Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland (1843-1878)

Princess Alice Maud Mary of Great Britain and Ireland was born on the 25th April 1843 at Buckingham Palace, to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819-1861) and Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland (1819-1901). On the death of her father in 1861, she helped her mother with many important jobs, as Victoria was in a period of mourning. A year later, on the 1st July 1862, she married Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine (1837-1892) at Osbourne House on the Isle of Wight. They had seven children together: Victoria (1863-1950), Elizabeth (1864-1918), Irene (1866-1953), Ernest (1868-1937), Frederick (1870-1873), Alice (1872-1918) and Marie (1874-1878). Her husband inherited the dukedom of Hesse and by Rhine in 1978, making Alice the Grand Duchess Consort. She died a year later on the 14th December 1878 in Darmstadt of diptheria, aged only 35