The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Victoria, empress of Germany
(Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa), 18401901, empress of Germany, daughter of Victoria of England. In 1858 she married the German crown prince (later Emperor Frederick III). After her husbands death in 1888, she was generally known as Empress Frederick. An English liberal, she was bitterly hostile to the imperial chancellor Otto von Bismarck but was unable to make her dislike effective. Her letters were published in English in 1928.