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On This Day In History . 25 April 1843 . Princess Alice of the United Kingdom was born . . ◼ Princess Alice of the United Kingdom; later Princess Louis of Hesse & Grand Duchess of Hesse & by Rhine) was the third child & second daughter of Queen Victoria & Albert, Prince Consort. . ◼ On 1 July 1862, Alice married the minor German Prince Louis of Hesse, heir to the Grand Duchy of Hesse, they had seven children. . ◼ Alice was a prolific patron of women’s causes & showed an interest in nursing, especially the work of Florence Nightingale. When Hesse became involved in the Austro-Prussian War, Darmstadt filled with the injured; 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, took over much of the day-to-day running of the state’s military hospitals. As a result of this activity, Queen Victoria became concerned about Alice’s directness about medical, & , in particular, gynaecological, matters. . ◼ By Saturday, 14 December 1878, the anniversary of her father’s death, she became seriously ill with the diphtheria caught from her son. Her last words were “dear Papa”, &  she fell unconscious at 2:30 am. Just after 8:30 am, she died. Alice was buried on 18 December 1878 at the Grand Ducal mausoleum at Rosenhöhe outside Darmstadt, with the Union Flag draped over her coffin. .. ◼ Princess Alice was the mother of Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia (empress consort of Tsar Nicholas II), maternal grandmother of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the last Viceroy of India, & maternal great-grandmother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II. Another daughter, Elisabeth, who had married Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, was, like the tsaritsa and her family, killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918. . . . #onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #theyear1843 #d25apr #PrincessAlice #Houseofsaxecoburgandgotha #history #Britishmonarchy #otd #OnThisDay #historyinpictures #Monarchy #RoyalHistory #RoyalFamily #Royalty #Royals #BritishRoyals #BritishRoyalFamily #Britishroyalty #historyfacts #QueenVictoria #Princealbert #Art #Vintagephoto (at Buckingham Palace, London) https://www.instagram.com/p/COGcnJwMTkb/?igshid=e7buoj7fqo78

(1959) Photography of (left to right,) Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, Prince Albert, Princess Alice, Duke of Oporto, Queen Victoria (seated), Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and Leopold I of Belgium. I'm not sure but i believe that the duke of Oporto was the king to be D. Luis of Portugal. Like his brother, Luis was very founded of his uncle Albert and her aunt Victoria who welcome him and his brother to visit them more often. #historyinpictures #england #english #uk #portugal #queenvictoria #princealbert #queen #king #victorian #victorianera #british #victoriana #history #historyinphotos #historia #historie #family #royalfamily #princessalice #storia #história #histoire #istoria #fashionhistory #fashion #1800s #19thcentury https://www.instagram.com/p/B2ciL1dnYxV/?igshid=1kfdexs39wtry

Tekko was hella awesome. I forgot to post pics so here they are a month or so later

On This Day In History 14 December 1878 👑  Princess Alice of the United Kingdom died ◼   On 14 December, the anniversary of her father’s death (Prince Albert) , she became seriously ill with the diphtheria caught from her son. Her last words were “dear Papa”, &  she fell unconscious at 2:30 am. Just after 8:30 am, she died.Alice was buried on 18 December 1878 at the Grand Ducal mausoleum at Rosenhöhe outside Darmstadt, with the Union Flag draped over her coffin. ◼   Alice was the first of Queen Victoria’s nine children to die, & one of three to be outlived by their mother, who died in 1901 ▪️ Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (born .25 April 1843); later Princess Louis of Hesse & Grand Duchess of Hesse & by Rhine) was the third child & second daughter of Queen Victoria & Albert, Prince Consort. Some Facts; ◼  On 1 July 1862, Alice married the minor German Prince Louis of Hesse, heir to the Grand Duchy of Hesse, they had seven children. ◼  Alice was a prolific patron of women’s causes & showed an interest in nursing, especially the work of Florence Nightingale. When Hesse became involved in the Austro-Prussian War, Darmstadt filled with the injured; 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, took over much of the day-to-day running of the state’s military hospitals. As a result of this activity, Queen Victoria became concerned about Alice’s directness about medical, & , in particular, gynaecological, matters. ◼  Princess Alice was the mother of Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia (empress consort of Tsar Nicholas II), maternal grandmother of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the last Viceroy of India, & maternal great-grandmother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II. Another daughter, Elisabeth, who had married Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, was, like the tsaritsa & her family, killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918. . #otd #OnThisDayInHistory #OnThisDay #ThisDayInHistory #RoyalHistory #d14Dec #PrincessAlice #HouseofSaxeCoburgandGotha #Instahistory #RoyalFamily #royal #royalty (at Darmstadt, Hessen) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6EgtgQAWzc/?igshid=1vxtcthnrd17o

On This Day In History, . 6 November 1935 . Prince Henry married Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott . . 👑 Prince Henry was the third son of King George V and Queen Mary. Lady Alice was the daughter of John Montagu Douglas Scott, the 7th Duke of Buccleuch, Scotland’s largest landowner, & Lady Margaret Bridgeman. . ◼ The couple were married in a private ceremony, in the Private Chapel, Buckingham Palace . The Portrait includes; . Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901-2004) . 'Bridesmaid', Lady Angela Christine Rose Dawnay (née Montagu Douglas Scott) (1906-2000) . 'Bridesmaid', Princess Elizabeth, now Queen Elizabeth II (1926-) . King George V (1865-1936), Reigned 1910-36 . 'Bridesmaid', Clare Margaret Hadow (née Phipps) (1920-2006), Wife of David George Hadow; daughter of Charles Bathurst Hele Phipps and Lady Sybil Anne Montagu Douglas Scott . 'Bridesmaid', Anne Hawkins, Daughter of Sir Geoffrey Alan Brooke Hawkins and Lady Margaret Ida Montagu Douglas Scott . Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974) . 'Bridesmaid', Princess Margaret (1930-2002), Daughter of George VI; Countess of Snowdon . Queen Mary (1867-1953), Queen consort of King George V . 'Bridesmaid', Lady Elizabeth Diana Percy (née Montagu-Douglas-Scott), Duchess of Northumberland (1922-2012) . 'Bridesmaid', Moyra Eileen Smiley (née Montagu-Douglas-Scott) (1919-2011) . 'Bridesmaid', Lady Mary Ilona Margaret Whitley (née Cambridge) (1924-1999) . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1935 #RoyalWedding #PrinceHenry #DukeofGloucester #PrincessAlice #DuchessofGloucester #HouseofWindsor #RoyalFamily #BritishMonarchy #D6Nov #Wedding #Royals #WeddingDress #QueenElizabethII #GeorgeV #QueenMary #RoyalHistory #BritishRoyals #RoyalWedding #ElizabethII #TheQueen #PrincessMargaret #buckinghampalace #GeorgeV #KingGeorgeV (at Buckingham Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4ipbFHgbl-/?igshid=1xdz36919r7i8

On This Day In History . 5 December 1969 . ◼ Princess Alice of Battenberg, mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, & mother-in-law of the Queen died aged 84. . . ◼ Alice was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, she grew up in Germany, England & the Mediterranean. She was congenitally deaf. After marrying Prince Andrew of Greece & Denmark in 1903, she lived in Greece until the exile of most of the Greek royal family in 1917. On returning to Greece a few years later, her husband was blamed in part for the defeat of Greece in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), & the family were once again forced into exile until the restoration of the Greek monarchy in 1935. . ◼ In 1930, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia & committed to a sanatorium in Switzerland; thereafter, she lived separately from her husband. After her recovery, she devoted most of her remaining years to charity work in Greece. She stayed in Athens during the Second World War, sheltering Jewish refugees, for which she is recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations" at Yad Vashem. After the war, she stayed in Greece & founded an Orthodox nursing order of nuns known as the Christian Sisterhood of Martha & Mary. . ◼ After the fall of King Constantine II of Greece & the imposition of military rule in Greece in 1967, she was invited by her son & daughter-in-law to live at Buckingham Palace in London, where she died two years later. Her remains were transferred to the Mount of Olives in 1988. . Her marriage produced five children; . ▪  Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark (1905-81), . ▪ Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906–69), . ▪ Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark (1911-37), . ▪ Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (1914-2001), . ▪ Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark (now the Duke of Edinburgh), born 10 June 1921 . . . #PrincessAlice #PrincessAliceofBattenberg #PrincessAliceofGreeceandDenmark #HouseofBattenberg #History #BuckinghamPalace #Royalty  #RoyalFamily #BritishMonarchy #D5Dec #Thebritishmonarchy (at Buckingham Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrAldOCFjK9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zmju5ohfjtst

On This Day In History . 25 December 1901 . Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester was born . ◼ Lady Alice was born, in Montagu House, Whitehall, London, on Christmas Day 1901 as the third daughter of John Montagu Douglas Scott, Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, and the former Lady Margaret Bridgeman, daughter of George Bridgeman, 4th Earl of Bradford. She was therefore a descendant, in an unbroken male (though illegitimate) line, of King Charles II. . About Alice; . ◼ Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, born Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott; was the wife & then widow of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of George V & Mary of Teck. . ◼ The daughter of the 7th Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry, Scotland’s largest landowner, her brothers Walter & William and her nephew John were all Conservative MP's. She was sister-in-law to Edward VIII & George VI & aunt to Elizabeth II. . ◼ She was the mother of Prince William of Gloucester, who died at age 30, & Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Her first cousin, Marian Montagu Douglas Scott, was the paternal grandmother of Sarah, Duchess of York, wife of Alice’s great-nephew, Prince Andrew, Duke of York. . ◼ Princess Alice's niece, Princess Alexandra, shares the name Christabel in honour of their shared birth date, Christmas Day. . ◼ Princess Alice died on 29 October 2004 in her sleep at Kensington Palace at age 102. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1901 #PrincessAlice #D25Dec #DuchessofGloucester #HouseofWindsor #RoyalFamily #Royalty #britishmonarchy #London #Princess #ChristmasDay #Christmas #Thebritishmonarchy (at Whitehall, London) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br0mf4jlP62/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ku3zs6q9k6gs

Their descendants would become connected to several European royal families, including the British monarchy. Princess Alice’s legacy remains remembered through her humanitarian work, her influence on the Hesse dynasty, and her role as a daughter of Queen Victoria during the height of the Victorian era.