{"product_id":"the-lives-and-deaths-of-the-princesses-of-hessethe-curious-destinies-of-queen-victorias-granddaughters","title":"The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse:The curious destinies of Queen Victoria's granddaughters","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gripping family saga and a portrait of a world in turmoil\u003c\/b\u003e\n\nThe 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. \n\nThe youngest sister, \u003cb\u003eAlix\u003c\/b\u003e, married Tsar Nicholas II of Russia; she was assassinated, along with the rest of her family, in a cellar in Ekaterinburg.\n     The second, \u003cb\u003eElla\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\n     The third, \u003cb\u003eIrene\u003c\/b\u003e, married the Kaiser's brother, Prince Henry, and was entangled in the 1918 German uprisings.\n     The eldest sister, Princess \u003cb\u003eVictoria\u003c\/b\u003e, married Prince Louis Battenberg, and became the mother of Lord Louis Mountbatten and grandmother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nTheir 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.  \n\nDrawing on hundreds of previously unseen letters from the sisters as well as from their grandmother Queen Victoria, \u003ci\u003eThe Princesses of Hesse \u003c\/i\u003etakes 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.\n\n\u003cb\u003eBoth 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.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44787039731891,"sku":"9781780726304","price":1160.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17477345669781780726304.jpg?v=1762813586","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/the-lives-and-deaths-of-the-princesses-of-hessethe-curious-destinies-of-queen-victorias-granddaughters","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}