Irene of Hesse and by Rhine – The tragedy of the blood (Part two)
Read part one here. Irene fell pregnant quickly and gave birth to her first son Prince Waldemar on 20 March 1889. He was born in […]
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Irene of Hesse and by Rhine – The tragedy of the blood (Part one)
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine was born on 11 July 1866 as the daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and the […]
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – The first German Empress (Part two)
Read part one here. On 2 August 1861, William’s brother passed away, and he became King of Prussia with Augusta as his Queen. Her increasing […]
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach – The first German Empress (Part one)
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was born on 30 September 1811 as the daughter of Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of […]
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover – The Olympia of the Hohenzollerns (Part two)
Read part one here. The accession of her father as King of Great Britain in 1714 led to her entertaining the thought of a marriage […]
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover – The Olympia of the Hohenzollerns (Part one)
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover was born on 26 March 1687 at the Leineschloss in Hanover as the daughter of the then Hereditary Prince of Brunswick-Lüneburg, […]