Queen Victoria’s Journal
26 February 1886On 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’.