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“I could have been quite happy and contented living in a cottage, if I had been able to share my intellectual interests, and intellectual aspirations with a husband whose strong, protective love would have guided me round the rocks strewn in my way by my own nature, outward circumstances, and the excesses of my own opinions. [Princess Alice, in a letter to her husband Prince Louis, 3 October 1876]”

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Princess Alice: Queen Victoria's Forgotten Daughter

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