Princess Alice of Battenberg was born Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Mary on 25 February 1885 at Windsor Castle in the presence of her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. She was raised as an ...

The year 1923 saw the marital calendar was packed with princely nuptials. The springtime wedding of Albert, Duke of York had ...

Her mother, Princess Alice, was the second daughter of Queen Victoria, making Victoria his great-great-great-grandmother on his father’s side as well.

She was annoyed when Alice breastfed her children, something the Queen regarded as ‘animalistic’; in retaliation, Victoria pointedly named one of her cows ‘Princess Alice’. Irene was ...