Who was Queen Victoria’s last surviving child?

Beatrice was also the last of Queen Victoria’s children.

Princess Beatrice VA, CI, GCVO, GBE, RRC, GCStJ (Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore; 14 April 1857 – 26 October 1944), later Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

Over 66 years after the first, her older sister Alice, Beatrice was likewise the last of Queen Victoria’s children to pass away.

Beatrice’s early years were during Queen Victoria’s period of mourning following the passing of her husband on December 14, 1861.

The Queen began to rely on the company of her youngest daughter, whom she dubbed “Baby” throughout the most of her childhood, while her older sisters married and parted ways with their mother.

Beatrice, who was raised to live with her mother alone, eventually accepted her lot. The Queen was so adamantly opposed to her youngest daughter getting married that she would not even consider the idea.

Nevertheless, many suitors were put forward, including Louis Napoléon, Prince Imperial, the son of the exiled Emperor Napoleon III of France, and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, the widower of Beatrice’s older sister Alice.

She was attracted to the Prince Imperial and there was talk of a possible marriage, but he was killed in the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879.