Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, Part III

[Eric_Lowe]

RIP for that brilliant princess !

[MademoiselleAndrea]

Rest in Peace. It's a pity she never got to see her daughters get married, or have children. 

[Eric_Lowe]

Had she lived, Alicky would not have turned out as she was. The influences of Margaret Jackson would have been checked by Alice's example.

[violetta]

[RealAnastasia]

Rest in peace, sweet, dearest and intelligent princess!
RealAnastasia.

[Eric_Lowe]

She is my favourite of QV's daughters.

[violetta]

with her sister vicky




with her husband and 2 elder daughters

[Eric_Lowe]

Princess Alice looked very serious in the pictures. Her son Ernie said actually Alice loves to laugh and have great sense of humor...

[Russka Princess]

i think the whole family have a great sense of humour.. think of Ludwig IV, Ella, ernie and VHM they has a great sense of humour..i dont know how it is by Alix and Irene but i think they was funny (sometimes too)

[Eric_Lowe]

I think Alicky too has a sense of humour (that was before her marriage into Russia).

[Thomas_Hesse]

Currently for sale on ebay: page with signatures of various Hohenzollers/Badens including Alice and Louis of Hesse

[Eric_Lowe]

Are you going for it ?

[blessOTMA]

i think this picture was painted posthumously i.e. after alice`s death.is this so?

it would seem so ...and imo, this photo was used

[grandduchessella]

Von Angeli arrived in the spring of 1878 to work on the painting. He took a good number of photographs. Most of the work was completed before the Grand Duchess died that year. Alice wrote several letters to Queen Victoria detailing the sitting and why they picked the chilren they died--Victoria being 'too big' for instance though being the eldest she should have been in, she would have been 'too preponderant. Also that von Angeli was quite 'quite lost in admiration of Aliky and May'.

[blessOTMA]

grandduchessella, thank you for that info!