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Dec 14, 2019 · The following morning – which was also the anniversary of Prince Albert’s death – Alice died just after 8.30 A.M. Her last words were “dear papa.” Prime Minister Disraeli said in a memorial speech, “My Lords, there is something wonderfully piteous in the immediate cause of her death.
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Our story begins in England in 1840, when the young Queen Victoria meets the love of her life—a German prince named Albert. That they were happy was never in doubt, as Victoria’s own letters and diary entries attest: On the evening of their wedding day, 10 February 1840, Victoria wrote: With such a match made in heaven, one would imagine all of Vic...
The first of nine children—also named Victoria—arrived on 21 November, 1840. But it was the arrival of their third child and second daughter, Alice on 25 April 1843, where our story starts to unfold. Alice was named in honour of Victoria’s first Prime Minister and mentor, Lord Melbourne, who had said the name “Alice” was his favorite for a girl
At the suggestion of her older sister, Victoria, she became engaged to a handsome German Prince, Louis of Hesse, in April of 1861. They planned to marry on 1 July the following year. But six months before the wedding, tragedy struck. On 14 December 1861, her father, Prince Albert, died. Despite her mother’s grief and the royal family still being in...
It wasn’t long before more painful tragedy would befall Alice. In 1873, her youngest and favourite son Friedrich, called “Frittie”, died after falling from a window. Little Frittie’s hemophilia meant that bleeding from his internal wounds could not be stopped. Alice never recovered from his death. Beside herself with grief, she wrote to her mother,...
Alice dedicated herself to Ernest, her only surviving son, and her newborn daughter Marie. But she suffered ill health from the stresses of her duties and retreated to Balmoral Castle hoping the fresh air of Scotland would help her recover. Shortly after her return in November of 1878, a diphtheria epidemic swept through Darmstadt and hit the royal...
Oct 30, 2004 · THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT IS ISSUED BY THE PRESS SECRETARY TO THE QUEEN. The Queen was greatly saddened by the death of her aunt, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. After the Princess's marriage to Henry, Duke of Gloucester, in 1935, Princess Alice supported the work of King George VI and then The Queen over many years throughout war and ...
10 June 1974 – 29 October 2004: Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester On 10 June 1974, Prince Henry died, and was succeeded as Duke of Gloucester by their second son, Prince Richard (the couple's elder son, Prince William, had been killed in an aeroplane crash in 1972).
Nov 1, 2004 · Sun 31 Oct 2004 21.49 EST. Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, who has died aged 102, lived longer than her sister-in-law, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. She was perhaps the last...
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. Princess Alice 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.
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