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left: Queen Victoria with her eldest daughter Victoria, Princess Royal circa 1845 | right: Victoria in 1867, portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Princess Leonore, Duchess of Gotland (born 2014), Crown Princess Victoria's niece as the daughter of Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland. [ citation needed ] Désirée Magnusson (born 2015), daughter of Crown Princess Victoria's cousin Gustaf Magnusson and granddaughter of Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson .
Born as Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise and also known as ‘Victoria, Princess Royal’, she became famous as Empress Frederick after her husband’s death. The eldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert, she was the heiress to the throne, in line to succeed her mother as queen of the United Kingdom, until the birth of her younger brother.
Victoria, Princess Royal was the eldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and her husband Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.She was born on November 21, 1840, at Buckingham Palace in London, England, nine months after her parents’ marriage.
Winterhalter was born in the Black Forest where he was encouraged to draw at school. In 1818 he went to Freiburg to study under Karl Ludwig Schüler and then moved to Munich in 1823, where he attended the Academy and studied under Josef Stieler, a fashionable portrait painter. Winterhalter was first brought to the attention of Queen Victoria by the Queen of the Belgians and subsequently ...
English Monarchs - Victoria, Princess Royal; Internet Archive - The Empress Frederick; a memoir; Royal Museums Greenwich - The life of Queen Victoria and her family; Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons - Empress Frederick and the Women’s Movement in Nineteenth - Century GermanyCentury German
