Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland
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Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland is presented as a biographical sketch and letters. The contents list parts headed Childhood and Girlhood, 1843-62, In Her New Home, 1862-65 and Trials, 1873-1877, among others. During the first happy weeks after her engagement, Princess Alice spent the greater part of her evenings with her beloved grandmother, the Duchess of Kent, either reading or playing on the piano to her.
The text says the Duchess' condition had become worse during the first months of the new year (1861), and that she died on the 16th of March at the age of seventy-four. A passage marked Kranichstein, September 4th, says "How too delightful your expeditions must have been!" to someone addressed as you. One account says the Princess told the writer she owed it all to her child's death and to the influence of a Scotch gentleman, a friend of the Grand Duke's and the Grand Duchess'.
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- Grand Duchess Alice
- Pages
- 231
- Language
- English
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- European History
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