On This Day In History . 19 November 1927 . Princess Viktoria of Prussia married Alexander Zoubkoff . ◼ Despite the strong disapproval of her brothers & sisters, Viktoria married Alexander Zoubkoff (b.25 September 1901 – d.28 January 1936), a Russian refugee described as a "dancer", who was 35 years her junior. . ◼ The wedding took place 36 years to the day of her first wedding to Prince Adolf Schaumburg-Lippe. . ◼ By this time her finances were in a precarious state, & Zoubkoff proceeded to squander much of the little money that remained on his own private amusements, rarely returning to the matrimonial home. Eventually Viktoria was obliged to call in the receivers & to sell off the contents of the Schaumburg Palace by auction, the sale being conducted by the Cologne auctioneers M. Lempertz. The sale attracted far less interest than had been anticipated, & The Times described much of the bidding as "spiritless"; it was estimated that the proceeds from the auction would have covered only one-third of her debts (which were reported to have been 900,000 marks, or £45,000 sterling). . ◼ After leaving the Schaumburg Palace, she moved into a single furnished room in the Bonn suburb of Mehlem. She was on the point of divorcing Zoubkoff on the grounds that his behaviour had resulted in his expulsion from Germany, he was unable to maintain her, & that "conjugal relations did not exist"., but only a few days after this announcement became public she fell seriously ill with pneumonia, dying in a Bonn hospital on 13 November 1929. . . 👑 Princess Viktoria of Prussia (born.12 April 1866 – died.13 November 1929) was the second daughter of Frederick III, German Emperor & his wife Victoria, Princess Royal, a daughter of Queen Victoria. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #thisdayinhistory #theyear1927 #d19nov #PrincessViktoria #HouseofHohenzollern #history #Prussia #AlexanderZoubkoff #BritishMonarchy https://www.instagram.com/p/BqYP4VZllZd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tqyle2ri0uhi
