Empress Gallery

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and their Children

Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and Prince Consort Albert (1819-1961) and their Family (from top left, going across and then down): Victoria, Princess Royal (Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa), German Empress and Queen of Prussia by marriage to German Emperor Frederick III (1840-1901), King Edward VII (1841-1910), Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (formerly The Duke of Edinburgh) (1840-1900), The Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-1884), The Duke of Connaught (1850-1942), Helena, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (1846-1923), Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine (1843-1878), Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (later Princess Henry of Battenberg) (1857-1944) and Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939). Date: circa 1910

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

The Hesse-Cassel and Greek royal families

The youngest daughters of Vicky, Princess Royal of Great Britain and Empress of Prussia, the Princesses Sophie and Margarete of Prussia with their husbands and children at Friedrichshof in 1904. Sophie is in the darker dress, standing beside her husband Constantine, Duke of Sparta. Margarete ('Mossy') is on the right, next to her husband Friedrich Karl of Hesse-Cassel. The children are, from the left, George of Greece (standing), Philipp of Hesse-Cassel, Helen of Greece, Maximilian of Hesse-Cassel, Paul of Greece (behind, in a dress), Wolfgang of Hsse-Cassel, directly in front of his elder brother Friedrich Wilhelm, Alexander of Greece in front of Richard of Hesse-Cassel and Christoph of Hesse-Cassel. Margarete was unusual in that out of her six sons, four of them were sets of twins

© Charlotte Zeepvat/ILN/Mary Evans Picture Library

Danish, British and Russian royal families at Bernstorff

The three daughters of King Christian IX of Denmark assembled at Bernstorff in 1871 with their families. From the top, Maria Feodorovna, Empress of Russia (wife of Tsar Alexander III) holding her son, Georgi Alexandrovich; (in front of her) her sister Princess Thyra (Duchess of Cumberland); Alexandra, Princess of Wales (later Queen Alexandra, wife of King Edward VII) holding her daughter Princess Maud; (behind) Princess Victoria of Wales; Queen Louise of Denmark; Prince Albert Victor of Wales (Duke of Clarence); (behind, in white) Grand Prince Nicholas Alexandrovich (Nicholas II); Prince George of Wales (George V); Princess Louise of Wales; Crown Princess Louise of Denmark holding her son, Prince Christian

© Mary Evans/Charlotte Zeepvat Collection