903 (Age 37) 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 |
| Death of a son | 1904 (Age 38)
son -
Henry …
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| Australian History | 1904 (Age 38) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
| Marriage of a brother | Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse - View family 1905 (Age 39)
younger brother -
Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse
sister-in-law -
Princess Eleonore … Of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich
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| Australian History | 1906 (Age 40) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 42) 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 43) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 44) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 45) 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 46) 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 47) 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 47) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 48) 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 49) 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 50) 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 |
| Australian History | 1917 (Age 51) 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 52) Ekaterinburg, Russia
younger sister -
Alexandra Fedorovna "Alix" … Tsarina
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| Death of a sister | 17 July 1918 (Age 52) Alapayevsk, Ural Mts., Russia
elder sister -
Elizabeth "Ella" … Grand Duchess
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| Australian History | 1918 (Age 52) 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. |
| Australian History | 1919 (Age 53) 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 54) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 55) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 56) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 57) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 60) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 61) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 62) 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. |
| Death of a husband | 1929 (Age 63)
husband -
Prince Henry … Of Prussia
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| Australian History | 1929 (Age 63) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 64) Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup |
| Australian History | 1931 (Age 65) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 66) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 67) 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 70) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Death of a brother | 1937 (Age 71)
younger brother -
Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse
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| Australian History | 1937 (Age 71) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 72) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 73) 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 74) 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 75) 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 76) 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 77) 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 78) 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 |
| Death of a son | 1945 (Age 79)
son -
Waldemar …
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| Australian History | 1945 (Age 79) 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 |
| Australian History | 1946 (Age 80) 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. |
| Australian History | 1948 (Age 82) 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 83) 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. |
| Death of a sister | 1950 (Age 84)
elder sister -
Princess Victoria, Australia Alberta … Of Hesse
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| Australian History | 1950 (Age 84) 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 |
| Australian History | 1951 (Age 85) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
| Australian History | 1952 (Age 86) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
| Death | 1953 (Age 87) |
| Family with parents - View family |
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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 elder sister |
Princess Victoria, Australia Alberta … Of Hesse
Birth 1863 26 19 Death 1950 (Age 87) Loading...
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1 year #2 elder 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 herself |
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 Henry … Of Prussia - View family |
| husband |
Prince Henry … Of Prussia
Birth 1862 30 21 Death 1929 (Age 67) Loading...
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4 years herself |
Princess Irene … Of Hesse
Birth 1866 29 22 Death 1953 (Age 87) Loading...
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Marriage: 1888 |
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1 year #1 son |
Waldemar …
Birth 1889 27 23 Death 1945 (Age 56) Loading...
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11 years #2 son |
Henry …
Birth 1900 38 34 Death 1904 (Age 4) Loading...
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Child #3 …
Death yes Loading...
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Princess Irene … Of Hesse has 33 first cousins recorded
Father's family (0)
Mother's family (33)
Parents Frederick III … German Emperor + Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Parents Edward VII Wettin King Of England + Princess Alexandra … Of Denmark
Parents Alfred Ernest Albert … Prince + Marie Alexandrovna … Grand Duchess
Parents (Frederick) Christian Charles … Prince + Helena Augusta Victoria Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
Parents Prince Arthur William Patrick … + Duchess Louise Margaret … Of Prussia
Parents Prince Leopold George Duncan … + Princess Helena Frederica … Of Waldeck
Parents Prince Henry Maurice … Of Battenberg + Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore Battenberg
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