Kaiserin Friedrich

Kaiserin Friedrich, as she became known, was born HRH the Princess Royal Victoria of the British Empire, eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1840. In 1851 she married Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia. "Vicky" adored her husband but found virtually everything else in Germany, including her in-laws and children deplorable or disappointing. Her dream was to make the German Empire a more liberal, British-style constitutional monarchy. Because of this she was opposed by Kaiser Wilhelm I, Prince Bismarck and the noble-military establishment. In 1888 her husband became Kaiser Friedrich III but he was already sick with throat cancer and died 99 days later. Her son became Kaiser Wilhelm II, who treated her almost as an enemy when Friedrich had just died and their relationship improved little after that. With her autocratic and bombastic son on the throne she saw her vision come to nothing. She died of breast cancer in 1901 and was buried next to her husband in the Prussian royal crypt at Potsdam.

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[fantasyfan2010]

thankyou . these are beautifull images. I never knew anything about Victoria's daughters. INteresting information about her life . NOt common knowlege. there is so much about queen Victoria but her daughters and all the other royals are just as facinating because of the very different lives that they led.

[fantasyfan2010]

thankyou . these are beautifull images. I never knew anything about Victoria's daughters.

[grailmaiden]

fascinating, compelling and alluring aesthetics - I simply love these images!

thank you christabella for posting it to me

colleen

[lochmabon]

@winterweib

It is interesting how she also worked so hard, even on her deathbed, to make sure those letters from her mother weren't destroyed.

[winterweib]

@dopey45p She wasn't disliked, she disliked them. This is a fact and everyone who read her letters to her mother knows this. Her mother told her again and again not to be so mean to her children.

[winterweib]

@likudgirl I am happy that you were so kind and wrote that comment. Thank you, dear.

[likudgirl]

@talmadge1926 Wilhelm II was NOT a monster.  Everyone is quick to characterize him as such, but when you dig down and do the research for yourself, it is clear that he was a brilliant man, who suffered from terrible insecurity, which stemmed largely from being half English and half German.

[dopey45p]

the empress frederick was actually disliked by her three eldest children. wilhelm and her were too alike, so they did not get alone. henry took the cue from wilhelm and charlotte, she was just plain miserable and nasty. she used her mother, much preferring social butterflying them being a decent member of the family. 

[QueenComment]

@talmadge1926 From what I have read she was actually very harsh and critical with her 3 eldest children.

[talmadge1926]

Poor Vicky - a lively and intelligent woman and a devoted mother - her life after her marriage (apart from her devoted love of Frederick and her children) became a misery. Mistrusted and disliked for being English and having "liberal" views, suffering from the sneers and. suffocating protocol of the Prussian Court and the later insults piled on her by Bismarck and that monster of a son Wilhelm she died in slow agony - her servants asking for rooms further away as her screams kept them awake!