![]() ![]() She received her first name, which was taken from the Greek word for “peace”, because she was born at the end of the Austro-Prussian War. Like her younger sister, the Empress, Irene was a carrier of the hemophilia gene, and Irene would lose her sisters Alix and Elisabeth in Russia to the Bolsheviks. Her siblings included Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, wife of Prince Louis of Battenberg, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and (Alix) Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, wife of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia. The SS Prinzessin Irene, a liner of the North German Lloyd was named after her. She was the wife of Prince Heinrich of Prussia, a younger brother of Wilhelm II, German Emperor and her first cousin. Her paternal grandparents were Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Elizabeth of Prussia. ![]() Her maternal grandparents were Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Princess Irene Luise Marie Anne of Hesse and by Rhine (J– November 11, 1953) was the third child and third daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine. Noticing after some minutes that the newborn remained silent, Martin and the midwife Fräulein Stahl worked frantically to revive the prince finally, despite the disapproval of those present, Stahl spanked the newborn vigorously until “a weak cry escaped his pale lips”.įrom the Emperor’s Desk: In this entry I will only cover her birth until marriage. After completing the delivery, and despite realising the newborn prince was hypoxic, Martin turned his attention to the unconscious Victoria. Observing the infant’s legs to be raised upwards and his left arm likewise raised upwards and behind his head, Martin “carefully eased out the Prince’s legs”.ĭue to the “narrowness of the birth canal”, he then forcibly pulled the left arm downwards, tearing the brachial plexus, then continued to grasp the left arm to rotate the infant’s trunk and free the right arm, likely exacerbating the injury. Observing her contractions to be insufficiently strong, Martin administered a dose of ergot extract, and at 2:45 pm saw the infant’s buttocks emerging from the birth canal, but noticed the pulse in the umbilical cord was weak and intermittent.ĭespite this dangerous sign, Martin ordered a further heavy dose of chloroform so he could better manipulate the infant. As mild anaesthesia did not alleviate her extreme labour pains, resulting in her “horrible screams and wails”, Clark finally administered full anaesthesia. Upon examining Victoria, Wegner realised the infant was in the breech position gynaecologist Eduard Arnold Martin was then sent for, arriving at the palace at 10 am on January 27.Īfter administering ipecac and prescribing a mild dose of chloroform, which was administered by Victoria’s personal physician Sir James Clark, Martin advised Fritz the unborn child’s life was endangered. August Wegner, the family’s personal physician, was summoned. Shortly before midnight on January 26, 1859, Wilhelm’s mother experienced labour pains, followed by her water breaking, after which Dr. ![]() At the time of his birth, he was also sixth in the line of succession to the British throne, after his maternal uncles and his mother. Upon the death of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV in January 1861, Wilhelm’s paternal grandfather (the elder Wilhelm) became King of Prussia, and the two-year-old Wilhelm became second in the line of succession to Prussia.Īfter 1871, Wilhelm also became second in the line to the newly created German Empire, which, according to the constitution of the German Empire, was ruled by the Prussian King. Friedrich Wilhelm IV had been left permanently incapacitated by a series of strokes, and his younger brother Prince Wilhelm was acting as regent. His father was Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia (“Fritz” – the future Emperor Friedrich III).Īt the time of his birth, his granduncle, Friedrich Wilhelm IV, was king of Prussia. Wilhelm was born in Berlin on January 27, 1859-at the Crown Prince’s Palace-to Victoria, Princess Royal “Vicky”, the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and her husband Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert Janu– June 4, 1941) was the last German Emperor (German: Kaiser) and King of Prussia, reigning from Juntil his abdication on November 9, 1918. ![]()
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