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As Prince Henry was the product of a morganatic marriage, he took his style of Prince of Battenberg from his mother, who had been created Princess of Battenberg.

As such Henry's daughter would normally have been born with the title Her Serene Highness Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg.

However, on 4 December 1886, Queen Victoria had issued letters patent granting the title of " Highness " to all sons and daughters of Prince Henry and Princess Beatrice, thus the Princess was born Her Highness Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg.

She was named for her two grandmothers and for her godmother, Empress Eugénie, the Spanish-born widow of the former Emperor of the French Napoleon III, who lived in exile in the UK.

To her family, and the British general public, she was known by the last of her names, as Ena.