Princess Helena of the United Kingdom

Helena Augusta Victoria was born 25 May 1846, raised between royal residences under tutors selected by her father Prince Albert and Baron Stockmar. That intimate world shattered when Albert died in December 1861, leaving Victoria in deep mourning. In the early 1860s Helena exchanged romantic letters with Carl Ruland, her father's German librarian, until Victoria discovered the affair and dismissed him in 1863. Three years later, on 5 July 1866, she married the impoverished Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and stayed in Britain within reach of her mother, becoming — with her youngest sist…