Alice Gallery

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and their Children

Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and Prince Consort Albert (1819-1961) and their Family (from top left, going across and then down): Victoria, Princess Royal (Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa), German Empress and Queen of Prussia by marriage to German Emperor Frederick III (1840-1901), King Edward VII (1841-1910), Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (formerly The Duke of Edinburgh) (1840-1900), The Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-1884), The Duke of Connaught (1850-1942), Helena, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (1846-1923), Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine (1843-1878), Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (later Princess Henry of Battenberg) (1857-1944) and Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939). Date: circa 1910

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Princess Alice with Grand Duke Louis of Hesse

Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hess with her husband, Grand Duke Louis (Ludwig IV) of Hesse (1843-1878). Alice was Queen Victoria's third child and second daughter. She married Louis on the 1st July 1862, at Osborne House beneath a portrait of her recently deceased father, Albert, Prince Consort. Alice and Louis had five daughters and two sons, including Alix, the future Tsaritsa of Russia. Alice's life was tragically cut short when she died of diptheria at the age of only 34, contracted while nursing her children. Alice is the maternal great-grandmother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Date: 1862

© Charlotte Zeepvat/ILN/Mary Evans

Princess Alice of Greece

Princess Alice of Battenberg, Princess Andrew of Greece (1885-1969), c. 1916. Alice was the daughter of Princess Victoria of Hesse and Prince Louis of Battenberg, and is the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

© Charlotte Zeepvat/ILN/Mary Evans Picture Library

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