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  2. British History. Famous for their beauty, the Hesse sisters were known within royal circles as ‘The Four Graces’. Victoria, Ella, Irene and Alix were granddaughters of Queen Victoria and each married into a European dynasty. Their lives, loves and losses fractured, altered and shaped the royal makeup of Europe like never before.

  3. Early life. Four of the Hesse sisters: (left to right) Irene, Victoria, Elisabeth, and Alix, 1885. Victoria was born on Easter Sunday at Windsor Castle in the presence of her maternal grandmother, Queen Victoria. She was christened in the Lutheran faith in the Green Drawing Room at Windsor Castle, in the arms of the Queen on 27 April. [1] .

  4. 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 ...

  5. Mar 23, 2015 · The Hesse Sisters. Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by the Rhine, adored his four sisters Victoria, Elizabeth, Irene and Alix. They were known in royal circles as "The Four Graces" because they were famous for their beauty. The sisters were of different personalities and temperaments but they all share a deep love and bond with each other.

  6. 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.

  7. Nov 10, 2022 · Dubbed ‘The Four Graces’, princesses Irene, Victoria, Elizabeth (known as Ella) and Alexandra (known as Alix) were the daughters of Queen Victoria's third child, Princess Alice. In 1861, following Victoria's consent, Alice became engaged to Prince Louis of Hesse, with whom she got on ‘very well’.

  8. Aug 1, 2015 · Queen Victoria’s third child had married Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine and after her birth little Victoria moved to the family home of Darmstadt where a happy childhood unfolded. But in ...

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