VICTORIA Adelaide Mary Louisa, Princess Royal of England and Princess Royal of Prussia (1840-1901) Three albumen prints mounted on cardboard, featuring reproductions of paintings. Two angels and a Deploration of Christ. All three are annotated by Victoria. Two are marked "V. Pcesse R de Prusse" and one "Pour le Baron de Triqueti de la part de la Princesse Royale de Prusse 1864". Carton sizes: 31.5 x 21.3 cm and 21.3 x 31.5 cm Henry de Triqueti stayed in Berlin in 1864 and exchanged ideas with the Princess about the first plans for decorating Prince Albert's memorial chapel. The gift of these three photographic prints, kept by the sculptor, was undoubtedly part of the iconographic program for the decoration of the Wolsey chapel. Provenance: Château du Perthuis. Note: The eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, "Vicky" benefited from a careful but liberal upbringing, with a very active father, games and handicraft workshops. Married to Kronprinz Frederick of Prussia, Victoria left the UK for Prussia in 1858. In a Germany under construction and a Prussia that was rigid, Anglophobic and war-mongering, life at Court was particularly burdensome for the young princess. She could count on the support of her husband, "Freddy", future Emperor of Germany, and her father, Prince Albert, with whom she was very close. The death of Prince Albert in 1861 was to have a devastating effect on her. She did everything in her power to make her father's memory sacred, and was heavily involved in all memorial projects. It was she who commissioned Henry de Triqueti to decorate the Wolsey Chapel. The trio they formed with Susan D. Durant was highly productive. Artistic and epistolary exchanges were important, and reflected a great cultural richness. Bismarck's rise to power and the war between Prussia and France made exchanges between the sculptor and his patron and friend increasingly difficult. Despite this, Victoria remained close to Triqueti until the completion of the Wolsey Chapel and the artist's death. As far as she was able, she tried to protect the sculptor and his studio throughout the conflict between France and Prussia. The same was true of Kronprinz Frederick, who, asked by Baron de Triqueti to protect his fellow citizens in the Loiret region from Prussian exactions, requested that sanctions against the population be applied "softly". Brought to the head of the German Empire in 1888, following the death of Wilhelm I, Emperor Frederick III and Empress Victoria reigned for just 99 days, enough time to show Europe in turmoil that another path was possible for the Germany of Bismarck and the future Kaiser Wilhelm II.