Letter from Queen Victoria to President Andrew Johnson

Christian, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein, 1831-1917

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Prince Christian was born in Augustenburg Palace, Denmark on 22 January 1831 to Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg and Countess Louise Sophie of Danneskiold-Samsøe. He married Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, the daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and made their home at Frogmore House in the grounds of Windsor Castle....

Helena Augusta Victoria, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, 1846-1923

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Helena was a daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of the United Kingdom. When she married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein the match was politically awkward and caused a severe breach within the royal family; the Queen allowed the ceremony to take place at Windsor Castle, albeit in the Private Chapel rather than the grander St George's Chapel. Helena had a firm interest in nursing and was the founding chair of the Ladies' Committee of the British Red Cross in 1870, playing an activ...

Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, 1869-1931

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Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901

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Queen Victoria was the only child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She was born on May 24, 1819 at Kensington Palace in London and she became heir to the throne when her father died. In 1837, she became Queen at the age of 18. During the early part of her reign, she was influenced by two men: her first Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, and then her husband, Prince Albert, whom she married in 1840. Both men taught her much about how to be ...

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

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Andrew Johnson (b. December 29, 1808, Raleigh, North Carolina-d. July 31, 1875, Carter's Station, Tennessee) became the seventeenth president of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1808. He began his political career in Greenville, Tennessee in 1828. At the time of this letter he was the Democratic senator from Tennessee. Emerson Etheridge was born in Carrituck County, North Carolina. As a representative of Tennes...