TWO 1861 CDVs PRINCESS HELENA AUGUSTA VICTORIA OF THE UK BY MAYALL USP63 For Sale

TWO 1861 CDVs PRINCESS HELENA AUGUSTA VICTORIA OF THE UK BY MAYALL USP63There is a date of March 1, 1861 along with Mayall Fecit on the lower right of the photos.
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Princess Helena(Helena Augusta Victoria; 25 May 1846 – 9 June 1923), laterPrincess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, was the third daughter and fifth child ofQueen VictoriaandPrince Albert.

Helena was educated by private tutors chosen by her father and his close friend and adviser,Baron Stockmar. Her childhood was spent with her parents, travelling between a variety of royal residences inBritain. The intimate atmosphere of the royal court came to an end on 14 December 1861, when her father died and her mother entered a period of intense mourning. Afterwards, in the early 1860s, Helena began a flirtation withPrince Albert's German librarian,Carl Ruland. Although the nature of the relationship is largely unknown, Helena's romantic letters to Ruland survive.After her mother discovered the flirtations, in 1863, she dismissed Ruland, who returned to his nativeGermany. Three years later, on 5 July 1866, Helena married the impoverishedPrince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. The couple remained in Britain, in calling distance of the queen, who liked to have her daughters nearby. Helena, along with her youngest sister,Princess Beatrice, became the queen's unofficial secretary. However, afterQueen Victoria's deathon 22 January 1901, Helena saw relatively little of her surviving siblings.

Helena was the most active member of the royal family, carrying out an extensive programme of royal engagements. She was also an active patron of charities, and was one of the founding members of theBritish Red Cross. She was founding president of theRoyal School of Needlework, and president of theWorkhouse Infirmary Nursing Associationand theRoyal British Nurses' Association. As president of the latter, she was a strong supporter ofnurse registrationagainst the advice ofFlorence Nightingale.In 1916 she became the first member of her family to celebrate her 50thwedding anniversary, but her husband died a year later. Helena outlived him by six years, dying aged 77 in 1923.___See photos for color, size and condition details. Note lighting variations and reflections may alter colors of item(s) in photos.

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