Princess Victoria, Princess Royal (1840-1901)

Princess Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland, Princess Royal, was born on the 21st November 1840 to Prince Albert, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819-1861) and Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland (1819-1901) at Buckingham Palace. She married Prince Frederick Wiliam of Prussia (1831-1888) on the 25th January 1858 at St. James's Palace. He eventually became the Crown Prince of Prussia and then the Emperor of Germany in 1888. Together, they had eight children: Wilhelm (1859-1941), Charlotte (1860-1919), Heinrich (1862-1929), Sigismund (1864-1866), Victoria (1866-1929), Waldemar (1868-1979), Sophie (1870-1932) and Margaret (1872-1954). She died on the 5th August 1901 at Schloss Friedrichschof of breast cancer, aged 60