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The Grand Duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt, Princess Alice, of England, died at 7:30 o'clock this morning, of diphtheria. She was in a state of unconsciousness from 2:30 o'clock until the time of her death.
ALEXANDRA THE CZARINA; Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt Is Now the Autocrat's Wife. RAYS OF THE DAZZLING CEREMONY Archpriest Janyscheff, Chaplain, of the Late Czar, Was the Officiating Clergyman ...
Princess Alicce was a Hessian royal by birth and was a member of the Battenberg family, a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, a State of the Holy Roman Empire.
Princess Alice married Prince Louis of Hesse and was the mother of Alexandra, last Empress of Russia, who in turn transmitted hemophilia to her only son, Tsarevitch Alexis.
After Princess Alice’s marriage the Queen, still in the strictest seclusion, ... she consented to meet him again at the Grand Duke of Hesse’s palace at Darmstadt, on her way back to England.
PRINCESS ALICE may be a familiar name among some of avid fans of the Royal Family. ... which is a branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt. The Princess suffered from congenital hearing loss, ...
On July 1, 1862, Alice married the handsome and rather uncomplicated Louis of Hesse and Rhine, and set off to start a new life in conservative Darmstadt (now part of Germany).
Princess Alice was born at Windsor Castle on February 25, 1885, to Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, with her great-grandmother Queen Victoria ...
In 1902, Princess Alice met her husband, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, at King Edward VII's Coronation.The pair married "at the Old Palace" in Darmstadt, Germany in 1903, "in the presence ...