Princess Alice of the United Kingdom

"Etiquette" is the one word that best describes life during the reign of Queen Victoria. For those in the upper echelons of society, rules such as the proper forms of address even what to wear were all considered very important to them. However Victorian society did not recognize that there was a lower class. 'The Poor' were invisible. Status was prominent in this era as people were segregated differently depending on their own family wealth. Technically the Victorian era began in 1837 and ended with Queen Victoria's death in 1901, but the period has been stretched out to include the years both before and after these dates, roughly from the Napoleonic Wars until the outburst of World War I in 1914. The Queen was the most influential figure of this era (as queen’s often were), a young queen who became a young wife and mother. She advertised exactly what it was to be a woman during this time period she displayed through domesticity, family, and motherhood which were all things that were highly valued in Victorian society, simply because Queen Victoria herself embodied all of these values. Apart from the queen the woman who started this whole craze of the small waist and large bust, hips was not even a real person. The Gibson Girl, she began appearing in the 1890s and was the embodiment of an ideal female woman of this time portrayed simply by the pen-and-ink illustrations by a man named Charles Dana Gibson, the artist saw his creation as an accurate representation of what…

the people of her time. The novel follows the life of Alexandra Feodorovna chronologically and her journey to become the last Tsarina of Russia. As a child, Alexandra was known as Alix to her family. Alix was the sixth child of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by the Rhine and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom. At a young age, disease was a very prominent part of Alix’s life because diphtheria swept through the nation and claimed the life of her younger sister Marie and her mother Alice.…