![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She was always thinking of England, and she built and furnished her new home to give her memories of the home she had left. She married and left England shortly after the death of her father, the Prince Consort, having been the Queen's support and comfort during the time of the Prince's illness. She was intensely English her attachment to her own country never wavered. The Princess Alice went to Germany as a very young girl. In that palace the future Empress was born.Ībove: ClockwiseElizabeth, Grand Duke Louis with May in his arms, Alix, Alice, Victoria seated, Ernest Louis kneeling, Irene. It was built according to the Princess's own taste and was made by its owner as much like an English house as possible. For a town house the New Palace had a lovely garden, the site having originally been that of the Botanical Gardens. It was the house Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland," the second daughter of Queen Victoria, wife of Prince Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt, had built for herself when her first home proved too small for her rapidly increasing family. ![]() In the middle of the small, old-fashioned town of Darmstadt, surrounded by quiet, dignified streets, belonging to a time long gone by, stands the New Palace. ![]()
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