#prussian royal family

“I feel like I’m entering the Fatherland,” Charlotte told the mourners as her carriage crossed the Russian border. The Cossack convoy that met her burst out “Hurrah!”, the princess told them in Russian: “Thank you, guys.” Then she turned to the Cossack colonel: “Please order them to shout again, I like it…” She sought to speak Russian with those courtiers who did not know foreign languages. However, despite the fact that her teacher was the poet Vasily Zhukovsky, Charlotte did not learn Russian until the end of her life.

Princess Sophia of Prussia, mids 1870s.

Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia, c. 1878.

First cousin of Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Albany.

Kaiser Wilhelm II and his daughter, Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia in Corfu, 1911.

Prince Joachim of Prussia

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Prussia