Skip to content
VitrineVitrine

Princess Helene, Princess Karl Ernst of Schönburg-Waldenburg

11 Apr 1840 – 2 Dec 1908

5 facts1 source

Facts and their sources

A life in time

  1. 11 Apr 1840

    Born

  2. 20 Oct 1872

    A son is born

  3. 2 Dec 1908

    Dies, aged 68

During her lifetime

She lived through 7 decades. Pick one to hear and see what it was like.

General history, not a record about the family: each item says where it comes from.

The 1840s · Princess is born

Around the world1844

The telegraph

Samuel Morse’s line sent “What hath God wrought” from Washington to Baltimore; news began to travel faster than horses.