Iolanthe is one of a number of Gilbert's works, including The Wicked World ( 1873 ), Broken Hearts ( 1875 ), Princess Ida ( 1884 ) and Fallen Fairies ( 1909 ), where the introduction of men and " mortal love " into a tranquil world of women wreaks havoc with the status quo.

Princess Ida forswears the world of men

Princess Ida ( 1884 ) spoofed women's education and male chauvinism and continued the theme from Iolanthe of the war between the sexes.

Gilbert had written a blank verse farce based on the same material in 1870, called The Princess, and he reused a good deal of the dialogue from his earlier play in the libretto of Princess Ida.

Princess Ida was the first of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas that, by the partnership's previous standards, was not a success.

" As Princess Ida showed signs of flagging, Carte realised that, for the first time in the partnership's history, no new opera would be ready when the old one closed.

* In Act II of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1884 comic opera Princess Ida, Lady Psyche suggests that students at a women's university who wish to study the classics should get their editions " Bowdlerised ".

* January 5 – Gilbert & Sullivan's Princess Ida has its première at the Savoy Theatre, London.

" The partnership's next opera, Princess Ida, opened in January 1884.

Gilbert used foreign or fictional locales in several operas, including The Mikado, Princess Ida, The Gondoliers, Utopia, Limited and The Grand Duke, to soften the impact of his pointed satire of British institutions.

Gilbert and Sullivan's previous opera, Princess Ida, ran for nine months ; a short duration by Savoy opera standards.

Iolanthe is one of several of Gilbert's works, including The Wicked World, Broken Hearts, Fallen Fairies, and Princess Ida, where the introduction of males into a tranquil world of women brings " mortal love " that wreaks havoc with the status quo.

After a run shorter than any of the earlier Gilbert and Sullivan operas premiered at the Savoy except Princess Ida, Ruddigore closed in November 1887, to make way for a revival of H. M. S.

") but rated the score, as a whole, " of a fair average kind, being not equal to The Sorcerer but certainly superior to Princess Ida.

* In Princess Ida, by Gilbert and Sullivan, the hardnosed princess's castle is called Castle Adamant.

Gilbert and Sullivan's opera Princess Ida is indirectly inspired by Love's Labour's Lost.

* Chloe, in the comic opera Princess Ida by Gilbert and Sullivan

: Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant ( 1884 )

The last eight of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas were premièred at the Savoy: Iolanthe ( 1882 ), Princess Ida ( 1884 ), The Mikado ( 1885 ), Ruddigore ( 1887 ), The Yeomen of the Guard ( 1888 ) The Gondoliers ( 1889 ), Utopia, Limited ( 1893 ), and The Grand Duke ( 1896 ), and the term Savoy Opera has come to be associated with all their joint works.

* Princess Ida, eponymous heroine of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera

* Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont ( 1796-1869 ), member of the House of Waldeck and Pyrmont and a Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Germany

* In the 1884 comic opera called Princess Ida, there is a punning reference to Watts in Act I.

Pinafore ( 1878 ); Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance, who is an expert at everything except " military knowledge " ( 1880 ); the aesthetic poet, Reginald Bunthorne in Patience ( 1881 ); the love-lonely Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe ( 1882 ); the sarcastic cripple, King Gama, in Princess Ida ( 1884 ); Ko-Ko the cheap tailor, elevated to the post of Lord High Executioner, in The Mikado ( 1885 ); the accursed Robin Oakapple in Ruddigore ( 1887 ); and the pathetic jester, Jack Point, in The Yeomen of the Guard ( 1888 ).

In Dresden on 24 April 1833 Frederick Augustus married secondly with the Princess Maria of Bavaria ( Maria Anna Leopoldine Elisabeth Wilhelmine ), daughter of the King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria.

* Marie-Christine Daphné Astrid Elisabeth Leopoldine, Princess of Belgium, born in Brussels on 6 February 1951.

* Marie-Esméralda Adélaïde Lilian Anne Leopoldine, Princess of Belgium, born in Brussels on 30 September 1956.

* Princess Marie Christine Leopoldine ( 25 May 1757 Brussels-13 September 1830 Teplice )

Luise of Tuscany ( 2 December 1870, Salzburg – 23 March 1947, Brussels ) ( Luise Antoinette Maria Theresia Josepha Johanna Leopoldine Caroline Ferdinande Alice Ernestine, Princess Imperial and Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Tuscany, Hungary and Bohemia ) was a daughter of Ferdinand IV of Tuscany and his second wife, Alice of Bourbon-Parma, daughter of Duke Charles III and Louise d ' Artois.

Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( Beatrice Leopoldine Victoria ; 20 April 1884 – 13 July 1966 ) was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

* Princess Maria Leopoldine Josepha Sophia Aemiliana ( Vienna, 11 September 1793 – Vienna, 28 July 1808 )

* Article by Princess Michael of Kent about Leopoldine Retrieved 26 January 2006

* Frédéric Maurice, comte d ' Auvergne ( 1642 – 1707 ) married Princess Henriette Françoise von Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Marquise de Bergen-op-Zoom and had 13 children ; grandfather of Maria Henriette Leopoldine de La Tour d ' Auvergne, mother of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria.

* Ludwig ( I )' s daughter Countess Charlotte ( 1701-1761 ( married to General Alexander von Dönhoff ), Count Heinrich ( VII )' s widow Marie Thérèse, née d ' Harscamp and Friedrich ( V )' s widow Leopoldine, the biographer of Zieten, were all chief ladies-in-waiting to Princess Henry, sister-in-law of Frederick the Great.

* Princess Leopoldine of Baden ( 22 February 1837 — 23 December 1913 ); married Hermann Ernst Franz Bernhard VI, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg on 24 September 1862, and had issue.

In 1701, senior living representatives of lines passed over in favor of Sophia included Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orléans, Louis Otto, Prince of Salm and his sisters, Anne Henriette, Princess of Condé, Benedicta Henrietta, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Sophia's sister Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate.

* Print after Amigoni of Princess Amelia Sophia Eleanora

* 1773 – Princess Sophia of Gloucester ( d. 1844 )

* 1777 – Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom ( d. 1848 )

* 1768 – Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, ( d. 1840 )

* 1630 – Sophia of Hanover, Princess Palatine and Electress of Saxony ( d. 1714 )

Dirk Van der Cruysse: Sophie de Hanovre, Memoires et Lettres de Voyage, Fayard Paris, 1990 ; also Sophia of Hanover: From Winter Princess to Heiress of Great Britain, J. N.

Sophia, Princess Palatine, and Electress of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Before her marriage, Sophia, as the daughter of Frederick V, Elector Palatine of the Rhine, was referred to as Sophie, Princess Palatine of the Rhine, or as Sophia of the Palatinate.

Sophia of Hanover, From Winter Princess to Heiress of Great Britain ; London: Peter Owen, 2010

* October 25 – The steamer Princess Sophia sinks on Vanderbilt Reef near Juneau, Alaska ; 353 people die in the greatest maritime disaster in the Pacific Northwest.

** Juan Carlos of Spain marries the Greek Princess Sophia in Athens.

* November 29 – Princess Sophia of Gloucester ( b. 1773 )

* November 23 – Sophia, Princess of Zelle, queen of George I of Great Britain ( b. 1666 )

In 1421, at age 8, Frederick was betrothed to Princess Jadwiga of Lithuania, but she died on 8 December 1431, before the marriage could take place, purportedly poisoned by her stepmother Sophia of Halshany.

The death in 1431 of Princess Jadwiga, the last heir of Piast blood, released Władysław to make his sons by Sophia of Halshany his heirs, though he had to sweeten the Polish nobles with concessions to ensure their agreement, since the monarchy was elective.

***** HRH The Princess Augusta Sophia ( 1768 – 1840 )

***** HRH The Princess Sophia ( 1777 – 1848 )

***** HRH Princess Sophia of Gloucester ( 1773 – 1844 )

** HM The Princess Sophia Dorothea, Queen in Prussia ( 1687 – 1757 )

The German Emperor Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse, Duke Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Duke Ernst August of Brunswick were Edward's nephews ; Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain, Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden, Crown Princess Marie of Romania, Crown Princess Sophia of Greece, Empress Alexandra of Russia, Grand Duchess Alexandra of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Duchess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen were his nieces ; Haakon VII of Norway was both his nephew by marriage and his son-in-law ; George I of Greece and Frederick VIII of Denmark were his brothers-in-law ; Albert I of Belgium, Charles I and Manuel II of Portugal, and Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria were his second cousins.

By the terms of the English Act of Settlement 1701, George's mother, Sophia, was designated as the heir to the English throne if the then reigning monarch ( William III ) and his sister-in-law, Princess Anne of Denmark ( later Queen Anne ) died without surviving issue.