She was also the granddaughter of Queen Victoria, the daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (who was Queen Victoria’s third child and second daughter), and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and ...

Princess Alice lived with the royal family ... hearing the stories that her grandmother would tell about Victoria being present at Alice’s birth.” More recently, Alice has become more ...

the then-Duchess of Kent — are on display at a new exhibition at Victoria’s childhood home, Kensington Palace. Among the other guidelines for the future queen: “the Princess is to sleep in ...