Victoria's Royal Household Gallery

Queen Victoria in semi State Robes D880020c

OSBORNE HOUSE, Isle of Wight. The Ryde Album. Queen Victoria in semi State Robes. The handwritten caption states "(best portrait ever taken)"

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Monarchy, Victorian

Princess Victoria Eugenie D880049

OSBORNE HOUSE, Isle of Wight. The Ryde Album. Princess Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena of Battenberg (1887-1969), known as Princess Ena. Granddaughter of Queen Victoria and daughter of Prince Henry and Princess Beatrice. Here shown in the dress she wore to the coronation of her uncle Edward VII (1901). In 1906 she converted to Catholicism and married King Alfonso XIII of Spain. She is the grandmother of King Juan Carlos I of Spain

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The Battenberg children D880019c

OSBORNE HOUSE, Isle of Wight. The Ryde Album. Portrait of a family group. These grandchildren of Queen Victoria are the four children of Prince Henry of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice. They are Prince Alexander (1886-1960), Princess Ena (1887-1969), Prince Leopold (1889-1922) and Prince Maurice (1891-1914). This is probably a mourning photograph, commemorating the death of their father. They are all wearing black and looking at a photograph frame that Alexander is holding, it is most likely a picture of their father. He died of a fever (malaria) whilst serving with the British Army out in West Africa in 1896, aged only 38. Tragically Prince Maurice, seen here aged 4, also died in the army. He died in 1914 in the first battle of Ypres at the start of World War I, aged only 23

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