At the same time, the newly arrived Beatrice showed promise. The elder favourite daughter of Prince Albert, the Princess Royal, was about to take up residence in Germany with her new husband, Frederick ("Fritz") of Prussia. Beatrice is standing in the centre.įrom birth, Beatrice became a favoured child. The daughters of Queen Victoria mourn the loss of their father. Her godparents were the Duchess of Kent (maternal grandmother) the Princess Royal (eldest sister) and the Prince Frederick of Prussia (her future brother-in-law). She was baptised in the private chapel at Buckingham Palace on 16 June 1857. A fortnight later, Queen Victoria reported in her journal, "I was amply rewarded and forgot all I had gone through when I heard dearest Albert say 'It's a fine child, and a girl!'" Albert and Queen Victoria chose the names Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore: Mary after Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, the last surviving child of King George III of the United Kingdom Victoria after the Queen and Feodore after Feodora, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, the Queen's older half-sister. Queen Victoria was undeterred and used "that blessed chloroform" for her last pregnancy. Chloroform was considered dangerous to mother and child and was frowned upon by the Church of England and the medical authorities.
The birth caused controversy when it was announced that Queen Victoria would seek relief from the pains of delivery through the use of chloroform administered by Dr John Snow. She was the fifth daughter and youngest of the nine children of the reigning British monarch, Queen Victoria, and her husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (later the Prince Consort). Princess Beatrice was born on 14 April 1857 at Buckingham Palace, London. Queen Victoria holding Princess Beatrice in 1862 Beatrice devoted the next 30 years to editing Queen Victoria's journals as her designated literary executor and continued to make public appearances. Beatrice remained at her mother's side until Queen Victoria died on 22 January 1901. The Prince and Princess had four children, but 10 years into their marriage, on 20 January 1896, Prince Henry died of malaria while fighting in the Anglo-Asante War. Queen Victoria consented on condition that Beatrice and Henry make their home with her and that Beatrice continue her duties as the Queen's unofficial secretary. After a year of persuasion, the Queen, whose consent was required pursuant to the Royal Marriages Act, finally agreed to the marriage, which took place at Whippingham on the Isle of Wight on 23 July 1885. She was attracted to the Prince Imperial and there was talk of a possible marriage, but he was killed in the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879.īeatrice fell in love with Prince Henry of Battenberg, the son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and Julia von Hauke and brother-in-law of her niece Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine. Nevertheless, many suitors were put forward, including Louis Napoléon, Prince Imperial, the son of the exiled Emperor Napoleon III of France, and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, the widower of Beatrice's older sister Alice.
The Queen was so set against her youngest daughter marrying that she refused to discuss the possibility. Beatrice was brought up to stay with her mother always and she soon resigned herself to her fate. As her elder sisters married and left their mother, the Queen came to rely on the company of her youngest daughter, whom she called "Baby" for most of her childhood.
Beatrice was also the last of Queen Victoria's children to die, nearly 66 years after the first, her elder sister Alice.īeatrice's childhood coincided with Queen Victoria's grief following the death of her husband on 14 December 1861. Princess Beatrice VA, CI, GCVO, GBE, RRC, GCStJ (Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore 14 April 1857 – 26 October 1944), later Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke.The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file.
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