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Queen Victoria surrounded by her family - Coburg, 1894 (1 of 2)
Taken on 21 April 1894
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- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
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- https://www.flickr.com/photos/99377981@N03/26233235971/in/faves-196177812@N04/
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
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About this work
Queen Victoria surrounded by her entire family, that reigned across the entire Europe.
It is a royal family group photograph at Coburg, into the Palais Edinburgh, following the wedding of Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Grand Duke Ernest of Hesse, 21 April 1894. (The wedding took place two days before, on 19 April 1894)
The following people are in the photo from left to right:
1. Kaiser Wilhelm II. Son of No. 3.
2. Queen Victoria.
3. Victoria, the Empress Frederick, was the eldest child of Queen Victoria. She married Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia who was briefly Kaiser Frederick III.
4. Princess Beatrice of Edinburg and of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 10-year-old in this picture, was the younger sister of the bride. She later married Alfonso, the Infante of Spain.
5. 15-year-old Feodora was Queen Victoria's first great-grandchild, having born into Bernard III, Duke of SaxeMeiningen and Charlotte (No. 15). She was their only child, and committed suicde in 1945 after a lifetime of illhealth.
6. 20-year-old Alfred had just recently become the Heir Apparent to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1894. He is brother of the bride. Suicidal and syphilitic,…
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