Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone

I know that Alice's older son Rupert was a hemophiliac. Was Maurice a hemophiliac as well? And was May a carrier?

There were several issued as postcards--I think there was an anniversary or a birthday, perhaps.

There were rumors that Maurice was a hemophiliac--probably because of his brother and his early death--but he apparently wasn't. I think it was meningitis (?) that he died of. It was very sudden.

I don't think May was a carrier but she only had the one daughter. At any rate, there's been no hemophilia in that line.

Alice's being a carrier was a given since the daughter of a hemophiliac will always be a carrier because her father can only pass on an X chromosome with hemophilia on it. Because of this, his son, Charles Edward, would automatically be exempt--save for if by some wild chance Helen would've been a carrier.

What, if anything, did Alice say about her parents?  She obviously had no memory of her father, but must have been told of him by her mother.  Did she and her mother get along well?

She got on well with her mother. Princess Alice had to be one of my favourites. What a truly fascinating life she had. She still remains the oldest surviving Princess of the Blood Royal. The Queen Mother and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester don't really count as they were not born royal. They only married royals.

Is she the oldest period or of the British royal family?

The Windsors are the British Royal Family. She remains the oldest Princess of the Blood Royal in the British Royal Family. The Queen Mother and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester were older but not born into the royal family.

I think gdella may have been refering to the oldest royal of all the royal families, or just the oldest of the British Royal Family. I think she may have been the oldest of both. The only other one I can think of off the top of my head is Anna Battenberg 1874-1971, which would have put her somewhere around 97, younger than Alice.   

Yes, thank you, Keith. That is indeed what I meant.

I think gdella may have been refering to the oldest royal of all the royal families, or just the oldest of the British Royal Family. I think she may have been the oldest of both. The only other one I can think of off the top of my head is Anna Battenberg 1874-1971, which would have put her somewhere around 97, younger than Alice.   

In the Guinness book of records it was a Bourbon Princess who lived longer than either Alice of athlone or Anna of montenegro/Battenberg...

[In the Guinness book of records it was a Bourbon Princess who lived longer than either Alice of Athlone or Anna of Montenegro/Battenberg...]

In the Guinness book of records it was a Bourbon Princess who lived longer than either Alice of Athlone or Anna of Montenegro/Battenberg...

Do not keeps us in suspense!!!

Who was it? 

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I think gdella may have been refering to the oldest royal of all the royal families, or just the oldest of the British Royal Family. I think she may have been the oldest of both. The only other one I can think of off the top of my head is Anna Battenberg 1874-1971, which would have put her somewhere around 97, younger than Alice.   

In the Guinness book of records it was a Bourbon Princess who lived longer than either Alice of athlone or Anna of montenegro/Battenberg...

I couldn't find out who it was--there are so many Bourbons!

Here's what one site had though:

Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Duchess of Gloucester 25 Dec 1901 29 Oct 2004 (102 )
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen (Mother) of Great Britain 4 Aug  1900  30 Mar  2002 (101 )
Infanta Alicia of Spain 29 Jun  1876  20 Jan  1975 (98 )
Duchess Altburg of Oldenburg, Princess of Waldeck & Pyrmont  19 May  1903  16 June 2001 (98)
Princess Alice of Albany, Countess of Athlone 25 Feb 1883  13 Jan 1981 (97)
Princess Eduarda of Liechtenstein, Countess zu Pappenheim 16 Oct  1903 13 Jul  2001 (97)
Princess Marie Adelaide of Lippe, Princess Reuss 30 Aug 1895  25 Jan 1993 (97)
Princess Margarete of Thurn & Taxis, Princess Gaetano of Bourbon-Parma 8 Nov 1909   (97)
Princess Rosemary of Salm-Salm, Archduchess Hubert Salvator of Austria-Tuscany 13 Apr  1904 3 May  2001 (97)
Princess Margrethe of Denmark, Princess René of Bourbon-Parma 17 Sep  1895  18 Sep  1992 (97)
Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary 9 May  1892  14 Mar  1989 (96)
Countess Klara-Maria von Korff gt Schmissing-Kerssenbrock, Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen 31 May  1895  10 Feb  1992 (96 )
Princess Anna of Montenegro, Princess Franz Joseph of Battenberg 18 Aug  1874  22 Apr  1971 (96)
Princess Maria Antonia of Portugal, Duchess of Parma  28 Nov 1862  14 May 1959 (96)
Prince Leopold zu Schaumburg-Lippe 21 Feb 1910 25 Jan 2006 (95 )
Prince Lennart of Sweden, Count Bernadotte of Visborg 8 May  1909 21 Dec 2004 (95) (Finally a male on the list!)
Prince Filiberto of Savoy, Duke of Genoa 10 Mar  1895  7 Sep  1990 (95)

Princess Margaret of Connaught's son, Carl Johan was born 31 Oct 1916 so he's 91 now--inching his way up there! He's QV's last surviving great-grandson and one of just 2 great-grandchildren left now along with Katherine Brandram (nee Greece) who is 94.

Elsa Bernadotte Countess of Wisborg (daughter of Oscar II of Sweden´s son Oscar who married morganaticly) 3 Aug 1893 17 Jul 1996 (102 years!)

Prior to Princess Alice, the longest-lived British princess (born royal, not by marriage) was Queen Mary's beloved Aunt Augusta, first cousin of Queen Victoria. At her death, she was 94 years, 4 months and 16 days old.

There were several issued as postcards--I think there was an anniversary or a birthday, perhaps.

There were rumors that Maurice was a hemophiliac--probably because of his brother and his early death--but he apparently wasn't. I think it was meningitis (?) that he died of. It was very sudden.

I don't think May was a carrier but she only had the one daughter. At any rate, there's been no hemophilia in that line.

Alice's being a carrier was a given since the daughter of a hemophiliac will always be a carrier because her father can only pass on an X chromosome with hemophilia on it. Because of this, his son, Charles Edward, would automatically be exempt--save for if by some wild chance Helen would've been a carrier.

Lady May Abel Smith had 2 daughters and one son...