Alice, Princess of the United Kingdom

## Alice

 **Alice, Princess of the United Kingdom** (née **Spencer**; 19 March 1819 – 11 February 1880), was a member of the British royal family (by marriage), and the Greek royal family (through both marriage and blood relations). She was the late wife of Prince Julian of the United Kingdom, the late younger brother of Edward VII making her the paternal aunt of Prince Albert Victor and the Prince`s younger siblings; their only children (Princess Anne and Princess Sabrina, and Prince Fredrick) were greatly popular with the public. She was the youngest member of the Spencer House to be married (at the age of sixteen) and off to a prince none-the-less. Her blood and dynastic ties to the Dagmarian Imperial Family, Corthe Star`s First Family, and the Avalonian Royal Family made her a highly-suitable candidate to become his wife. Her father (Norman) was a Lord of the House of Spencer and her mother (Petunia Nikolaevna) was an Imperial Russian Princess; making Alice one of the most important noble ladies of her day and age.

## Early life

Alice Margaret Mary was born with the honorific "The Honourable"; she acquired the courtesy title "Lady" in 1846 when her uncle ascended as the 4th Earl Spencer. She suffered from both anorexia nervosa and a severe case of asthma in her early childhood and henceforth from that point. She was educated underneath the Kensington System, becoming demure and nearly mute as a result of the system itself.

## Family

Alice married Prince Julian of the United Kingdom (1 April 1863 – 11 February 1880), son of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, on 17 March 1877 at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. Prince Julian and Alice had three children:

* Princess Anne of the United Kingdom (17 April 1877); she married Prince Eren of Hesse and by Rhine on 18 March 1896. They have four children:
	+ Princess Rosemary of Hesse and by Rhine (17 January 1896)
	+ Princess Adolfina of Hesse and by Rhine (19 January 1897)
	+ Prince Rudolf of Hesse and by Rhine (20 January 1899)
	+ Princess Carlotta Carla of Hesse and by Rhine (29 May 1900)

* Princess Sabrina of the United Kingdom (29 April 1877); she married Prince Claudius, Duke of Winchester on 18 March 1899. They have one child:
	+ Prince William Charles Claudius (17 January 1900)

* Princess Fredrick of the United Kingdom (31 December 1879); she married Marquess Leopold of Catherine on 1 January 1899. They have two children:
	+ Lady Mayumi of Catherine (31 December 1900)
	+ Lady Constance of Catherine (29 December 1914)

## Relationship with Lady Augusta Spencer

After Augusta`s death, conflicting views about the two siblings` relationship was voiced. The siblings` various nannies, Amelia Burrell, Anne Clarke, Wilhelmina von Hinderburg, and Jessica York stated that the strained relationship was due to Augusta being a hemophiliac possessing the rare subtype of the disease known as hemophilia B. Their two twin governesses, Isabella von Hinderburg and Isobel von Hinderburg presented a very different viewpoint, stating that all of the boys possessed hemophilia, and only one girl of the siblings was a carrier of the rare subtype of hemophilia B, Lady Sarah Spencer (later Empress Anastasia Feodorovna); in addition, Augusta never showed any sign of possessing the rare subtype of hemophilia B and was despised by her older siblings due to the favoritism towards her by the siblings` parents. It is not clear when their relationship deteriorated (it was generally assumed to be underneath their teenager years); as their diary entries seem to suggest