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Beatrice di Baden ( 22 gennaio 1492 – 4 aprile 1535) è stata una nobildonna tedesca. Era margravia di Baden per nascita e per matrimonio contessa palatina di Simmern. Era una figlia di Cristoforo I di Baden e Ottilia di Katzenelnbogen.
Beatrix of Baden (22 January 1492 – 4 April 1535) was a margravine (wife of a margrave) of Baden by birth and by marriage and a Countess Palatine of Simmern. She was a daughter of Christoph I, Margrave of Baden and Ottilie of Katzenelnbogen .
- Early Life
- Queen Victoria's Devoted Companion
- Marriage
- Queen Victoria's Last Years
- Later Life
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Princess Beatrice was born on 14 April 1857 at Buckingham Palace, London. She was the fifth daughter and youngest of the nine children of the reigning British monarch, Queen Victoria, and her husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (later the Prince Consort). The birth caused controversy when it was announced that Queen Victoria would seek ...
In March 1861, Queen Victoria's mother Victoria, Duchess of Kent, died at Frogmore. The Queen broke down in grief and guilt over their estrangement at the beginning of her reign. Beatrice tried to console her mother by reminding her that the Duchess of Kent was "in heaven, but Beatrice hopes she will return". This comfort was significant because Qu...
Possible suitors
Although the Queen was set against Beatrice marrying anyone in the expectation that she would always stay at home with her, a number of possible suitors were put forward before Beatrice's marriage to Prince Henry of Battenberg. One of these was Napoléon Eugéne, the French Prince Imperial, son and heir of the exiled Emperor Napoleon III of France and his wife, Empress Eugénie. After Prussia defeated France in the Franco-Prussian War, Napoleon was deposed and moved his family to England in 1870...
Engagement and wedding
When Beatrice, after returning from Darmstadt, told her mother she planned to marry, the Queen reacted with frightening silence. Although they remained side by side, the Queen did not talk to her for seven months, instead communicating by note.Queen Victoria's behaviour, unexpected even by her family, seemed prompted by the threatened loss of her daughter. The Queen regarded Beatrice as her "Baby" – her innocent child – and viewed the physical sex that would come with marriage as an end to in...
After a short honeymoon, Beatrice and her husband fulfilled their promise and returned to the Queen's side. The Queen made it clear that she could not cope on her own and that the couple could not travel without her.Although the Queen relaxed this restriction shortly after the marriage, Beatrice and Henry travelled only to make short visits with hi...
Beatrice's life was overturned by the death of Queen Victoria on 22 January 1901. She wrote to the Principal of the University of Glasgow in March, "... you may imagine what the grief is. I, who had hardly ever been separated from my dear mother, can hardly realise what life will be like without her, who was the centre of everything." Beatrice's pu...
Beatrice was the shyest of all of Queen Victoria's children. However, because she accompanied Queen Victoria almost wherever she went, she became among the best known. Despite her shyness, she was an able actress and dancer as well as a keen artist and photographer. She was devoted to her children and was concerned when they misbehaved at school. T...
Titles and styles
1. 14 April 1857 – 23 July 1885: Her Royal HighnessThe Princess Beatrice 2. 23 July 1885 – 14 July 1917: Her Royal HighnessThe Princess Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg 3. 17 July 1917 – 26 October 1944: Her Royal HighnessThe Princess Beatrice
Honours
British honours 1. 1 January 1878: Order of the Crown of India 2. 8 January 1919: Dame Grand Cross of the British Empire 3. 12 June 1926: Dame Grand Cross of St John 4. 11 May 1937: Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order 5. Royal Order of Victoria and Albert 6. Royal Red Cross Foreign honours 1. Grand Cross of St. Catherine 2. 11 September 1875: Dame of the Order of Queen Saint Isabel 3. 25 April 1885: Dame of the Golden Lion 4. 27 May 1889: Dame of the Order of Queen Maria Luisa
Arms
In 1858, Beatrice and the three younger of her sisters were granted use of the royal arms, with an inescutcheon of the shield of Saxony and differenced by a label of three points argent. On Beatrice's arms, the outer points bore roses gules, and the centre a heart gules. In 1917, the inescutcheon was dropped by royal warrant from George V.
Ceremonial observed at Beatrice's wedding: "No. 25495". The London Gazette. 28 July 1885. p. 25495."Isle of Wight Beacon on Princess Beatrice". Archived from the original on 12 February 2009. Retrieved 14 February 2008.Beatrice del Regno Unito, Mrs Mapelli-Mozzi ( Beatrice Elizabeth Mary; Londra, 8 agosto 1988 ), è una principessa britannica, primogenita di Andrea, duca di York e di Sarah Ferguson; è la quinta nipote della regina Elisabetta II e di Filippo di Edimburgo, nonché nipote del re Carlo III. Beatrice è la sorella maggiore di Eugenia ed è nona ...
Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi (Beatrice Elizabeth Mary; born 8 August 1988) is a member of the British royal family. She is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York. She is a niece of King Charles III. Born fifth in line of succession to the British throne, she is now ninth.
e. Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Beatrice Leopoldine Victoria; 20 April 1884 – 13 July 1966) was a member of the British royal family, a male-line granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She later married into the Spanish royal family, and was the wife of Prince Alfonso de Orleans y Borbón, Infante of Spain, a first cousin of Alfonso ...
Baden was an Imperial Estate of the Holy Roman Empire and later one of the German states along the frontier with France, primarily consisting of territory along the right bank of the Rhine, opposite Alsace and the Palatinate .
