Queen Victoria’s second daughter, Alice, married the Hessian Grand Duke Louis, their son Ernest Louis founded the artists’ colony Mathildenhöhe and became an important patron of the art nouveau movement. Their daughter married the Tsar. The second son of Queen Victoria, Prince Alfred, became the ruling Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Her daughter Helena married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Prince Arthur married Louise Margaret of Prussia, Prince Leopold married Helene of Waldeck-Pyrmont and the youngest, Princess Beatrice, married Prince Henry of Battenberg.