Princess Beatrice (1856-1944)

Susan Durant (1827-1873)

Marble

c.1866

Albert Memorial Chapel, Windsor

Princess Beatrice was Victoria and Albert's ninth and last child, and fifth daughter. Seen here in one of the medallion portraits of the royal family in the nave, she would later marry Prince Henry of Battenberg, and is remembered for having edited and transcribed her mother's diaries, filling 111 books in the process (see Ridley 479).

Text and photograph, cropped from one taken of Plate XLIX in the Davisons' book, by Jacqueline Banerjee. [Click on the image to enlarge it, and mouse over the text for links.]

By kind permission of the British Library.