Discovering the secret life of Queen Victoria since 2018
During the First World War Princess Victoria Melita - daughter of Prince Alfred and granddaughter of Queen Victoria- worked as a nurse for the Red Cross and helped organise the motorised ambulance unit. When Victoria returned to St Petersburg in February 1917 following a trip to Romania, fears had began rising over the stability of… Continue reading The later life and death of Princess Victoria Melita
On 25th November 1876, Princess Victoria Melita was born at San Anton Palace in Malta, where her father had been stationed in the Navy. She was the third child of Prince Arthur Duke of Edinburgh (later, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) and his wife, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna Russia. That evening Queen Victoria received a… Continue reading The life of Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha