Born Princess Alice of Albany at Windsor Castle, daughter of Prince Leopold and Princess Helena. 1904 married Prince Alexander of Teck, which meant she was then Princess Alexander of Teck. Mother of Richard, Duke of Gloucester.
First patron of the Kensington Society.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
This garden was created in 1982 by the Kensington Society in memory of Prince...
This building, known as the Queen Mary Wing, is an extension to the hospital ...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
Davidia Involucrata, presented to Gay Christiansen of 18 Kensington Square, f...
The design of this Portland stone clock tower was chosen through competition ...
Ascended throne in 1216, aged 9. Son of King John. Resurrected the Magna Carta. Married Eleanor of Provence who became consort queen. Began the building of the current Westminster Abbey in 1245 ...
Princess Sophia Alexandrovna Duleep Singh was a prominent suffragette in the UK. Her father was Maharaja Sir Duleep Singh, who had been taken from his kingdom of Punjab to the British Raj, and was ...
Born in Hanover as the Crown Prince of the Hanoverian royal family but also related to the British royals. In 1878 he became Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale on the death of his father, the 2nd Du...
King of England. Son of Ethelred the Unready. Born between 1003 and 1005 at Islip, near Oxford. He is regarded as the last king of the house of Wessex. Little is known of his early life, except tha...
Royal prince. Born St Mary's Hospital Paddington, second son (the spare) of Prince Charles and his first wife, Princess Diana.
Artist. Born in Verona as Paolo Caliari (he took his professional name from his birthplace). He trained as a stone-cutter, but under the influence of Titian settled in Venice. He produced frescoes ...
Initially we were puzzled why the Corporation of the City of London would erect a plaque so far to the west of its patch, but our colleag...
At London Sideways we learn that in 1237 the City of London, short of water, were granted a piece of land beside the Tyburn River so that they could lay conduits to carry water to the City. This l...
Statues Hither and Thither has been invaluable in identifying some of the busts and most of the statues. The statues are not labelled and...
This plaque (complete with a misspelling) replaces the English Heritage original which was erected on the previous house on this site, th...
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