Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein
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Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, was a grandson of Queen Victoria. He was the second son of Victoria's daughter Princess Helena by her husband Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. Prince Albert was the head of the House of Oldenburg, and also the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg and the fourth Duke of Schleswig-Holstein between 1921 and 1931.
Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein
Prince Albert (bottom row, second from right) with members of his family in May 1900
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom
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Princess Helena, later Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, was the third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Photograph, c. 1882
Princess Helena (right) with her brother Prince Alfred. Helena was Alfred's favourite sister. Portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
Princess Helena, a few months before the death of her father, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 1861
Portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1865). Currently at the Royal Collection.