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QUEEN VICTORIA (1819–1901) TRANSCRIBED BY PRINCESS BEATRICE (1857–1944)

Queen Victoria’s Journal

26 February 1886

On the day of Princess Alice’s birth, Queen Victoria’s Journal entry records her visiting Princess Victoria of Hesse: ‘remaining with dear Victoria on & off, till, at length, at 20 min to 5 in the afternoon, the child, a little girl, was born’. Princess Alice’s father, Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine, was ‘most helpful & attentive, hardly leaving Victoria for a moment’.


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