Queen Letizia of Spain chooses poignant symbolic jewellery at the military Easter event with King Felipe and Princess Leonor

Born in 1887, Victoria Eugenie was the daughter of Prince Henry of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice, the fifth daughter of Queen Victoria. ‘Ena’, as she was known, spent her childhood flitting between the royal residences at Balmoral, Windsor Castle, and Osborne House, and Queen Victoria doted upon her, calling her granddaughter ‘a little treasure’.

After the death of her father, and a nasty accident involving a horse and a potential brain haemorrhage, Princess Victoria Eugenie ended…