On 3 January 1981, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, died at Kensington Palace in London, a few weeks short of her ninety-eighth birthday, and with her death no grandchild of Queen Victoria remained alive.
Her life began at Windsor Castle in 1883. Between those two dates she lived through six reigns, attended four coronations, followed her husband to postings in South Africa and Canada, and watched her only brother join the Nazi Party.
How did a girl who lost her father before her second birthday end up welcoming Churchill and Roosevelt to wartime Canada, and still crossing the Atlantic in her eighties to raise money for a Caribbean university?
And what did it cost her to stay loyal to a brother who chose Hitler while she spent the war on the other side?