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{{About|the daughter of Queen Victoria|the daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York|Princess Beatrice}}
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* [[Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke]]
* [[Victoria Eugenie, Queen of Spain]] 
* [[Lord Leopold Mountbatten]]
* [[Prince Maurice of Battenberg]]}}|full name=Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore|house=[[House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] (''until 1917'')<br />[[House of Windsor|Windsor]] (''from 1917'')|father=[[Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]|mother=[[Queen Victoria]]|birth_date={{Birth date|df=yes|1857|4|14}}|birth_place=[[Buckingham Palace]], London, England|death_date={{Death date and age|df=yes|1944|10|26|1857|4|14}}|death_place=[[Brantridge Park]], Sussex, England|burial_date=3 November 1944|burial_place=[[St George's Chapel]], [[Windsor Castle|Windsor]] <br/>27 August 1945<br/>[[St. Mildred's Church, Whippingham]]|signature=Princess Beatrice's signature.svg}}

'''Princess Beatrice''' (Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore; 14 April 1857 – 26 October 1944) was the fifth daughter and youngest child of [[Queen Victoria]] and [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]].<ref>Dennison, p. 2</ref>

Beatrice married [[Prince Henry of Battenberg]], the son of [[Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine]] and [[Julia von Hauke]] and brother-in-law of her niece [[Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine]] on the [[Isle of Wight]] on July 23, 1885. They had four children together named Alexander, Victoria, Leopold and Maurice.<ref>Dennison, p. 3</ref> 

Her husband Prince Henry died in 1896 of [[malaria]] while fighting in the [[Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War|Anglo-Asante War]]. Beatrice remained at her mother's side until her death in 1901. She died aged in 1944, at the age of 87.<ref>Quoted in Dennison, p. 3</ref>

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* [http://www.iwbeacon.com/The-Princess-of-the-Wight.aspx Isle of Wight Beacon on Princess Beatrice] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212134300/http://www.iwbeacon.com/The-Princess-of-the-Wight.aspx |date=2009-02-12 }}
* [http://www.royal.gov.uk/files/pdf/victoria.pdf Information about Queen Victoria's journals]
* [http://www.regiments.org/biography/royals/1857beat.htm Regiments page on Princess Beatrice] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116224626/http://www.regiments.org/biography/royals/1857beat.htm |date=2007-11-16 }}

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