- Daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Empress Augusta Victoria. Sister of Crown Prince Hohenzollern. Great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Aunt of Prinz Louis Ferdinand von Preussen. Great-aunt of Prinz Louis Ferdinand Junior von Preussen, Friedrich Wilhelm Prinz von Preußen, and Prinz Michael von Preussen. Grandmother of Sofía de Grecia, King Constantine II, and Princess Irene of Greece. Great-grandmother of Elena de Borbón, Cristina de Borbón, Crown Prince of Greece Pavlos, Prince Nikolaos, Theodora Greece, and King Felipe VI of Spain. Great-great-grandmother of Juan Urdangarín Borbón, Pablo Urdangarín Borbón, Miguel Urdangarín Borbón, Felipe Juan Froilán de Marichalar y Borbón, and Victoria Federica de Marichalar y Borbón.
- Have 5 children.
- Niece of Prince Henry of Prussia.
- On 8 November 1918, her husband was forced to abdicate his throne along with the other German kings, grand dukes, dukes, and princes, and the duchy of Brunswick was subsequently abolished. The next year, he was deprived of his British peerages under the Titles Deprivation Act 1917 as a result of his service in the German army during the war.[26].
- In 1965 she published her autobiography Life as Daughter of the Emperor, and thereafter several other books, including biographies of her mother and of her sister-in-law Cecilie, the last crown princess of Germany. It is however believed that her publisher Leonhard Schlüter served as her ghostwriter.[35].
- Regimentschefin (Regimental Chief) and Oberst à la suite (Honorary Colonel), 2. Leib-Husaren Regiment Königin Victoria von Preußen Nr. 2, ca. 1909.
- Grandmother of Sofía de Grecia, King Constantine II, and Princess Irene of Greece. Great-grandmother of Elena de Borbón, Cristina de Borbón, Crown Prince of Greece Pavlos, Prince Nikolaos, Theodora Greece, and King Felipe VI of Spain. Great-great-grandmother of Juan Urdangarín Borbón, Pablo Urdangarín Borbón, Miguel Urdangarín Borbón, Felipe Juan Froilán de Marichalar y Borbón, and Victoria Federica de Marichalar y Borbón.
- David Jones records in his prose-poem In Parenthesis a fragment of song from the Western Front - "I want Big Willie's luv-ly daughter" - implying (as Jones notes) "that the object of the British Expedition into France was to enjoy the charms of the Emperor's daughter".
- She is buried next to her husband in front of the Royal Mausoleum in the Berggarten at Herrenhausen Gardens in Hanover, which is the burial chapel of Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, and his wife[36] and, since his reburial after World War II, also of George I of Great Britain.
- The new duke and duchess of Brunswick moved into Brunswick Palace in the capital of Brunswick and began their family with the birth of their eldest son, Prince Ernest Augustus, less than a year after their wedding.[25] They had four further children: Prince George William (b. 1915), Princess Frederica (b. 1917), Prince Christian Oscar (b. 1919), and Prince Welf Henry (b. 1923).
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