Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
Princess Alice was Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine from 13 June 1877 until her death in 1878 as the wife of Grand Duke Louis IV. She was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Alice was the first of Queen Victoria's nine children to die, and one of three to predecease their mother, who died in 1901. Her life had been enwrapped in tragedy since her father's death in 1861.
Photograph by Franz Backofen, 1871
Painting of baby Princess Alice by Edwin Landseer, 1843. Prince Albert ordered this painting as a surprise gift to his wife.
Alice (right) and her sister Victoria in the 1850s
Princess Alice, 1859
Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
Louis IV was the Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 13 June 1877 until his death in 1892. Through his marriage to Queen Victoria's second daughter Alice, he was connected to the British royal family. Two of his daughters married into the House of Romanov.
Ludwig IV, 1878
The Equestrian statue of Ludwig IV on the Friedensplatz in Darmstadt
Image: Victoria Hesse 1863
Image: Elizabeth Fyodorovna of Russia