This was especially true when it came to Victoria, Ella, Irene and Alix, daughters of the Queen’s third child, Alice, and her husband Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. The Queen kept a beady eye on ...

In May and June of 1894 Princess Alix of Hesse, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, visited Harrogate. She stayed at Cathcart House on West Park, the home of Mr and Mrs Allen. On her arrival there ...