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Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, also known as Mary Victoria Hamilton [1] (11 December 1850 – 14 May 1922), was a Scottish noblewoman who was the Hereditary Princess of Monaco by marriage to Albert, Hereditary Prince of Monaco.
Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante is a c.1792 portrait painting by the French artist Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. It depicts the English dancer and actress Emma, Lady Hamilton. [1] She is depicted as a Bacchante from Greek Mythology. [2] [3] She married Sir William Hamilton the British ambassador in Naples in 1791.
On 23 February 1843, she married the Scottish nobleman William Hamilton, Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale, the only son of the 10th Duke of Hamilton. [1] [2] The couple had two sons and one daughter: William (later 12th Duke of Hamilton), Charles (later 7th Earl of Selkirk and Lieutenant of 11th Hussars), and Lady Mary Victoria (later wed to Albert I, Prince of Monaco in 1869).
On 21 September 1869 at the Château de Marchais (which is still in the possession of the Grimaldi family today) in Champagne, Prince Albert was married to Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton (1850–1922), of Lanarkshire, Scotland, a daughter of the 11th Duke of Hamilton and his wife, Princess Marie Amelie of Baden.
Victoria Hamilton (born 5 April 1971) is an English actress. After training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art , Hamilton began her career in classical theatre, appearing in productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre .
Born in Baden-Baden, Louis II was the only child of Albert I, Prince of Monaco (1848–1922), and Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850–1922). His mother was a daughter of William Hamilton, 11th Duke of Hamilton and Princess Marie Amelie of Baden.
Lt. Lord Charles George Douglas-Hamilton (1847–1886), 11th Hussars, succeeded by special remainder as 7th Earl of Selkirk in 1885, died unmarried; Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton (1850–1922), married firstly Albert I, Prince of Monaco, latterly to Prince Tassilo Festetics de Tolna
Lady Victoria Alexandrina Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (1873–1938), whose chief sponsor at her christening was Queen Victoria, was married firstly in 1894 to William Lee Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket and had eight children by him, and secondly to Colonel Francis Powell Braithwaite CBE DSO.