维多利亚·阿德莱德·玛丽·路易丝公主

维多利亚长公主1840年11月21日生于伦敦白金汉宫。她的母亲是在位的英国君主维多利亚女王，父亲是艾伯特亲王。

1851年，维多利亚遇见她后来的丈夫普鲁士的威廉亲王和奥古斯塔王妃之子，普鲁士王位的第三位继承人腓特烈·威廉亲王(1831年-1888年)。那时候他和他的父母亲被邀请到伦敦参加维多利亚女王和艾伯特亲王的一个展览会开幕典礼。

维多利亚和腓特烈有八个孩子:

威廉王子, 即德国末代皇帝威廉二世 1859年1月27日-1941年6月4日 第一任妻子奥古斯塔·维多莉亚公主(1858年10月22日-1921年4月11日)and had issue;第二任妻子Princess Hermine Reuss zu Greiz (1887年12月17日-1947年8月7日

夏洛特公主 1860年7月24日-1919年10月1日 嫁于萨克逊-迈宁根公爵贝哈德三世(1851年4月1日- 1928年1月16日)

海因里希王子 1862年8月14日-1929年4月20日 娶黑森和莱茵的艾琳公主 (1866年7月11日-1953年11月11日)为妻; and had issue.

西吉斯孟王子 1864年9月15日-1866年6月18日

维多莉亚公主 1866年4月12日-1929年11月13日 第一任丈夫1890年11月19日嫁绍姆堡-利普的阿道夫亲王(1859年7月20日-1916年7月9日);第二任丈夫Alexander Zoubkov (1901年9月25日-1936年1月28日).

瓦尔德马王子 1868年2月10日-1879年3月27日

索菲公主 1870年6月14日-1932年1月13日 嫁给希腊国王康斯坦丁一世 (1868年8月2日-1923年1月11日)

玛格丽特公主 1872年4月22日-1954年1月22日 嫁给黑森的卡尔·冯·黑森-卡塞尔亲王 (1868年5月1日-1940年5月28日)

1861年1月, 腓特烈·威廉四世去世，他的弟弟威廉一世即位，腓特烈亲王被立为普鲁士王储(Crown Prince of Prussia),维多利亚成为王储妃(Crown Princess). The new Crown Prince and Princess, however, were politically isolated; their liberal and Anglophile views clashed with the authoritarian rule of the 普鲁士首相, 俾斯麦.

During the three Wars of German Unification u2013 the 1864 Prussian-Danish War, the 1866 Austro-Prussian War, and the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War u2013 Victoria and Friedrich strongly identified with the cause of Prussia and the North German Confederation. Their sympathies created a rift among Queen Victoria’s extended family, since Victoria’s younger brother, the Prince of Wales, was married to Princess Alexandra of Denmark, the elder daughter of Christian IX of Denmark, who was also reigning duke of the disputed territories of Schleswig and Holstein. At Versailles on 18 January 1871, the victorious princes of the North German Confederation proclaimed a German Empire with King Wilhelm I of Prussia as the hereditary German Emperor (’’Deutscher Kaiser’’) with the style ’’Imperial and Royal Majesty (Kaiserliche und Königliche Majestät)’’; Fritz and Vicky became Crown Prince and Crown Princess of the German Empire with the style ’’Imperial and Royal Highness (Kaiserliche und Königliche Hoheit)’’.

On the death of his father on 9 March 1888, the Crown Prince ascended the throne as the Emperor Friedrich III and Victoria adopted the title and style of ’’Her Imperial and Royal Majesty’’ The German Empress. Friedrich III, however, was terminally ill with throat cancer and died after reigning 99 days. From then on she was known simply as The Empress Friedrich (rumour had it that her son, now Kaiser Wilhelm II, disliked his mother so much he had her styled by this rather odd masculine looking title as opposed to a more feminie "Empress Victoria" or Dowager Empress).

The widowed Victoria lived in retirement at Friedrichshof, a country house she built near Kronberg. Politically, she remained a liberal and because of this, her already strained relationship with her son Emperor Wilhelm II deteriorated. In Berlin, Victoria established schools for the higher education of girls and for nurses’ training. She patronized the arts and learning, becoming one of the organizers of the 1872 Industrial Art Exhibition.

Throughout her married life and widowhood, Victoria kept in close touch with other members of the British Royal Family, particularly her eldest brother, the future Edward VII. She maintained a regular correspondence with her mother. According to the ’’Royal Encyclopaedia’’, some 3,777 letters from Queen Victoria to her eldest daughter have been catalogued, as well as more than 4,000 from daughter to mother.

Victoria died of cancer of the spine at Friedrichshof in August 1901, eight months after the death of her mother Queen Victoria. She was interred next to her husband at the royal mausoleum of Friedenskirche at Potsdam on 13 August.