Louis IV Grand Duke of HESSE
Individual:
NAME: Alix
Tsarina of Russia. a.k.a.: Empress; Alicky; Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt; Princess of Hesse-Darmst adt; Alix Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice, Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt; Named Alix after her mother, Princess Alice of England, the third of Queen Victoria's nine children. Her mother called her, Sunny. Alix is the closest Germanic pronunciation of Alice. Alexandra had red-gold hair. The Empress and her powerful influence on her husband may have contributed to the downfall of Imperial Russia. she seldom smiled, was deeply religious and turned to a Siberian peasant monk, Gregory Rasputin (later murdered) for spiritual consultation, primarily because of the hopelessness of her son Alexis' hemophilia. Her Russian was not very good. She was hated by the Russian Nobility and the people of Russia (who considered her too Germanic).
He married Alice Maud Mary Wettin, Princess of England 1 Jul 1862 at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, Wales . Alice Maud Mary Wettin, Princess of England was born at Buckingham Palace, London, Middlesex, England 25 Apr 1843 daughter of Albert Augustus Charles Saxe Coburg Prince and Victoria I Hanovre, Queen of England .
They were the parents of 7
children:
Victoria Alberta of Hesse Princess
born 1863.
Elizabeth Ella Hesse, Grand Duchess
born 1864.
Irene of Hesse, Princess
born 1866.
Ernest Louis of Hesse, Grand Duke
born 1868.
Frederic Hesse
born 1870.
Alexandra Fedorovna Alix Hesse, Tsarina
born 6 Jun 1872.
Mary May Hesse
born 1874.
Louis IV Grand Duke of Hesse died 13 Mar 1892 at Neues Palais, Darmstadt, Germany .
Alice Maud Mary Wettin, Princess of England died 14 Dec 1878 at Neues Palace, Darmstadt, Germany .