Prince Maurice of Battenberg KCVO, (Maurice Victor Donald; 3 October 1891 - 27 October 1914) was a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the extended British royal family, and the youngest grandchild of Queen Victoria. Prince Maurice of Battenberg was born at Balmoral Castle in 1891 and grew up in Great Britain. His elder sister, Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg married Alfonso XIII of Spain and was.
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Prince Maurice of Battenberg | mountbatten 1 DEC 2023 A tribute & memorial website to honour - Lord Louis MOUNTBATTEN, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma MOUNTBATTEN Birth Certificate 1917-1921: Death of Mountbatten's Father Meeting Edwina Ashley 1922: Marriage to Edwina Marriage Certificate Children 1932-1936: Abdication of Edward VIII HMS Kelly Grave of Prince Maurice of Battenberg On 27th October 1914, the youngest grandson of Queen Victoria, Prince Maurice of Battenberg was killed at Passchendaele. Kaiser Wilhelm sent a message of condolence to his British relatives through an intermediary - the Crown Princess of Sweden who, unsurprisingly, was another grandchild of Queen Victoria. Prince Maurice was the son of Prince Henry of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom He died unmarried and without issue. Prince Maurice was a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the extended British Royal Family, a grandson of Queen Victoria and her youngest grandchild. Origins Prince Alexander (1823-1888) was the third son of Grand Duke Louis II of Hesse and by Rhine and of Wilhelmina of Baden, yet it was openly rumoured that his biological father was actually Baron Augustus de Senarclens, his mother's chamberlain. [1]
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Death of a Prince. On 27 October 1914 at Zonnebeke in the Ypres Salient, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, grandson of Queen Victoria, first cousin of King George V and the German Emperor Wilhelm II was killed in action whilst serving with the 1 st Battalion, the King's Royal Rifle Corps. He was born at Balmoral on 3 October 1891, the youngest. Lives of the First World War Prince Maurice of Battenberg On 27th October 1914, the youngest grandson of Queen Victoria, Prince Maurice of Battenberg was killed at Passchendaele. Prince Maurice of Battenberg's haemophilia is disputed in light of his record as a second lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps. Feted for heroism during the Battle of the Marne and Mentioned in Dispatches for a valiant charge to secure a bridge, the prince was wounded by shrapnel while leading an attack at Zonnebeke in October 1914. Imperial War Graves Commission, the war dead and the burial of a royal body, 1914-32. | Historical Research | Oxford Academic Abstract. The mass deaths of British and imperial soldiers during the First World War created a crisis of commemoration. How could the bereaved come to terms wi Skip to Main Content Advertisement Journals Books Search Menu
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On this day 100 years ago, the Great War claimed the life of a young and popular member of the royal family - Prince Maurice of Battenberg. Maurice was the youngest son of Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg, and consequently the youngest grandchild of Queen Victoria. Prince Henry of Battenberg KG PC (Henry Maurice; 5 October 1858 - 20 January 1896), formerly Count Henry of Battenberg, was a morganatic descendant of the Grand Ducal House of Hesse. He became a member of the British royal family by marriage to Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, the youngest child of Queen Victoria.
Prince Maurice von Battenberg V Birth 3 Oct 1891 Crathie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Death 27 Oct 1914 (aged 23) Zonnebeke, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium Burial Ypres Town Cemetery Ypres (Ieper), Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium Plot I. B. Memorial ID 12736468 · View Source Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Memorials Prince Maurice of Battenberg was born on October 3, 1891, at Balmoral Castle, his grandmother's beloved home in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.He was the third son and the youngest of the four children of Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria's youngest child, and Prince Henry of Battenberg.The birth of a prince in Scotland was cause for great celebration.
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Prince Maurice of Battenberg 02.jpg 3,766 × 5,256; 5.37 MB. Prince Maurice of Battenberg by Pablo Béjar.jpg 321 × 400; 12 KB. Prince Maurice of Battenberg LCCN2014697950.jpg 4,192 × 5,741; 2.53 MB. Prince Maurice Victor Donald of Battenberg.jpg 611 × 800; 99 KB. Princess Beatrice with her children and son-in-law.jpg 497 × 612; 54 KB. Wednesday, October 26, 2022 Prince Maurice of Battenberg It was at Balmoral Castle where Princess Beatrice, youngest of Queen Victoria's nine children, gave birth to her fourth and last child, a son, on October 3, 1891.
