Princess Beatrice, later known as Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Princess Beatrice in 1886
Queen Victoria holding Princess Beatrice in 1862
Princess Beatrice when a child, Richard Lauchert 1863
The daughters of Queen Victoria mourn the loss of their father in 1862. Beatrice is standing in the centre.
Alexander Albert Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke was a British Royal Navy officer, a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the last surviving grandson of Queen Victoria.
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom
…unwell (even when suffering a great deal) up to the very last day." Beatrice, aided by chloroform, gave birth the following week to her first son, Alexander. Despite suffering a miscarriage in the early months of her marriage, Beatrice gave birth to four children: Alexander, called "Drino", was born in 1886…
Wearing the Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III
Bookplate by Henry Badeley showing the coat of arms used by Alexander as member of Battenberg family (until 1917)
Tomb of Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg, with Lord Carisbrooke's ashes casket set into the wall above