Source:
Alexandra Feodorovna: Diaries and Correspondence, volume 1: Princess of Hesse, 1872-1893, page 8, by George Hawkins, 2023
The letter excerpt:
December 29th 1878
... Think always (as you do) how blessed & happy precious Mama is now — with Frittie and darling May & her own dear father! ...
Above: Alix and her sisters in mourning for their mother Princess Alice.
Above: Princess Marie (May), who had died of diphtheria shortly before Alice, and Friedrich "Frittie", who suffered from hemophilia and died from a brain hemorrhage after falling from a window in 1873.
Above: Queen Victoria.
Above: Princess Victoria.
