Princess Beatrice | |||||
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Princess Henry of Battenberg | |||||
Born |
Buckingham Palace, London |
14 April 1857||||
Died | 26 October 1944 Brantridge Park, Sussex |
(aged 87)||||
Burial | 3 November 1944 St George's Chapel, Windsor 28 August 1945 St. Mildred's Church, Whippingham |
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Spouse | Prince Henry of Battenberg (m. 1885; d. 1896) |
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House | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | ||||
Father | Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | ||||
Mother | Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom |
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Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore |
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, VA, CI, GCVO, GBE, RRC, GCStJ (Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore; later Princess Henry of Battenberg; 14 April 1857 – 26 October 1944) was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. King Felipe VI of Spain is her great-great-grandson. Beatrice was the last of Queen Victoria's children to die, 65 years after the first, her sister Alice.
Beatrice's childhood coincided with Queen Victoria's grief following the death of her husband Albert, Prince Consort on 14 December 1861. As her elder sisters married and left their mother, Queen Victoria came to rely on the company of her youngest daughter, whom she called "Baby" for most of her childhood. Beatrice was brought up to stay with her mother always and she soon resigned herself to her fate. Queen Victoria was so set against her youngest daughter marrying that she refused to discuss the possibility. 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. 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.