Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, then Princess Louis of Battenberg, later Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
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
Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
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 family. Two of his daughters married into the House of Romanov.
Ludwig IV, 1878
The Equestrian statue of Ludwig IV on the Friedensplatz in Darmstadt
Image: Victoria Hesse 1863
Image: Elizabeth Fyodorovna of Russia
