![Attributed to F Backofen (active 1860-1880) - Victoria, Princess of Hesse [in Portraits of Royal Children Vol.7 1863-1864] Fotografía De Autopsia, Princesa Alicia, Darmstadt, Horno, Gotha, Hesse](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/a0/54/d1/a054d19f255a335d7a0903dd010c2385--princess-victoria-queen-victoria.jpg)
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Princess Victoria of Hesse as a child, c. 1866
Victoria, born in 1863, was the first of seven children born to Alice of the United Kingdom and Louis of Hesse. She was Queen Victoria's granddaughter through her mother. Her mother died in 1878, as did her younger sister Marie, leaving Victoria to assume some responsibility for her younger siblings. She married in 1884 to Louis de Battenberg, with whom she would have four children. She would be the grandmother of Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. She died in 1950, aged 87.
Princess Victoria of Hesse in 1868
The Battenberg royal family visiting Russia 1901/1902
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Princess Louis of Battenberg with children Alice, Louise and George
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Victoria of Battenberg with young Alice riding a donkey
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Victoria of Hesse Darmstadt
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Victoria of Hesse Darmstadt with nurse Mrs. Moffat
1863
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Ella and Victoria H with Ella and Victoria's husbands and Victoria's middle children
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
