The Hesse-Cassel family

[grandduchessella]

I don't know. If it's Miss and not Mrs Cochrane then it is probably Minnie Cochrane who was a friend of Alix Hesse's in her youth. She was also lady-in-waiting to Princess Beatrice--even before Beatrice was married. She was very close to many members of the extended Royal Family.

[Eric_Lowe]

Yes. You got it. It was Minnie Cochrane.

[Dru]

The Winterhalter portrait of Princess Anna, biggest I've ever seen it.  Download for full size.

[Marc]

The portrait is breathtaking...I have seen it in person two months ago in Schloss Fasanerie,which is btw,amazing...

[Eric_Lowe]

Captured Anna's sad beauty perfectly. It is why Franz Josef fell for her...

[Dru]

Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel...



...and his second wife, Princess Anna of Prussia, courtesy of the Royal Collection.

[Eric_Lowe]

Landgravine Anna was friends with Clara Schumann.

[Dru]

Eldest son of Friedrich-Wilhelm and Anna of Hesse-Kassel, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Nicholas Karl.  Courtesy of the Royal Collection.


Does anyone have a larger, clearer copy of this photo of Friedrich-Wilhelm and Anna?

[Dru]

Leopold of Anhalt and Elisabeth of Hesse-Kassel.

[Dru]

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse-Kassel, eldest daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm and Anna.

[Anna Francisevna]

For some reason, I am very intereted in this couple, but I cannot seem to find any information their turning down the throne of Finland wikipedia pages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Frederick_Charles_of_Hesse and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Margaret_of_Prussia).  Although An Uncommon Woman  the Empress Frederick Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm by Hannah Pakula is about the English empress of Germany Victoria and her children, it just mentions her daughter's marriage to Friedrich, not so much about the throne of Finland.  What did the Finnish people think about this?  Does anybody have any information about this?  According to the wikipedia page, Friedrich was elected to be the king of Finland but turned away when Germany lost WWI. 

[Превед]

For some reason, I am very intereted in this couple, but I cannot seem to find any information their turning down the throne of Finland

See http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suomen_kuningaskuntahanke. Learn Finnish - or use Google Translate :-)

[Kalafrana]

It is not really surprising about the Finnish throne in biographies of the Empress Frederick, since she was long dead by then.

You might find something in books about Mannerheim.

Ann

[Dru]

http://adini-nikolaevna.tumblr.com/image/147165128305

Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel.

[Dru]

http://adini-nikolaevna.tumblr.com/image/106532396625

The Winterhalter portrait of Anna, at long last in good size and quality!