Princess Louise,Princess Royal, Duchess of Fife

Ooooh I wonder if that is Marlene's article that she mentioned last year? I believe it was going to be lovely a detailed, and have some juicy bits about Alix's nursing career!!!

The last issue of Majesty I saw had an article on Patricia Connaught. Are there different issues for the US and UK? Marlene's article came out some time ago, I believe. I would've loved to have read her insights on the marriage of the two. It was certainly a popular match with the public.

As a side note, I just obtained a few photos of Alix, including some in her nursing regalia and some taken around the time of Alastair's coming of age. I wish there was more out there (info & photos) nowadays because you have to really get to the contemporaneous sources to obtain a good feel for her and to see her in her royal life. She was covered very well at the time of her wedding though and for about a decade and a half afterwards. There are many photos of her, with Arthur and separately, performing their royal duties. They remind me in their public roles of the present Duke & Duchess of Gloucester--the relatively non-glamorous (but able to get their hands on some serious jewels when needed), steady, dutiful couple that was there for so long in the background of various functions. I've seen less of her in the magazines after Arthur's death, even before her own health worsened.

Yes, by the time of the coronation she was apparently crippled with really bad arthritis.

I am not sure about differing issues US/UK Ella as I am out here in the South Pacific now!!! Where there is very little other than sport, rugby, netball, rugby, shot put...Rugby...rowing....RUGBY.....Ahhhh!
I keep meaning to apply to go on a mailing list!!

Anyway.... GDElla, are you going to include Alix and Arthur in your book? Pretty Please do if you can!!!! 

I totally see your comparison to the Gloucesters! Alix and Arthur were exemplars of working Royals in their day! Though I tend to think Alix was regarded as a tad more 'glamorous' in her day than the very 'well groomed' but not exactly inspiring present Duchess of Gloucester! I often ponder the terrible losses Alix suffered during her life time with the relatively early deaths of Arthur, Alastair and Maud! I often wonder to whom she turned to within the family for solace and emotional support!!! 

On my 'I'd love to write this book someday' list is a book ala Robert Golden's on the lesser known royals. I've been accumulating a lot more information & photos on the Schleswig-Holsteins, Connaughts, Battenbergs (I have a really nice one of Beatrice walking with Leopold not long before his death), Albanys and Tecks. Alix Fife is a particular interest and I'd love to get my hands on Marlene's article.

Oooh...I can not believe I never noticed before, but in my copy of the revised 'Complete Peerage' by George Edward Cockayne, Vicary Gibbs has added details about Macduff's will! He states that it was valued above 1,000,000 pounds and qualifies this, by also pointing out that the will was treated like that of a member of the Royal family and therefore I do wonder how Gibbs managed to have a look at this will. Nevertheless, due to the 'magisterial' nature of this awesome opus, I tend to believe that Gibbs would never have incorporated data unless he had the evidence to hand! 

http://www.ltr.co.uk/properties/scotland/mar

This link provides a few interesting photos of Louise's home Mar Lodge!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar_Lodge

....there are some interesting links on the bottom of the Wikipedia page too.

According to wikipedia Mar Lodge was destroyed by a fire while being renovated in 1991? However they appear to have done a good job of the interior & appears vey original...