- Victoria was born on Easter Sunday at Windsor Castle in the presence of her maternal grandmother, Queen Victoria. She was christened in the Lutheran faith in the Green Drawing Room at Windsor Castle, in the arms of the Queen on 27 April. Her godparents were Queen Victoria, Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse (represented by Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine), King Edward VII, and Prince Heinrich of Hesse and by Rhine.
- Adopted Aunt of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna and Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich.
- Mother of Princess Alice of Battenberg, Queen Louise, George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, and Louis Mountbatten.
- 2nd Cousin of Tsar Nicholas II.
- Niece of King Edward VII.
- Sister-in-law of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, Prince Henry of Prussia (1862-1929), Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich and Tsar Nicholas II .
- Granddaughter of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria, Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Elisabeth of Prussia.
- Daughter of Grand Duchess Alice and Louis IV.
- Sister of Elizabeth Feodorovna, Princess Irene of Prussia, Ernest Louis, Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (1870 - 1873), Tsarina Alexandra, and Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine.
- 1st Cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Prince Henry of Prussia, Queen Marie of Romania, Queen Victoria Eugenia, King George V, Princess Alice. Prince Albert Victor, King George V, Louise, Princess Royal (20 February 1867 - 4 January 1931), Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom ( 6 July 1868 - 3 December 1935) , Dronning Maud (26 November 1869 - 20 November 1938) and Prince Alexander John of Wales (6 April 1871-7 April 1871).
- Prince Louis was forced to resign from the navy at the start of the war when his German origins became an embarrassment, and the couple retired for the war years to Kent House on the Isle of Wight, which Victoria had been given by her aunt Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll. Victoria blamed her husband's forced resignation on the Government "who few greatly respect or trust". She distrusted the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, because she thought him unreliable-he had once borrowed a book and failed to return it. Continued public hostility to Germany led King George V of the United Kingdom to renounce his German titles, and at the same time on 14 July 1917 Prince Louis and Victoria renounced theirs, assuming an anglicised version of Battenberg-Mountbatten-as their surname. Four months later Louis was re-ennobled by the King as Marquess of Milford Haven. During the war, Victoria's two sisters, Tsarina Alexandra and Elisabeth, were murdered in the Russian revolution, and her brother, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, was deposed. On her last visit to Russia in 1914, Victoria had driven past the very house in Yekaterinburg where Alix would be murdered. In January 1921, after a long and convoluted journey, Elisabeth's body was interred in Jerusalem in Victoria's presence. Alix's body was never recovered during Victoria's lifetime.
- 30 April 1884 - 14 July 1917: Her Grand Ducal Highness Princess Louis of Battenberg.
- 14 July - 7 November 1917: Lady Mountbatten.
- Further tragedy soon followed when Victoria's son, George, died of bone cancer the following year. Her granddaughter, Pamela Hicks, remembered her grandmother's tears. In World War II Victoria was bombed out of Kensington Palace, and spent some time at Windsor Castle with King George VI. Her surviving son (Louis) and two of her grandsons served in the Royal Navy, while her German relations fought with the opposing forces. She spent most of her time reading and worrying about her children; her daughter, Alice, remained in occupied Greece and was unable to communicate with her mother for four years at the height of the war. After the Allied victory, her son, Louis, was made Viscount Mountbatten of Burma. He was offered the post of Viceroy of India, but she was deeply opposed to his accepting, knowing that the position would be dangerous and difficult. He accepted anyway.
- She fell ill with bronchitis (she had smoked since the age of sixteen at Lord Mountbatten's home at Broadlands, Hampshire, in the summer of 1950. Saying "it is better to die at home", Victoria moved back to Kensington Palace, where she died on 24 September aged 87. She was buried four days later in the grounds of St. Mildred's Church, Whippingham on the Isle of Wight.
- With the help of her lady-in-waiting, Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden, Victoria wrote an unpublished memoir, held in the Mountbatten archive at the University of Southampton, which remains an interesting source for royal historians. A selection of Queen Victoria's letters to Victoria have been published with a commentary by Richard Hough and an introduction by Victoria's granddaughter, Patricia Mountbatten.
- Her early life was spent at Bessungen, a suburb of Darmstadt, until the family moved to the New Palace in Darmstadt when she was three years old. There, she shared a room with her younger sister, Elisabeth, until adulthood. She was privately educated to a high standard and was, throughout her life, an avid reader.
- 5 April 1863 - 30 April 1884: Her Grand Ducal Highness Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine.
- At family gatherings, Victoria had often met Prince Louis of Battenberg, who was her first cousin once removed and a member of a morganatic branch of the Hessian royal family. Prince Louis had adopted British nationality and was serving as an officer in the Royal Navy. In the winter of 1882, they met again at Darmstadt, and were engaged the following summer.
- Maternal grandmother of Prince Philip.
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