Porphyria was another genetical illness in the british royal Family and it spread to Prussia through QV's oldest daughter Victoria who had that illness and passed it to her daughter Charlotte, who herself passed it to her daughter Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen.
The Hesse-Darmstadt line died out.
In 1937 Grandduke Georg Donatus (son of Ernst Ludwig) flew to England to attend the wedding of his younger brother Ludwig and Margaret Campbell. The plane crashed and Georg Donatus, his wife Cecilie and their two sons Alexander and Ludwig died. Their daughter...
When Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna tried to brestfeed her first daughter Olga. One of the first tries ended with the Tsarina brestfeeding the son of the wet-nurse and the wet-nurse feeding Olga.
Ludwig was born in 1837 and died 1892, his parents were Prince Karl of Hesse and Princess Elisabeth of Prussia. He married Queen Victoria's second daughter Alice. They had 7 children: Viktoria, Elisabeth, Irene, Ernst Ludwig, Friedrich Wilhelm, Alix and Marie.
Friedrich Wilhelm called Frittie...
Grandduke Ludwig with his family, his wife was Princess Alice (Queen Victoria's second daughter), the children are l-r: Elisabeth (later Grandduchess Sergei of Russia), Marie on Ludwig's arm, Ernst Ludwig (later Grandduke of Hesse), Alix (later Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia), Irene...
1. Grandduchess Anastasia Michailovna
2. Grandduchess Konstantin Nikolaievich with her children, l-r: Konstantin, Vera, Nikolai, Dmitri and Olga (the future Queen of Greece)
3. Vera, Nikolai, Konstantin and Olga
4. Konstantin's own family
From "The Camera and the Tsars"
The children of Tsar Alexander II.
1. Tsarevich Nikolai
2. Alexander (later Alexander III.)
3. Vladimir
4. Alexei
5. Maria
6. Sergei
7. Pavel, Maria and Sergei