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Jun 22, 2021 · Queen Mary gave the tiara to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester as a wedding present in 1935, and she later passed the tiara along to Birgitte. The necklace worn by Birgitte is also a Gloucester heirloom.
May 15, 2023 · Princess Alice of Battenberg died in 1969 while living in Buckingham Palace. She was 84 years old. Her dying wish was to be buried in Jerusalem, next to her cousin, Russian Grand Dutchess Elizabeth Feodorovna.
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Jun 20, 2016 · In 1935, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester was given a bandeau tiara, formed of diamond and platinum wide bandeau with clusters of large diamonds and alternative centres forming emerald and diamond brooches, as wedding gift from her father, the Duke of Buccleuch, which she often wore with a splendid emerald necklace.
Always looking for more funds, she is forced to sell jewelry to keep a roof over the residents’ heads, against a backdrop of a possible military coup.
Nov 18, 2019 · A great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Alice married Prince Andrew of Greece in 1903 and was lavished with gifts from foreign dignitaries—most notably receiving a present from the czar and...
Apr 14, 2021 · She sold the majority of her possessions and, in times of war, she gave her food rations to orphans or anybody else who needed them,” says historian Hugh Vickers in his book, The Crown Dissected,...
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Nov 19, 2019 · Princess Alice gave shelter to the wife, daughter and son of the late Haimaki Cohen, a late Jewish member of Greek Parliament and friend of Alice's. Rachel Cohen and her kids, Tilde and Michael, took refuge in Princess Alice's apartment in Athens.
