Grand Duke George, 31, great-grandson of Queen Victoria; his 26-year-old wife,the former Princess Cecile of Greece & Denmark and cousin of England’s Duchess of Kent; their two young sons, Prince ...

CRONBERG, Aug. 5. - The Dowager Empress Frederick died at 6:15 o'clock this evening. The end was unexpectedly sudden. At 4 o'clock the physicians had reported no change in the patient's condition.

The first is Queen Victoria, “Grandmother of Europe”: Alexandra Feodorovna (1872-1918), Nicholas’s wife, was Victoria’s granddaughter. Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, 1911.

Victoria had been hoping for some time to return home to Spain and seized his opportunity when a position arose in the household of the Spanish Dowager Empress Maria.

This Requiem Mass is believed to have been written and performed to mark the death of his employer, the Dowager Empress Maria in 1603. Victoria returned to Spain from Italy to work as Chaplain for ...