But what of the children of her younger daughters, who stayed home? Princess Louise had a childless marriage to the Duke of Argyll; but both Princesses Helena and Beatrice had children with their German-born husbands.
I've read that the Battenberg grandchildren were baptized as Anglicans -- Princess Ena alone eventually leaving the Church of England for the Roman Catholic Church, in order to marry King Alfonso XIII of Spain.
So that leaves open one question: were Helena's children brought up as Anglicans, like the Battenberg children, or Lutherans, like the future Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Grand Duke Ernst of Hesse-Darmstadt?
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