This Sketchbook Saturday we’re taking a look at a pencil sketch by Queen Victoria, which shows her third child, Princess Alice, with her new fiancé, Prince Louis of Hesse on 11th December 1860. Just a couple of weeks earlier Louis had arrived at Windsor Castle, where he proposed to Alice on 30th November and remained with the royal family throughout the Christmas period.
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