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The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse

The curious destinies of Queen Victoria's granddaughters

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The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse

Auteur(s): Frances Welch
Narrateur(s): Jilly Bond
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 Named one of Telegraph's 'Best Biographies of the Year 2024'


'full of passions, royal peculiarities and misspelt letters...compellingly told' - Christopher Howse, The Daily Telegraph

'Frances Welch's elegant and intimate group biography returns us to the start of the 20th century, when Queen Victoria's favourite grand-daughters were scattered between Germany, England and Russia'
- Frances Wilson, The Daily Telegraph

'eye-opening' and 'harrowing' - The Daily Mail

'Welch brings the four princesses vividly to life' and 'will delight those who enjoy reading about the lives of royals' - The Times

'brings them vividly to life...a tonic...a gripping read' - Hugo Vickers, The Oldie

'Frances Welch has a gift for bringing royal figures to life, making us care about them and showing us how their stories interweave...this is both a deeply affecting story of four sisters and an informative bit of history' - Ysenda Maxtone Graham, The Spectator

A gripping family saga and a portrait of a world in turmoil

The Princesses of Hesse were Queen Victoria's grandchildren. After the sudden death of her daughter Alice, Queen Victoria took an obsessive interest in the marriage prospects of the four girls she left behind. Very little went according to plan. Fortunately, Queen Victoria did not live to see her direst fears for the girls spouses being realised. She died in January 1901, just before her beloved Hesse granddaughters became caught up in the maelstrom of early 20th century Europe.

The youngest sister, Alix, married Tsar Nicholas II of Russia; she was assassinated, along with the rest of her family, in a cellar in Ekaterinburg.
The second, Ella, married the Russian Grand Duke Serge. After he was assassinated, she became a nun, only to be assassinated by the Bolsheviks twenty-four hours after Alix in 1918.
The third, Irene, married the Kaiser's brother, Prince Henry, and was entangled in the 1918 German uprisings.
The eldest sister, Princess Victoria, married Prince Louis Battenberg, and became the mother of Lord Louis Mountbatten and grandmother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Their lives were all dramatic, and this group biography shows how they interacted as sisters, forever jostling for status and relaying the politics and intrigues that surrounded them.

Drawing on hundreds of previously unseen letters from the sisters as well as from their grandmother Queen Victoria, The Princesses of Hesse takes us on a sweeping journey across the tumultuous landscape of the turn of the century - from the dramas of the Russian Court to the Russian Revolution, and through both World Wars in which they often found themselves on opposing sides.

Both intimate and epic in scope, Frances Welch's biography sheds new light on the four sisters' lives, illuminating a remarkable period of history in the process.©2024 Frances Welch (P)2024 Octopus Publishing Group Biographies et mémoires De l’Ouest Femmes Redevances Guerre

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