Alice of the United Kingdom
Princess Alice Maud Mary of the United Kingdom.
She was named Alice in honor of Prime Minister Lord Melbourne, who had once remarked that it was his favourite name; Maud, the Anglo-Saxon form of Matilda, in honor of her godmother Sophia Matilda of Gloucester; and Mary for her great-aunt Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, with whom she shared her birthday.
Daughter of Albert, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819-1861) and Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)
Born: Buckingham Palace, London 25. Apr 1843
Christened: Private Chapel, Buckingham Palace 3. Jun 1843
Godparents:
Ernst August, King of Hanover (her maternal great-uncle)
Ernst, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (her paternal uncle)
Feodora, Fürstin zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (born Princess zu Leiningen, her mother’s half-sister)
Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester (hermaternal grandfather’s cousin, a niece of King George III)
Married: Osborne House 1. Jul 1862 Ludwig, Hereditary Prince of Hesse and by Rhine, who succeeded as Ludwig IV., Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine in 1877 (1837-1892), son of Karl, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (1809-1877) and Elisabeth, Princess of Prussia (1815-1885).
Issue:
Victoria, Princess of Hesse and by Rhine (1863-1950) m. 1884 Ludwig, Prince of Battenberg, later Marquess of Milford Haven (1854-1921)
Elisabeth, Princess Hesse and by Rhine (1864-1918) m. 1884 Sergei Alexandrovich, Grand Duke of Russia (1857-1905)
Irene, Princess of Hesse and by Rhine (1866-1953) m. 1888 Heinrich, Prince of Prussia (1862-1929)
Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1868-1937) m. 1894 (div. 1901) Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1876-1936); m. 1905 Eleonore, Princess of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (1871-1937)
Friedrich, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (1870-1873)
Alice (Alix), Princess of Hesse and by Rhine (1872-1918) m. 1894 Nikolai II. Alexandrovich, Emperor of Russia (1868-1918)
Marie, Princess of Hesse and by Rhine (1874-1878)
Died: New Palace, Darmstadt, Hesse 14. Dec 1878 from diphtheria
Buried: Royal Mausoleum, Rosenhöhe, Darmstadt
Marlene A. Eilers ”Queen Victoria’s Descendants”, Rosvall Royal Books 1997; Alison Weir: “Britain’s Royal Families”, Vintage Books 2008; Detlev Schwennicke "Europäische Stammtafeln. Neue Folgen", Vol. III/1, 1983, Verlag J. A. Stargaardt; for christening see Yvonne Demoskoff: Yvonne’s Royalty Home Page http://users.uniserve.com/~canyon/index.htm