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Until Princess Alice sank, the Marine Police Force—the branch of the Metropolitan Police that had responsibility for policing the Thames [l] —relied on rowing boats for their work. The inquest into the sinking of Princess Alice found that these were insufficient for the requirements of the role, and that they should be replaced by steam ...
On 3 September 1878, Bywell Castle collided with the paddle steamer Princess Alice in the River Thames at Becton, Middlesex. Princess Alice capsized and sank with the loss of more than 600 lives. [2] Both vessels were held to blame for the collision. [3] Hall Brothers appealed the verdict, and Bywell Castle was held blameless for the collision ...
Princess Alice was owned by the London Steamboat Co and captained by William R. H. Grinstead. The collision occurred in an area where 75 million imperial gallons (340,000 m 3) of London's raw sewage had just been released. The steamer broke into three parts, and many of her passengers drowned in the heavily polluted waters.
A great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Princess Alice of Battenberg, the eldest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse, was born in Windsor Castle in 1885.
In The Crown season 3, a journalist named John Armstrong writes a glowing article about Princess Alice, Queen Elizabeth's mother-in-law. In reality, that never really happened.
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Princess Andrew with her first two children, Margarita and Theodora, c. 1910. Princess Alice met Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (known as Andrea within the family), the fourth son of King George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia, while in London for King Edward VII's coronation in 1902. [9]
On "60 Minutes: A Second Look," hear what it was about former first daughter Alice Roosevelt that captivated America.