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I AM BROKEN DOWN WITH GRIEF BY THE DEATH OF PRINCESS ALICE OF HESSE
LEOPOLD
(George Albert, 1853-1884, 4th Son of Queen Victoria, Duke of Albany, a haemophiliac, died after an accident on 28th March in Cannes)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed, to his physician Arnold Royle
asking him for his exact address - & be ready to start with me for the Continent early this week (perhaps Wednesday) - & have your uniform quite ready. This is a sad & afflicted house this day. For the 2nd time, Saturday Dec 14th, has proved fatal to our family. I am broken down with grief..., 3 sides 8vo., on black edged mourning paper, no place, no date, Saturday
Item Date: 1883
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Background
Arnold Royle was the Prince's personal physician from 1876 until the Prince's death from a cerebral haemorrhage in 1884. The Queen appointed him a Groom of the Privy Chamber in November 1884, some months after Prince Leopold's death. Prince Leopold's sister, Princess Alice (1843-1878) Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine died at Darmstadt on the 14th December 1878, on the 17th anniversary of her father, Prince Albert's death. Princess Alice was the mother of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Tsar Nicholas II. Autograph Letters from Prince Leopold are rare.
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