The Grand Duke Louis IV had scarcely recovered from his own severe illness at the time of his wife's death. It took a long time before those in it could adjust themselves to a life which had lost the hand that guided it. The Grand Duchess Alice's death left an inexpressible void in the Palace. Princess Alix used to say, in after years, that her earliest recollections were of an unclouded, happy babyhood, of perpetual sunshine, then of a great cloud.
Left: Queen Victoria with Princess Victoria, Elizabeth and Alix of Hesse, in 1879.
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