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Queen Alexandra(Alexandra of Denmark)
Princess Beatrice of Battenberg
Princess Victoria of Wales
Queen Victoria
King Edward VII
Louise, Princess Royal & Duchess of Fife
Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna(Alix of Hesse)
Tsar Nicholas II
Queen Maud of Norway(Maud of Wales)
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“It's clear that Queen Victoria was going through an extremely difficult period following the loss of her husband, Prince Albert, and we understand that the pain of bereavement is a challenging experience. However, the Queen's attitude towards her daughter Alice's wedding was somewhat selfish. During the wedding ceremony, the princess was only allowed to wear her wedding dress for a brief moment before changing back into her mourning outfit. Alice deserved a less depressing wedding ceremony without her mother's negative comments.” - Text & Image Submitted by cenacevedo15
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White marble bust of Princess Alice by Mary Thornycroft, 1861 (x)
‘To a naturally engaging manner quite exceptional joyousness and power of showing affectionate emotion imparted an especial charm, which revealed itself in the fine lines of her face, in her graceful movements and a certain inborn noblesess and dignity.’ Princess Louise of Prussia, Grand Duchess of Baden
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Portrait of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, 1894.
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Princess Alice in Mourning Dress, 1861 (The MET)
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Drawing of Princess Beatrice of Great Britain and Ireland (later of Battenberg) done by her elder sister Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland (later GD of Hesse), Osborne House August 1860
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Today, 145 years ago, Princess Alice of Hesse (née Great Britain and Ireland) died of Diptheria 🖤🕊️
“Alice and the doctors nursed the family round the clock. On the morning of 16 November, Marie choked to death from the membrane covering her throat. Her mother, awakened by the doctors, hurried to the nursery, only to find her daughter dead. Alice sat by her daughter's body, kissing Marie's face and hands, trying to work up the strength to tell her ill husband. She watched as Marie's coffin was wheeled off to the family mausoleum. For weeks, Alice concealed Marie's death from the other sick children, who asked about her and tried to send their little sister oys. Elisabeth, who had been sent to stay with her paternal andmother, was the only child who escaped infection. The sick children were finally told at the beginning of December that Marie had died. Ten-year-old Ernst-Ludwig first refused to believe the news and then broke down in tears. His mother hugged and kiss him, despite the risk of infection. On 7 December Alice recognize the symptoms of diphtheria in herself. She died on the morning 14 December, murmuring "From Friday to Saturday -- four week-- May -- dear Papa." Alice was interred beside her daughter.”
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On December the 14th 1878, Grand Duchess Alice of Hesse died after a short battle with illness. Alice, who were the sister-in-law of Princess Alexandra, is said to have been her brother Albert’s favourite sister. Albert sank deep in grief at the loss of Alice and his wife, Princess Alexandra (seated beneath Alice in the photo) said upon meeting Queen Victoria;
"I wish I had died instead of her".
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Princess Alice of Battenberg (Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie; 1885 – 1969) - Princess of Greece and Denmark
One of her Great-Grandmothers was Queen Victoria; her maternal grandmother was Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine; her mother was Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, sister of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia; her father was Prince Louis of Battenberg. Her son was Prince Phillip, consort of Queen Elizabeth II.
She married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark
She had five children:
Margarita, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Theodora, Margravine of Baden
Cecilie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse
Sophie, Princess George of Hanover
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Alice suffered incredibly through her life, but she did not let that stop her from always thinking of others; she was born with a hearing deficit and her brilliant mother Victoria, taught her to lip read not in one but several languages. She had a husband who preferred to gamble in Montecarlo to being with his wife and children or...anything else. She was diagnosed with squizophrenia (there is no evidence that this was a correct diagnosis even though it was issue by Dr. Freud himself) and her pelvic organs irradiated to produce an early menopause (this was supposed to relieve the symptoms according to the medical thinking of the times). She lost her daughter Cecilie in a plane crash.
Yet, like her grandmother Alice, helping others came to her naturally. Israel gave her the award Righteous Among the Nations, bestowed on people who risked their own lives to help Jewish people survive the Holocaust. She worked for the Swiss Red Cross.
The princess founded a nursing order of Greek Orthodox nuns, the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary, modelled after the convent that her aunt, the martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, had founded in Russia in 1909. She dedicated herself to helping others but eventually the order failed because of lack of funds.
And besides all of that, she was beautiful.
She died at Buckingham Palace at the age of 84.
(I have to add something here: Alice's smile in the picture is one of the most open, sweetest, tenderest, and most beautiful smiles I have ever seen. It filled me with awe, and thinking about her life brought tears to my eyes)
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Queen Victoria's Daughters
Vicky (1840-1901), married Frederick, future Emperor of Germany. She had four sons, including Wilhelm II of Germany, and four daughters, including Queen Sophia of Greece.
Alice (1843-1878), married Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by the Rhine. She had two sons and five daughters, including Empress Alexandra of Russia.
Helena (1846-1923), married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. She had four sons and two daughters.
Louise (1848-1939), married John Cambell, future Duke of Argyll. She had no children.
Beatrice (1857-1944), married Prince Henry of Battenberg. She had three sons and one daughter, including Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain.
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Princess Alice of Hesse and her daughter Victoria, 1863
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Princess Alice VA CI (Alice Maud Mary; 25 April 1843 – 14 December 1878) was Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine from 13 June 1877 until her death in 1878 as the wife of Grand Duke Louis IV.
She was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Alice was the first of Queen Victoria's nine children to die, and one of three to predecease their mother, who died in 1901.
Her life had been enwrapped in tragedy since her father's death in 1861.
Victoria Alberta Elisabeth Mathilde Marie Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven VA (born Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine; 5 April 1863 – 24 September 1950) was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
#Princess Alice#Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine#Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine#British Royal Family#House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha#House of Hanover#House of Hesse
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Two group photographs of Prince Louis and Princess Alice of Hesse with their two daughters, Victoria and Elisabeth, alongside Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, and Prince Alfred, 1865.
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“I always get goose bumps when I see the wedding photo of Princess Alexandra of Denmark (future Queen of the United Kingdom), where Princesses Alice of the United Kingdom and Dagmar of Denmark (future Russian Empress) are standing next to each other. Probably at the moment of that photo, they could not imagine that one day their children would fall in love, get married and be brutally murdered together with their grandchildren. Life is full of surprises.” - Submitted by Anonymous
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Princess Louise, Princess Alice, Princess Helena and Prince Arthur, circa 1858. (x)
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Portrait of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia holding a fan, 1887.
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Alice, the Princess Louis of Hesse and her husband Prince Louis of Hesse at the wedding of Alice's brother Albert Edward and Princess Alexandra of Denmark on 10th March 1863.
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