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Princess Alice (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.
Nov 1, 2018 · The first (published) mention of Ella’s birth that we have from Alice is contained within her letter to Queen Victoria, written from Darmstadt on 7 November 1864, where she echoes the Queen’s ...
After the War of the Thuringian Succession upon the death of Landgrave Henry Raspe in 1247, his niece Duchess Sophia of Brabant secured the Hessian possessions for her minor son Henry the Child, who would become the first landgrave of Hesse and founder of the House of Hesse in 1246.
However Alice, the Grand Duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt, was a unique individual in her own right. Alice Maud Mary was born in the early morning hours of April 25th, 1843. According to a journal entry Queen Victoria wrote a few weeks after Alice's birth, the baby's two older siblings, Vicky and Bertie, happily welcomed their little sister into the ...
Alexandra Feodorovna ( Russian: Александра Фёдоровна; 6 June [ O.S. 25 May] 1872 – 17 July 1918), Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine at birth, was the last Empress of Russia as the consort of Emperor Nicholas II from their marriage on 26 November [ O.S. 14 November] 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March [ O.S. 2 March] 1917.
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (Ernest Ludwig Charles Albert Wilhelm) (25 November 1868 - 9 October 1937) married firstly his cousin Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the daughter of Alice's brother Alfred Duke of Edinburgh and secondly Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich.
In 1862 she married Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. In this portrait Princess Alice is depicted in evening dress with badges of the Orders of Victoria and Albert, the Crown of India, and Louise of Prussia.
