![]() ![]() All the children were moved as soon as possible into the cold, unfamiliar surroundings of the old town-Schloss, and from its windows poor little Princess Alix, then barely six, saw her mother's funeral procession wending its way from the New Palace to the family mausoleum at the Rosenhohe. The Grand Duke Louis IV had scarcely recovered from his own severe illness at the time of his wife's death. ![]() It took a long time before those in it could adjust themselves to a life which had lost the hand that guided it. The Grand Duchess Alice's death left an inexpressible void in the Palace. Princess Alix used to say, in after years, that her earliest recollections were of an unclouded, happy babyhood, of perpetual sunshine, then of a great cloud. Left: Queen Victoria with Princess Victoria, Elizabeth and Alix of Hesse, in 1879. ![]()
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