After a year of persuasion, Queen Victoria agreed to the marriage, which took place at Whippingham on the Isle of Wight on 23 July 1885.
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On 28 August 1945, her body was transferred and placed inside a joint tomb, alongside her husband, in St. Mildred's Church, Whippingham.
St John's took seven years to build between the laying of the foundation stone in 1889 by Princess Beatrice of Battenburg to consecration in November 1895 by Bishop Cambell of Bangor.
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There is also the curious case of Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, later Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain (the daughter of Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg).
Among its patrons were Princess Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg who was the society's "Grand Princess"; the children of Princess Beatrice (Queen Victoria's youngest child) were members.
Britain's Queen Victoria, through two of her five daughters (Princess Alice and Princess Beatrice), passed the mutation to various royal houses across the continent, including the royal families of Spain, Germany and Russia.
She married Alexander Albert Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke, son of Prince Henry of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, on 19 July 1917 at St. James's Palace, Chapel Royal, St. James's, London.