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

Following the death of her mother, Ella spent some years at Windsor with her grandmother, Queen Victoria. During this time she met & became engaged to Grand Duk

Alexander III called Victoria ‘a pampered, sentimental, selfish old woman,’ while to her he was a sovereign whom she could not regard as a gentleman. But th