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by Alice Grand Duchess of Hesse (Author)
Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile handmade reproduction) of the original edition of 1885 (new and popular edition with a memoir by her sister Princess Christian) with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. With portrait. The layout is +65% larger as the original for a better readability. "Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse" is the English translation of her memoirs in German undertaken by her younger sister, Helena with utmost dedication and love for her sibling. The real winner in Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, is not the evocative narrative provided by the author alone. It is the numerous letters which Alice wrote and received from her friends, family and colleagues.
Author Biography
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (Alice Maud Mary, born April 25, 1843, died December 14, 1878), later Princess Louis of Hesse and Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort. Alice was the first of Queen Victoria's nine children to die, and one of three to be outlived by their mother, who died in 1901.
