Beatrice of the United Kingdom
1857 – 1944 · Generation XXXIV · House of Windsor
Beatrice of the United Kingdom (1857–1944). Married Henry of Battenberg in 1885. Victoria’s youngest child and constant companion; edited the Queen’s journals. Her father’s death in 1861 bound her ever closer to her mother, and by the 1870s she served as the queen’s secretary, taking dictation of her journal during illness. Rumoured matches — the French Prince Imperial, her widowed brother-in-law Louis of Hesse — came to nothing, and when she fell for Prince Henry of Battenberg in Darmstadt, Victoria would not speak to her for seven months. They married at Whippingham in 1885 on condition that they live with the queen, and had four children, among them Ena, later Queen of Spain. Henry died of malaria on the Ashanti expedition in 1896, and Beatrice succeeded him as Governor of the Isle of Wight. After 1901 she spent thirty years cutting her mother’s journals to a third of their length, destroying the originals as she went. Her son Maurice was killed at Ypres in 1914; she died at Brantridge Park in 1944.
Place in the family
- Beatrice of the United Kingdom was a daughter of Queen Victoria.
- Beatrice of the United Kingdom was the youngest of 9 children of Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Queen Victoria recorded in this archive.
One of 53 people of House of Windsor (from 1917) in this archive. The present house — it renamed itself Windsor in 1917, setting aside the German title Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Line of descent: Owen Tudor → Edmund Tudor → King Henry VII → Margaret Tudor → King James V of Scotland → Mary Queen of Scots → King James I → Elizabeth Stuart → Sophia of Hanover → King George I → King George II → Frederick Prince of Wales → King George III → Edward Duke of Kent → Queen Victoria → Beatrice of the United Kingdom.
Parents
- Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819 – 1861)
- Queen Victoria (1819 – 1901)
Siblings
- Victoria Princess Royal (1840 – 1901)
- King Edward VII (1841 – 1910)
- Alice of the United Kingdom (1843 – 1878)
- Alfred Duke of Edinburgh (1844 – 1900)
- Helena of the United Kingdom (1846 – 1923)
- Louise Duchess of Argyll (1848 – 1939)
- Arthur Duke of Connaught (1850 – 1942)
- Leopold Duke of Albany (1853 – 1884)
Partners
- Married Henry of Battenberg (1858 – 1896) in 1885
Life
- 1857 — Born
- 1885 — Married Henry of Battenberg
- 1944 — Died