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Victoria with the family of her late daughter Alice, in mourning. The girl Alix will become Empress of Russia and die at Yekaterinburg in 1918.
- Archive caption
- Queen Victoria with the Hessian family
- Creator
- W. & D. Downey
- Date
- 1879
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Downey studio, 1879; William Downey died 1915; life+70 expired; US PD via pre-1930 publication · Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Source record
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W. & D. Downey. “Victoria with the Hessian family, in mourning.” 1879. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Hessian_family_with_Queen_Victoria_in_1879.jpg. Viewed via Nostalgia Museum artifact 720, reviewed 22 August 2026. https://getnostalgia.ai/museum/artifact/3lhPAVl5b0Nd2Jr_/720/face/864
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