Young Alix - Before her Marriage

[hikaru]

It is very intresting to investigate something which is not much known. And very intresting to make the mosaica together.
I do not know, but Alix was an princess.
so maybe some kind of Court Journals or Protocol Meeting Description could be found in Germany or England or  Italy?.
She was a  princess, so her movement schedule had to be fixed somewhere, especially if she had a meeting with some italian aristocracy in Venice.

[hikaru]

I forgot to mention, but I suppose, the report of the Italian Secret Police will be the best, if it could be found.

[Speedycat]

The Hesse Childen with their mother, Grand Duchess Alice in 1877.

[Speedycat]

Another rather unique image of Alix with her Uncle Leopold.  I think this was taken on her visit to England in 1878 shortly after her mother's death.

[bluetoria]

It's a very moving photo. Thank you for posting it. Would it have been taken when Leopold returned to Dramstadt with the Hessians after their visit to Osborne in January 1879? Leopold was a great help to them, wasn't he, after the death of Princess Alice & his death  must have been terribly sad for Alix, particularly since she was still so young.  

[Speedycat]

  Sorry, no other info on the photo then that I got it from "Royalty Digest" magazine and the caption reads Leopold with Princess Alix.  The overall article is called 'An Ordinary Foreign Princeling.....?" and is about Alix's father, Grand Duke Louis.

[Speedycat]

I thought I might have posted this group photo already.  This one is perhaps a year or so earlier becuase Alix looks younger in it and her hairstyle is different.  I have heard Princess Alice was very frugal and it seems here that the older girls are wearing the same dresses as in the earlier photo, perhaps as hand-me-downs.

[grandduchessella]

It's a very moving photo. Thank you for posting it. Would it have been taken when Leopold returned to Dramstadt with the Hessians after their visit to Osborne in January 1879? Leopold was a great help to them, wasn't he, after the death of Princess Alice & his death  must have been terribly sad for Alix, particularly since she was still so young.  

It's the same outfit that Alix is seen wearing in some of the mourning photos taken with QV. They came over to England in Feb 1879 so perhaps then?

[BobAtchison]

...as a related comment - Uncle Leopold gave Alix the gold hoop bracelets that she could not remove later in life.  She seems to have had a special affection for him.

Bob

[grandduchessella]

Uncle Leopold seems to have been a huge favorite with the Hessians and spent a good deal of time with them. He was godfather to Frittie (bitter irony there) and was close to Louis even after Alice's death. Another sad irony was that Victoria's wedding took place when there was still general grieving over the loss of this favorite uncle who had died less than 5 weeks prior.  

[RealAnastasia]

Very sad to know that "Uncle Leopold" suffered from Hemophilia, the same illness  that Alexei had. What an irony! I didn't know that gold hoop bracelet that Alix couldn't remove later in life, was an uncle Leopold's present...

RealAnastasia.

[Rosamund]

In the Nicholas and Alexandra exhibition in Edinburgh the Empress is referred to as Alice-Victoria-Helena-Louisa-Beatrice of Hesse.  I know that whether or not she was Alix or Alice has already been discussed somewhere on this forum, but I wonder if any of the members who are researchers have actually seen her birth certificate. The Louisa mistake could be from the German pronunciation, if the spelling of the name was Luise instead of Louise.  

[Rosamund]

Correct me if I am wrong please.

In English the final sound of Louise is the 's'.  The final sound of Luise is 'er'. Therefore Luis 'er' could be misinterpreted as Louisa.

If not birth certificate, did Alix have a baptismal certificate?

[Val289]

I'm inclined to agree with Thomas_A - regarding the possiblilty that Royal children may not have had birth certificates.  Does anyone know for sure?

As far as her name goes I've always read that it was Alice Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice, after all of her Aunts (and her Mother).

Rosemund, you are right.  In English the final sound of Louise is the "s".

[hikaru]

Nobody had a birth certificate those times ( I mean in Russia) .
They had  the church books, where there was a written line that  ........ daughter of .......... was born at .....
and was baptized at ...... in ...... the name of God Parents are .....
Then when children had to go to school , or if it will be needed for  a salary of the father,  parents went to Church , have got the copy from Metrical Book , then  they went to the notary and have got the Certificate.
Certicitate confirmed  the text of Metrical Book and had a stamp of  a notary and its sign. but it was just A4 paper.
Maybe if Alix attented some schools of courses , she needed Certificate.
Maybe she needed it in order to get the passport.
I do not know if Romanovs had passports?