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ALICE

Princess Alice Maud Mary was the second daughter of Queen Victoria, Duchess of Saxony, and Grand-duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was born in 1843 and died in 1878. In 1862 she married Frederick William Louis of Hesse, nephew of the grand-duke, whom he succeeded in 1877. She showed exemplary devotion to her father Prince Albert during his fatal illness and to the Prince of Wales during his attack of fever in 1871. During the Franco-German war she did noble nursing service to both French and Germans. She died from diphtheria caught while nursing her husband and children.
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