Her Imperial Majesty Empress Victoria Feodorovna |
Birth: | Saturday | November 13, 1876 | November 25, 1876 | at 6 p.m. in the Palace of St. Antonio, La Valetta, Malta. Father: His Royal Highness Prince Alfred of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Saxony. Mother: Her Imperial Highness the Pious Lady Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna. Their second daughter was born Her Royal Highness Princess VICTORIA MELITA of Edinburgh, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duchess of Saxony. |
Christening: | Monday | December 20, 1876 | January 1, 1877 |
in the Palace of St. Antonio, La Valetta, Malta.
Godparents: (incomplete list) Her Majesty The Queen Victoria (paternal grandmother) |
1st marriage: | Thursday | April 7, 1894 | April 19, 1894 | in Schloss Ehrenburg, Coburg, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Lutheran and civil). Bridegroom: His Royal Highness Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine. |
Divorce: | Saturday | December 8, 1901 | December 21, 1901 | Hessian court granted the divorce of the civil marriage on the grounds of «invincible mutual antipathy». |
2nd marriage: | Sunday | September 25, 1905 | October 8, 1905 | in family Chapel of Count Adlerberg home, Tegernsee, Bavaria. Bridegroom: His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich. |
Conversion: | Wednesday | January 17. 1907 | January 30.1907 | in the St.Alexaner Nevsky Court church in Coburg converted from Evangelical faith into Orthodoxy. |
Death: | Monday | February 18, 1936 | March 2, 1936 | at 12¼ a.m. at Amorbach, Germany. |
Burial: | Friday | February 22, 1936 | March 6, 1936 | in Ducal Family Vault, Coburg, Germany. |
Tuesday | February 22, 1995 | March 7, 1995 | Re-buried in Grand Ducal Vault of St. Peter and St. Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg. |