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Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (Alice Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline; 25 February 1883 – 3 January 1981) was a member of the British royal family. She was the longest-lived Princess of the Blood Royal , and one of the longest-lived British royals .
A great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Alice was born in Windsor Castle and grew up in the United Kingdom, Germany and Malta. A Hessian princess by birth, she was a member of the Battenberg family , a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt .
Not only was the Princess Royal the first child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, she also gave them their first grandchild (the future Emperor Wilhelm II, 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) and was the grandmother to both the first of their 87 great-grandchildren to be born, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen (12 May 1879 – 26 August 1945 ...
A great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Princess Alice of Battenberg, the eldest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse, was born in Windsor Castle in 1885.
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883–1981), a member of the British royal family, last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885–1969), great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II
The grandson of Queen Victoria—and grandfather to Queen Elizabeth II—George V was born third in the line of succession and did not expect to become king. ... Princess Alice, Duchess of ...
Princess Alice (Alice Maud Mary; 25 April 1843 – 14 December 1878) was Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine from 13 June 1877 until her death in 1878 as the wife of Grand Duke Louis IV. She was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha .
In The Crown season 3, a journalist named John Armstrong writes a glowing article about Princess Alice, Queen Elizabeth's mother-in-law. In reality, that never really happened.