In 1912, Ernest Augustus, the wealthy heir-apparent to the title of Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, came to the Berlin court to thank Emperor Wilhelm for having Crown Prince Wilhelm and Prince Eitel Friedrich attend the funeral of his brother, Prince George William. The princess's confirmation took place at Friedenskirche in Potsdam on 18 October 1909. For a period of one week in May 1911, Victoria Louise traveled to England aboard the royal yacht Hohenzollern with her parents, where they visited their cousin George V, for the unveiling of a statue of Queen Victoria in front of Buckingham Palace. In 1905, the princess studied music with concert pianist Sandra Droucker. The family resided at Homburg Castle, and Victoria Louise and Joachim would often visit their cousins – the children of the Prussian princesses Margaret and Sophia – at nearby Kronberg Castle. His ideas, his opinions on men and things are persistently quoted by her." Anne later noted that the "warlike" emperor "unbends to a considerable extent when in the bosom of his family," and is the "dominating force of his daughter's life. In 1902, her English governess, Anne Topham, observed in their first meeting that the nine-year-old princess was friendly, energetic, and always quarreling with her next eldest brother, Prince Joachim. According to her eldest brother Crown Prince Wilhelm, Victoria Louise was "the only one of us who succeeded in her childhood in gaining a snug place" in their father's heart. She enjoyed being the center of attention, and was her father's favourite. Vovk writes that Victoria Louise was intelligent like her paternal grandmother Empress Frederick, stately and dignified like her mother, but imperious and willful like her father. Victoria Louise and Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick (before 1918) Through her daughter Queen Frederica of Greece, Princess Victoria Louise was the maternal grandmother of Queen Sophia of Spain and Constantine II of Greece. Shortly after the wedding, Victoria Louise became the Duchess of Brunswick by marriage. Her 1913 wedding to Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover was the largest gathering of reigning monarchs in Germany since German unification in 1871, and one of the last great social events of European royalty before the First World War began fourteen months later. Through her father she was a great-granddaughter of both Emperor Wilhelm I and Queen Victoria. Victoria Louise of Prussia ( German: Viktoria Luise Adelheid Mathilde Charlotte 13 September 1892 – 11 December 1980) was the only daughter and the last child of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. German: Viktoria Luise Adelheid Mathilde Charlotte Ernest Augustus, Hereditary Prince of BrunswickĮnglish: Victoria Louise Adelaide Matilda Charlotte.
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