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Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg

1887 - 1969

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Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena of Battenberg (24 October 1887 – 15 April 1969) was Queen of Spain as the wife of King Alfonso XIII from their marriage on 31 May 1906 until 14 April 1931, when the Spanish Second Republic was proclaimed. A Hessian princess by birth, she was a member of the Battenberg family, a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was the youngest granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Unlike other members of the Battenberg family, who were accorded the lower rank of Serene Highness, Victoria Eugenie was born with the rank of Highness due to a Royal Warrant issued in 1886 by Queen Victoria. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg is the 89th most popular companion (up from 107th in 2019), the 327th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 335th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Companion.

Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg was the youngest daughter of Prince Henry of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice of Great Britain. She married King Alfonso XIII of Spain in 1906.

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ranks 89 out of 784. Before her are Charlotte, Princess Royal, Frederica of Hanover, Berenice II of Egypt, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, Dinah, and Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon. After her are Hortense de Beauharnais, Rabia Bala Hatun, Isabella of France, Katharina von Bora, Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, and Sawda bint Zamʿa.

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Among people born in 1887, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ranks 20. Before her are Vidkun Quisling, Arthur Rubinstein, Wilhelm Canaris, Jozef Tiso, Leopold Ružička, and Juan Gris. After her are Leonard Bloomfield, James B. Sumner, Henry Moseley, Saint-John Perse, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Nadia Boulanger. Among people deceased in 1969, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ranks 21. Before her are Kliment Voroshilov, Allen Dulles, Saud of Saudi Arabia, Liu Shaoqi, Jan Palach, and Rocky Marciano. After her are Iskander Mirza, Brian Jones, Morihei Ueshiba, Jack Kerouac, Robert Taylor, and Vesto Slipher.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ranks 327 out of 8,785. Before her are Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1944), Tim Berners-Lee (1955), Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519), Frederick North, Lord North (1732), Francis Crick (1916), and Ben Kingsley (1943). After her are Anthony Eden (1897), Edmund Ironside (993), James Connolly (1868), Jeremy Irons (1948), Claude Auchinleck (1884), and John Herschel (1792).

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Among COMPANIONS In United Kingdom

Among companions born in United Kingdom, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ranks 17. Before her are Catherine Howard (1523), Elizabeth of York (1466), Mary Anne MacLeod Trump (1912), Mary Tudor, Queen of France (1496), Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901), and Charlotte, Princess Royal (1766). After her are Margaret Tudor (1489), Elizabeth Woodville (1437), Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (1982), Mordred (null), Joan of the Tower (1321), and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (1863).

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