Re: Emerald brooch worn by Louise Mountbatten Archived Message
Posted by monica on August 28, 2012, 11:04 am, in reply to "Re: Emerald brooch worn by Louise Mountbatten"
http://www.royal-magazin.de/german/hessen/elisabeth-von-hessen-brosche.htm --Previous Message-- : : : Yes it certainly looks like it. : Thanks.--Previous Message-- : : : : --Previous Message-- : : Thank you Carlo for your comments which make : me want to add the following which brings to : mind some descendants we know today ! : : Princess Victoria of Hesse (Marchioness of : Milford Haven) with her greatgrandson Ludwig : Ernst Andreas of Hesse. Part of caption from : Queen Victoria's Family by Charlotte : Zeepvat: “ She saw her family through a : series of tragedies which started when she : was still a child, never losing her positive : outlook and interest in life. 'I should have : been the man of the family', was her own : opinion, and Meriel Buchanan, who knew the : Hesse family well, added: 'it is true that : her lack of personal vanity, her firm : handshake, her direct, sometimes abrupt, : manner, gave an almost masculine impression. : She was however a woman whose absolute : integrity seemed to shine out of her bright : blue eyes, whose clear-reasoning brain was : remarkable, whose honesty and singleness of : purpose made one feel that one could never : tell a lie or indulge in subterfuge or : evasion, a woman who had faced the many : sorrows life brought her with unflinching : courage, for whom it was possible to feel : nothing but respect and admiration.' “ : : : : --Previous Message-- : There are two comments I would like to make : on : Princess Victoria of Hesse as a person and : about her jewels: : 1) Princess Victoria was the one who : travelled as far as Beijing (China) to : identify her sister Grand Duchess Ella's : poor remains after she was killed by the : Bolsheviks in 1918. After another long : journey, Princess Victoria was present when : her sister's remains were interred in : Jerusalem. : : 2)Concerning the jewels, Princess Viktoria's : were not the only Hessian jewels to : disappear. Also the jewels of the main line : of the Hesse family were stolen during World : War II. Another cousin of Princess : Victoria's lost her jewels too in Russia: HM : Queen Marie of Romania. : : : : : :
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