Princess Alice of Battenberg was born Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Mary on 25 February 1885 at Windsor Castle in the presence of her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. She was raised as an ...

As royals go, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, was one of the best-loved – and most redoubtable. In many ways the last great Edwardian lady, she was the longest living British royal before her ...

Queen Victoria's fourth daughter died owing 15 ... as being overly domesticated - like her mother. She added: "Princess Alice, mother of Prince Philip, said she was once at a dinner with Princess ...

another grandchild of Queen Victoria. On January 19 1937, at the Haga Palace outside Stockholm, Princess Birgitta Ingeborg Alice, their second daughter, was born. When Birgitta was 10, however ...

and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, were German. Alice was one of four, the others being sister Louise, brother Louis and George. Louise later became Queen of Sweden. When she was a young ...

In 1947, at Westminster Abbey, the Marchioness of Milford Haven witnessed her grandson Philip marry Princess Elizabeth, soon to be Queen. The Marchioness, who had been Princess Victoria of Hesse, was ...

Of all Queen Victoria's children, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll ... and just a few months after their arrival, Louise's sister, Alice, died, leaving her homesick and grieving. She amused herself ...