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Admiral Prince Victor Ferdinand Franz Eugen Gustaf Adolf Constantin Friedrich of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, GCB (11 December 1833 – 31 December 1891), also known as Count von Gleichen, was an officer in the Royal Navy, and a sculptor.
Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, best known as Count Gleichen, was the son of a half-sister of Queen Victoria. Upon his retirement in 1866, after serving in the Royal Navy, he took up a career as a professional sculptor and trained for three years in the studio of William Theed.
Prince Victor Hohenlohe-Langenburg, better known as Count Gleichen (1833-1891), was the third and last son of Queen Victoria's half-sister, Princess Feodore, and her husband, Prince Ernst of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.
Queen Adelaide of the United Kingdom was a Hohenlohe-Langenburg on her mother's side and her cousin, Prince Ernst, was married in 1828 to Feodora of Leiningen, the half-sister of the future Queen Victoria.
This bronze group sculpture of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Prince George when boys, was presented to Queen Victoria – the princes’ grandmother - as a Christmas present in 1878 by her son Edward, Prince of Wales.
Count Gleichen was the youngest of the three sons of Queen Victoria’s half-sister Princess Feodore, wife of Prince Ernest Christian of Hohenlohe Langenburg. After retiring from the navy, he pursued a career as a sculptor.
Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg was born on 11 December 1833 in Wurttemberg, Germany. The third and youngest son of Prince Ernst of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and his wife Princess Fedore, Queen Victoria’s elder half-sister.
