Princess Alice of the United Kingdom | Queen Victoria | British royal residences | Wiki

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom | Queen Victoria |  British royal residences | Wiki The Princess of the United Kingdom was Alice VA, CI (Alice Maud Marie; 25 April 1843 - 14 December 1878), by Grand Duchess of Hesse and Rhine, the third child and the second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Alice Rani was the first person to die for Victoria's nine children, and one of the three was passed by her mother, who died in 1901.
Alice spent her early childhood in the company of her parents and siblings, traveling between British royal residences. His education was made by Albert's close friend and adviser Baron Stockman, and it included languages such as suvorks and woodwork, and French and German.


 When his father, Prince Albert, was diagnosed with Typhoid fever in December 1861, Alice appointed him until his death. After his death, Queen Victoria entered the period of grief and Alice served as the mother's informal secretary for the next six months.


 On July 1, 1862, when the court was still at the height of mourning, Alice married Hessey's minor German Prince Louis, who was the successor to Hayes's Grand Duchy. In the Osborne House, the queen had described the ceremony as "more funeral than marriage" with privately organized and unrelenting indifference. The Princess's life at Darmstadt was unhappy with the poor, family tragedy and the result of spoiling the relationship with her husband and mother.

Alice was a great patron of women's causes and showed interest in nursing, especially Florence Nightingale's work. When Hesse joined the war in Austro-Prussia, then filled with dermstadt people; Heavy pregnant Alice devoted a lot of time to the management of the field hospitals.

Princess Alice Women's Guild, one of his organizations, took the majority of the state's military hospitals day by day. As a result of this activity, Queen Victoria is worried about Alice's directive regarding medical and especially gynecological matters.


 In 1871, he wrote to Alice's younger sister, Princess Lewis, who had recently married: "Do not allow Alice to pump you. Be very quiet about your 'interior' and in 1877, Alice Grand Duchess became the entry of her husband, and the duties that put more stress on her health increased. In late 1878, diphtheria infected Hessian court.Alice took herself one month after being ill Sector was to take care of his family, died that year late.

Princess Alice was the mother of Russia's Tsaritsa Alexandra Fedorovna (wife of Tsar Nicholas II), the mother of Louis Mountbatten, the first Earl Mountbatten of Burma (the last Viceroy of India), and the granddaughter of Queen Philip II of Duke of Edinburgh (Queen Elizabeth II) wife). Another daughter Elizabeth, married to Grand Duke Sergei Alexandondov of Russia, was like Tsarsitsa and her family killed in 1918 by Bolshevik.