Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by the Rhine
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (Alice Maud Mary: Princess Louis and Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine by marriage; 25 April 1843 -- 14 December 1878) was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Alice's education was devised by Albert's close friend and adviser, Baron Stockmar. Like her other siblings, Alice spent her early childhood in the company of her parents and siblings, travelling between the British royal residences. In 1861, when Prince Albert became ill with typhoid fever, Alice nursed him through his final illness; he died on 14 December. Following his death, Queen Victoria entered a period of intense mourning and Alice spent the next six months acting as her mother's unofficial secretary. On 1 July 1862, while the court was still at the height of mourning, Alice married the minor German Prince Louis of Hesse, heir to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. The ceremony-conducted privately and with unrelieved gloom at Osborne House-was described by the Queen as "more of a funeral than a wedding". The Princess' life in Darmstadt was unhappy as a result of impoverishment, family tragedy, and worsening relations with her husband and mother.
Alice was a prolific patron of women's causes, especially nursing, and was a follower of Florence Nightingale. When Hesse became involved in the Austro-Prussian War, Darmstadt filled with the injured; and the heavily pregnant Alice devoted much of her time to the management of field hospitals. One of her organisations, the Princess Alice Women's Guild, became a national one, taking over much of the day-to-day running of the military hospitals. Furthermore, she befriended and promoted the theologian David Friedrich Strauss, who provided an intellectual basis for her faith instead of the traditional sentimentality of Victorian religion. In 1877, Alice became Grand Duchess upon the accession of her husband; and her increased duties put a further strain on her health. The following year, she travelled to England for the last time, holidaying in Eastbourne at the Queen's expense. In the latter months of 1878, diphtheria infected the Hessian court; and Alice nursed her family for over a month before falling ill herself.
She died on the 17th anniversary of her father's death, 14 December 1878, at the New Palace in Darmstadt. She was the first of Queen Victoria's nine children to die, and one of three to be outlived by their mother, who survived until 1901.
Princess Alice was mother of Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia (empress consort of Tsar Nicholas II), maternal grandmother of Louis Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India, and the maternal great-grandmother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II. Another daughter, Elizabeth, who had married Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, was, like the tsarina and her family, killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
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She's my favorite, she told her story with her eyes, I don't sense much happiness, but a very deep soul.
lovely. What is the music that is playing?
its the theme music from the first hunger games movie - therefore a strange choice for the selection. but pretty nonetheless.
She strongly resembled her father Prince Albert.
My cousin is playing princess alice in the second series of victoria
Alice always looked so sad, always with her eyes downcast or looking away, never smiling.
A beautiful child.
Great-grandmother of Philip. Her daughters, other than Victoria who was grandmother of Philip, included Alexandra Romanov, and two other, one married to a brother of Kaiser Wilhelm (a nephew of Alice), and Another who married another Romanov but survived the massacres and joined church.
Lovely 1:47, 3:10, 3:27, 6:55, 7:13, 7:50, wonder which daughters these are.
Ella, who married the Tsar's cousin Grand Duke Sergei, did join a Russian Orthodox order after his assassination and devoted herself to nursing the sick. However she did not survive the Revolution. She was murdered along with other members of the Imperial Family not far from where the Tsar and family were killed.
The third daughter Princess Irene was the quiet one, didn't like the attention. It is ironic that Irene's husband Prince Heinrich(Henry)of Prussia was the only living adult brother of Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany whom many blame for the beginning of World War I. Irene's mother Princess Alice and her husband's mother Victoria were sisters(the first two daughters of Queen Victoria).They married into the German royals whose soldiers were fighting and dying against Britain their birth country. The other two daughters of Princess Alice, Elizabeth and Alexandra, the wife of Russia's last Czar Nicholas II had married into the Russian royal family and their soldiers were dying by the thousands against the mighty German army which was supposed under the assumed leadership of their sister Irene's brother in law Kaiser Wilhelm. It is very ironic that within the family of Princess Alice of Hesse( Queen Victoria's 2nd daughter) and her four daughters a great world War was fought in which millions of soldiers and civilians died. A real genuine family feud.
Thank you for making this and translating into English, very interesting!
Who were they all? Names would have been interesting
A good chunk is Alice and her siblings (Victoria, Albert, Alfred, Helena, Louise, Arthur, Leopold, and Beatrice)
2:06 Alice, her brother Albert, and their grandmother (Queen Victoria's mother)
3:41 Alice with her husband, Louis of Hesse and by Rhine
4:27 is the start of her own family's photos
5:08 think that's the 3 younger daughters and one of the younger sons of Queen Victoria with her and her daughter in law, Alexandra with Albert, and son in law Louis with Alice
5:12 Alice and her brother Albert with their spouses Louis and Alexandra
1:31/1:35/7:27 Alice with her older sister Victoria
7:34/7:42 Alice with her children
Alice's children:
Victoria (great grandmother of prince Philip)
Elizabeth (killed in the Russian revolution)
Irene
Ernest (last Grand duke of Hesse and by Rhine)
Friedrich (died as a child)
Alix (last Empress of Russia/killed in the Russian revolution)
Marie (died as a child)
Sweet Alice.So kind and nurturing My favorite also.She has captured my caregiving spirit. RIP with all of your loves in Heaven together......❤🙏
she always looked so depressed, tired and unhappy. Even pics with her children never seen her smile in her life time.
Very well put together video with lots of fantastic photos I hadn't seen before now. Well done & thank you.
my proud to be German
very nice thanx
I ask to GOD to have compassion to all family and cut all evil or maltition....my soul belong to GOD
God be with Royal Highness, i´m praye...in name of GOD i ask to clean all the evil in family...my proud and eternal Love