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Her Royal Highness The Princess Beatrice, (Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore), ( 14 April 1857 - 26 October 1944), was a member of the British Royal Family, the fifth daugther and the youngest child of Queen Victoria. Princess Beatrice was famous for editing the journals and diaries of Queen Victoria after her death.
1 Early Life
Princess Beatrice was born on April 14, 1857 at Buckingham Palace, London. Her mother was the reigning British monarch, Queen Victoria, the only daughter of King George III's fourth eldest son, HRH Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent. Her father was HRH Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. As the daughter of the sovereign, Beatrice was styled Her Royal Highness from birth.
Her father, the Prince Consort, died when she was only four years old and the griefstriken Queen clung to her youngest child. Nicknamed "Baby" by the Queen, the princess became a good pianist; some her compositions were later published. Her chief occupation, however, was to act as her mother's secretary and companion, a role she fulfilled until Queen Victoria's death on 22 January 1901Events January 1 World celebrates what is regarded as the start of the new century. Zero-ists' argument that new century should be celebrated in 1900 rejected worldwide). January 1 The six colonies that make up Australia are federated as under an act of t. She was linked romantically with Napoleon Eugene, Prince ImperialNapoleon Eugene Louis John Joseph ( March 16, 1856 June 1, 1879), Prince Imperial, was the only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France and his wife the Empress Eugenie. In 1870 the Prince Imperial had to flee from France with the Imperial Family and sett, who was killed in the Anglo-Zulu WarThe Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between Britain and the Zulus, and signalled the end of the Zulus as an independent nation. It had complex beginnings, some bad decisions, bloody battles that caused the British to engage earlier than they intended, b in an ambush.
2 Marriage
On 23 July 18851885 is a common year starting on Thursday (click on link for calendar) Events January January 4 The first successful appendectomy is performed (Dr. William Grant; patient was Mary Gartside). January 20 L. Thompson patents the roller coaster. January 26 T, Princess Beatrice married His Serene Highness Prince Henry of BattenbergPrince Henry of Battenberg, KG, PC ( 5 October 1858- 20 January 1896) was a descendant of the Grand Ducal House of Hesse and by Rhine who became a member of the British Royal Family through his marriage to Princess Beatrice, the youngest daughter of Queen, the third son of His Grand Ducal Highness Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (1823-1888) by his morganatic marriage to Julie Therese, Countess von Hauke (1825-1895), the daughter of a Polish politician on ( 5 October 1858- 20 January 1896) at St. Mildred's Church, Whippingham on the Isle of Wight.
Queen Victoria gave her blessing to the marriage on the condition that the couple made their home with her. Prince Henry was His elder brother, Prince Louis of Battenberg, had married Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and a niece of Princess Beatrice, a year earlier. On the day of his wedding, the Queen granted Prince Henry the style Royal Highness, a style that was only in effect in Great Britain, not Hesse and by Rhine, where the prince was a Serene Highness.
Beatrice and Henry had four children, all raised in the United Kingdom. By Royal Warrant of 13 December 1886, the Queen granted the children the style Highness. This style was was only in effect in Great Britain and not Hesse and by Rhine, where as children of Prince Henry they were only entitled to the style Serene Highness:
