Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom
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| Princess Beatrice of Battenberg | |||||
 Princess Beatrice in 1886 | |||||
| Born | 14 April 1857 Buckingham Palace, London, England | ||||
| Died | 26 October 1944 (aged 87) Brantridge Park, Sussex, England | ||||
| Burial | 3 November 1944 | ||||
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Prince Henry of Battenberg
(m. 1885; died 1896) | ||||
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| House | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (until 1917) Windsor (from 1917) | ||||
| Father | Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | ||||
| Mother | Queen Victoria | ||||
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Princess Beatrice (Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore; 14 April 1857 – 26 October 1944) was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.[1]
Beatrice married Prince Henry of Battenberg, the son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and Julia von Hauke and brother-in-law of her niece Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine on the Isle of Wight on July 23, 1885. They had four children together named Alexander, Victoria, Leopold and Maurice.[2]
Her husband Prince Henry died in 1896 of malaria while fighting in the Anglo-Asante War. Beatrice remained at her mother's side until her death in 1901. She died aged in 1944, at the age of 87.[3]
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Media related to Princess Beatrice at Wikimedia Commons
- Isle of Wight Beacon on Princess Beatrice Archived 2009-02-12 at the Wayback Machine
- Information about Queen Victoria's journals
- Regiments page on Princess Beatrice Archived 2007-11-16 at the Wayback Machine
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