Alice of Great Britain, Grand Duchess of Hesse
Born: April 1843, Windsor Castle
Daughter of: Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1819-1861) & Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
Married: Louis of Hesse (1837-1892)
Children: Victoria, Elizabeth, Irene, Ernst, Frederick, Alix, May
Died of diphtheria: 14 December 1878
"She is really so dear and so good, and I love her so tenderly…Her life in Germany, though she enjoys more liberty than I, and has her husband more to herself, has its disadvantages and I have always admired the way she has taken them." (Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia)
"She is much admired for her really beautiful figure and extreme gracefulness and ladylikeness." (Queen Victoria)
Alice of Spain, Princess of Schaumburg-Waldenburg
Born: 1876
Daughter of: Carlos, Duke of Madrid & Margaret of Parma
Married: 1) Frederick (1872-1910)
2) Lino del Prete (1877-1956)
Died: 1975
Alice of Albany, Princess of Teck, Countess of Athlone
Born: 1883
Daughter of: Leopold of Great Britain (1853-1884) & Helen of Waldeck-Pyrmont (1861-1922)
Married: Alexander of Teck (1874-1957)
Children: May, Rupert, Maurice
Died: 1981
"A dear, very merry, healthy little thing; the eyes (fine large ones with black lashes) are becoming quite brown which is what I so much wished – as since the Stuarts we have had no brown eyes in the family." (Queen Victoria)
Alice of Battenberg, Princess of Greece
Born: 25 February 1885, Windsor Castle
Daughter of: Louis (1854-1921) & Victoria of Hesse (1863-1950)
Married: Andrew of Greece & Denmark (1882-1944)
Children: Margarita, Theodora, Cecile, Sophie, Philip
Died: 1969
Alice of Bourbon Parma, Princess of Spain
Born: 13 November 1917, Vienna
Daughter of: Elias (1880-1959) & Maria Anna of Austria (1882-1940)
Married: Alfonso (12901-1964)
Children: Teresa, Carlos, Ines
Alicia of Bourbon Parma, Grand Duchess of Tuscany
Born: 27 December, 1849, Parma
Daughter of: Carlo III (1823-1854) & Louise of France (1819-1864)
Married: Ferdinand (1835-1908)
Children: Joseph, Leopold, Louise, Antoinette, Peter, Heinrich, Anna Maria
Died: 16 November 1835, Schwertberg
Alix of Hesse, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia
Born: June 1872, Damstadt
Daughter of: Lous (1837-1892) & Alice of Great Britain (1843-1878)
Married: Nicholas II (1867-1918)
Children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, Alexei
Died: Murdered with all her family by Bolsheviks 17 July 1918, Ekaterinburg
“She was tall and slender and carried herself superbly. But all this ceased to count the moment one looked into her eyes - those speaking, grey-soul eyes mirrored the emotions of a sensitive soul.” (Pierre Gilliard)
“A very wonderful person; not perhaps as beautiful as her sister [Ella] but very striking. There was a curious atmosphere of fatality about her….One of [her] outstanding qualities was her loyalty to her adopted country.” (Princess Marie Louise)
“She is terribly shy; the necessity of talking to a group of schoolgirls is torture for her, she has difficulty overcoming her fear in crowded gatherings. It’s noticeable that she does not have her mother-in-law’s charm, and still does not, therefore, inspire general adulation.” (Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich)
Alix of Saxony
Born: 27 September 1901, Villa Wachwitz
Daughter of: Frederick Augustus III (1865-1932) & Louise Antoinette of Tuscany (1870-1947)
Married: Franz Josef Hohenzollern Emden (1891-1964)
Died: 11 December 1990
Altburg of Oldenburg
Born: 1903
Daughter of: Frederick August (1852-1931) & Elizabeth Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1869-1955)
Married: Josias of Waldeck Pyrmont
Died: 2001
Amelie of Saxony
Born: 10 August 1794, Dresden
Daughter of: Maximilian (1759-1838) & Carolina of Bourbon Parma (1770-1804)
Died: 18 September 1870, Dresden
Amelie of the Two Sicilies, Queen of France
Born: 26 April 1782, Caserta
Daughter of: Ferdinand I (1751-1825) & Caroline of the Holy Roman Empire (1752-1814)
Married: Louis Philippe d’Orleans (1773-1850)
Children: Ferdinand, Louise, Marie, Louis, Francoise, Clementine, Francois, Charles, Henri
Died: 26 April 1866, Claremont House
“I sincerely mourn for the dear Queen, and she was so kind to me always. I am sincerely glad she was one of Victoria’s godmothers.” (Princess Alice)
Amelie of Baden, Princess of Furstenberg
Born: 26 January 1795, Karlsruhe
Daughter of: Grand Duke Frederick & Luise Karoline Geyer
Married: Karl Egon II (1796-1854)
Died: 14 September 1869, Karlsruhe
Amelie Auguste of Bavaria, Queen of Saxony
Born: 13 November 1801, Munich
Daughter of: Maximilian I & Caroline of Baden
Married: Johann (1801-1857)
Children: Auguste, Albrecht, Elizabeta, Ernst, George, Anne, Sophie
Died: 8 November 1877, Dresden
“She is like the Queen Dowager of Prussia, her twin sister, and her other sister, Queen Marie, is very like her twin sister, Archduchess Sophie. As they are first cousins, and very fond ones, of my father-in-law, they consider themselves of course our aunts.” (Princess Alice)
Amelie of Sweden
Born: 1805
Daughter of: Gustav Adolph IV & Frederica of Baden
Died: 1853
Amelie of Leuchtenberg, Empress of Brazil
Born: 31 July 1812, Milan
Daughter of: Eugene (1781-1824) & Augusta of Bavaria (1788-1851)
Married: Pedro II (1798-1834)
Children: Amelie
Died: 26 January 1873, Lisbon
Maria Amelie of the Two Sicilies, Infante of Portugal & Spain
Born: 25 February 1818, Pozzuli
Daughter of: Francis (1777-1830) & Maria Isabella of Spain (1789-1848)
Married: Sebastian (1811-1875)
Died: 6 November 1857, Madrid
Amelie of Oldenburg, Queen of Greece
Born: 1818
Daughter of: Grand Duke Auguste & Adelaide of Anhalt (1800-1820)
Married: Otto of Bavaria (1815-1867)
Forced to flee from Greece in 1862
Died: 1875
Amelie of Saxe-Weimar, Princess of the Netherlands
Born: 1830
Daughter of: Bernard
Married: Henry (1820-1879)
Died: 1872
Amelie of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Kohary
Born:
Daughter of: Augustus (1818-1881) & Clementine of Orleans (1817-1907)
Amelie of Brazil, Princess Imperial
Born: 14 December 1831, Paris
Daughter of: Pedro II (1798-1834) & Amelie of Leuchtenberg (1812-1873)
Died: 4 November 1853, Funchal
Amelie of Bourbon Sicily, Princess of Bavaria
Born: 1834
Daughter of: Francis de Paolo (1794-1865) & Louise of the Two Sicilies (1804-1844)
Married: Adalbert (1828-1875)
Children: Isabella
Died: 1905
Amelie of Wurttemberg, Princess of Teck
Born: 1838
Daughter of: Alexander (1802-1881) & Claudine, Countess Rhedey
Married: Count Paul von Hugel
Died of cancer following surgery: 20 July 1893
[Of her death]..”I imagine mortifications must have set in before the end.” (Princess Mary Adelaide)
Amelie, Infanta of Spain
Born: 1851
Daughter of: Antoine Montpensier (1824-1890) & Fernanda of Spain (1832-1897)
Died of T.B.: 1870
Amelie of Orleans, Queen of Portugal
Born: 28 September 1865, Twickenham
Daughter of: Louis Philippe (1838-1894) & Maria Isabella of Spain (1848-1919)
Married: Carlo I (1863-1908)
Children: Luiz Felipe, Maria Anna, Manuel
Died: 25 October 1851, Versailles
(During an assassination attempt on her younger son, she thrust a bouquet into the attackers face)
“She was witty and amusing and there was no difficulty keeping the ball rolling [in conversation]” Frederick Ponsonby
Maria Amalia of Wurttemberg
Born: 1865
Daughter of: Philipp (1838-1917) & Marie of Austria (1845-1927)
Died: 1883
Amelie in Bavaria, Duchess of Urach
Born: 1865
Daughter of: Karl Throdor (1839-1908) & Sophie of Saxony (1845-1867)
Married: William of Wurttemberg (1864-1928)
Children: Marie, Elizabeth, Karola, William, Karl, Margarethe, Albrecht, Rupert, Mechtilde
Died (in childbirth??): 1912
Maria Amelie of Wurttemberg
Born: 1897
Daughter of: Albrecht (1865-1939) & Margarete of Austria (1870-1902)
Died: 1923
Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Born: 28 July 1860, Peterhof
Daughter of: Mikhail (1832-1909) & Cecile of Baden (1839-1891)
Married: Frederick Franz III (1851-1897)
Children: Alexandrine, Frederick Franz, Cecile (and possibly an illegitimate child after her husband’s death?)
Died: 11 April 1922, Eze
(On her wedding day) “...so sweet, as pretty as a rose, beautiful as a fairy...” (Empress Marie Feodorovna)
Anastasia (‘Stana’) of Montenegro, Grand Duchess of Russia
Born: 4 January 1868, Cetinje
Daughter of: Nicholas I (1841-1921) & Milena Vukotic (1847-1923)
Married: 1) George of Leuchtenberg (1852-1912) Divorced 1906
Children: Sergei, Elena
2) Nikolai Nikolaivich (1856-1929)
Died: 15 November 1935, Cap d’Antibes
Maria Anastasia of Bourbon Parma
Born: 25 August 1881, Biarritz
Daughter of: Roberto (1848-1907) & Maria Pia of the Two Sicilies (1849-1882)
Died: 7 September 1881, Biarritz
Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
Born: 18 June 1901, Peterhof
Daughter of: Nicholas II (1868-1918) & Alix of Hesse (1872-1918)
Died, murdered by Bolsheviks: 17 July 1918, Ekaterinburg
“She never whimpered or cried, even when hurt. She was a fearful tomboy…it was not generally known that she had a weak back and the doctors ordered massage…I suppose the doctors were right about the defective muscle, but nobody seeing Anastasia play would have believed it, so quick and energetic she was, and what a bundle of mischief!” (Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna)
“Extremely idle, though with the idleness of a gifted child…She was so lively, and her gaiety so infectious that several members of the suite had fallen into the way of calling her ‘Sunshine’…” (Pierre Gilliard)
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