She was born into the most powerful royal family on earth, and she is one of its most overlooked figures. Princess Alice, the third child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, was a woman of remarkable tenderness who spent much of her life nursing the sick, comforting the dying, and holding her family together through grief.

This video follows her full life, from her birth at Buckingham Palace in 1843 to the strange circumstances of her death, which fell on the exact anniversary of the loss that had broken her when she was young. Along the way it covers the Victorian royal household, the demanding influence of Prince Albert, and the quiet legacy Alice carried into the crowned houses of Europe.

This is the calm, unhurried story of a princess history has largely passed by.

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