Victoria, Princess Royal
Victoria, Princess Royal
(Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa; 21 November 1840 – 5 August 1901) was German Empress and Queen of Prussia by marriage to German Emperor Frederick III.
She was the eldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and was created Princess Royal in 1841.
She was the mother of Wilhelm II, German Emperor.
Educated by her father in a politically liberal environment, Victoria was betrothed at the age of sixteen to Prince Frederick of Prussia and supported him in his views that Prussia and the later German Empire should become a constitutional monarchy on the British model.
Criticised for this attitude and for her English origins, Victoria suffered ostracism by the Hohenzollerns and the Berlin court.
This isolation increased after the rise to power of Otto von Bismarck (one of her most staunch political opponents) in 1862.
Victoria was empress for only a few months, during which she had opportunity to influence the policy of the German Empire.
Frederick III died in 1888 – just 99 days after his accession – from laryngeal cancer and was succeeded by their son William II, who had much more conservative views than his parents.
After her husband's death, she became widely known as Empress Frederick (German: "Kaiserin Friedrich").
The empress dowager then settled in Kronberg im Taunus, where she built Friedrichshof, a castle, named in honour of her late husband.
Increasingly isolated after the weddings of her younger daughters, Victoria died of breast cancer on 5 August 1901, not long after her mother's death on 22 January 1901.
The correspondence between Victoria and her parents has been preserved almost completely: 3,777 letters from Queen Victoria to her eldest daughter, and about 4,000 letters from the empress to her mother are preserved and catalogued.
These give a detailed insight into the life of the Prussian court between 1858 and 1900.
Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen
Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe- Meiningen( 23 September 1853 – 22 February 1923) was the only daughter of Georg II, Duke of Saxe- Meiningen, by his first wife, Princess Charlotte of Prussia.
She was notable as a musician and composer.
One of her most famous works is" Romanze" in F major for clarinet and piano.
Robert William Lowry (British Army officer)
Lieutenant- General Robert William Lowry( 20 March 1824- 8 June 1905) was a British Army officer who became colonel of the Royal Berkshire Regiment( Princess Charlotte of Wales's).
Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1831–1855)
Princess Charlotte of Prussia( 21 June 1831 – 30 March 1855), was by birth a Princess of Prussia and member of the House of Hohenzollern and by marriage Hereditary Princess of Saxe- Meiningen.
She was the eldest child and daughter of Prince Albert of Prussia( younger son of Frederick William III of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg- Strelitz) and his first wife Princess Marianne of the Netherlands( daughter of William I of the Netherlands and Wilhelmine of Prussia).
Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia
Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia( 28 August 1827 – 12 May 1894), was the third of five daughters of Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia( youngest son of Emperor Paul I and Princess Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) and Princess Charlotte of Württemberg( eldest child of Prince Paul of Württemberg and Princess Charlotte of Saxe- Hildburghausen).
Princess Charlotte of Prussia
Princess Charlotte of Prussia (Viktoria Elisabeth Auguste Charlotte; 24 July 1860 – 1 October 1919) was Duchess Consort of Saxe-Meiningen as the wife of Bernhard III, the duchy's last ruler.
Born at the "Neues Palais" in Potsdam, she was the second child and eldest daughter of Prince Frederick of Prussia, a member of the House of Hohenzollern who became Crown Prince of Prussia in 1861 and German Emperor in 1888.
Through her mother Victoria, Princess Royal, Charlotte was the eldest granddaughter of the British monarch Queen Victoria and her consort Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Princess Charlotte was a difficult child and indifferent student, with a nervous disposition.
Her relationship with her demanding mother was strained.
As she grew older, Charlotte developed a penchant for spreading gossip and causing trouble.
Eager to escape from parental control, at age seventeen, she married Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Meiningen in 1878.
Her husband's weak-willed personality had little effect on her.
Known for spreading gossip and her eccentric personality, Princess Charlotte enjoyed Berlin society while frequently leaving her only child, Princess Feodora, in the care of family members.
Charlotte and Feodora, in turn, also had a difficult relationship.
Charlotte's brother succeeded their father as Emperor Wilhelm II in 1888, increasing her social influence.
Throughout her brother's reign, she was known for her mischief-making, and spent her life in between bouts of illness, in frivolous and extravagant pursuits.
She became Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen in 1914, only for her husband to lose his title with the end of World War I in 1918.
Charlotte died the following year of a heart attack in Baden-Baden.
She had suffered from a lifetime of ill-health.
Most historians now believe she had porphyria, a genetic disease that afflicted other members of the British Royal Family.
Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel
Charlotte of Hesse- Kassel( 20 November 1627 – 26 March 1686) was the consort of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine and mother of Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate.
Charles Hesse
Charles Hesse( c. 1791 – 24 February 1832) was a Prussian- born officer of the British Army, notable for his liaison with the young Princess Charlotte of Wales.
Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia
Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia( 24 June 1825 – 10 August 1844) was the youngest daughter and fourth child of Tsar Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia, and his wife, Princess Charlotte of Prussia.
She was a younger sister of Tsar Alexander II of Russia.
Princess Barbara of Prussia
Princess Barbara of Prussia (2 August 192031 May 1994) was the only daughter and elder child of Prince Sigismund of Prussia and Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg.
She was a great-granddaughter of Frederick III, German Emperor and a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
On 17 September 1952 she was legally adopted by her paternal grandmother, Princess Irene of Prussia ("née" Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine), a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

Question: Why did Princess Charlotte Of Prussia's mother die?
Answer: breast cancer