Louis IV of Hesse
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Louis IV was the Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 13 June 1877 until his death in 1892. Through his marriage to Queen Victoria's second daughter Alice, he was connected to the British royal famil
Ludwig IV, 1878
Portrait of Louis IV as Prince Louis of Hesse by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1861)
The Equestrian statue of Ludwig IV on the Friedensplatz in Darmstadt
Victoria Hesse 1863
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, later Princess Louis of Battenberg and then Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by
Louis IV of Hesse
…Hesse, German Empire Spouse Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (m. 1862; died 1878) Countess Alexandrine von Hutten-Czapska (m. 1884; ann. 1884) Issue Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia Irene, Princess Henry of Prussia Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine Prince Friedrich Alexandra…
Four of the Hesse sisters: (left to right) Irene, Victoria, Elisabeth, and Alix, 1885
Photograph by Alexander Bassano, c. 1878
Victoria (back row, second from right) at the marriage of her brother Ernest Louis (back row, right) to Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (seated, second from right), 1894. Nicholas II of Russia and his fiancé Alix are on the back row left, Irene and Elisabeth are seated front row left, and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (Elisabeth's husband) is seated right.
Victoria in 1932