Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te mutunga o te tekau tau 1840, i haere a Mina ki Uropi me tōna whānau kia taea ai e rātau te "ako i ngā reo, kia oti ai hoki a rātau mātauranga". I tiimata te haerenga i te tau 1847, i te wa i haere a Mina ki Dresden na te hiahia o tona whaea kia ako nga tamahine ki te reo Tiamana. Mai i te 1847 ki te 1849, ko ia me tona whanau i noho ki Paris e tata ana ki te Arc de Triomphe, a, i ata manakohia e te Whanau Royal French i arahina e Louis Philippe I me Kuini Marie Amelie. Kua mahue ratou i muri tata i te kingi, me te kuini o
ka hinga i te mana, i te mea kua noho ohorere te taone mo te hunga o to ratou taumata. I te tau 1850, i tae atu raua ki te kooti o Hanover, a, i manakohia e Ernest Augustus, Kingi o Hanover me tona whanau; i muri mai i taua tau, ka hoki raua ki Kensington Palace ka puta mai a Mina me Millicent ki te hapori.