When reviewing this book, it is necessary to keep in mind that it was suggested to the author by the family. The palace doors were open to him and he interviewed multiple HRHs and other relatives. Family photos are part of the volume. Princess Alice herself left no diaries, correspondence to her, or memoirs. The author had to piece together family and friend interviews and her own letters sent to others. With information necessarily spotty, perhaps due to the interviewees as much as the distance in the past, some aspects of her life such as her spirituality are perhaps described less well than one would have wished. For those interested in European royalty and its multiple familial alliances it is a fascinating description of an era that lasted from late Victorian through modern times. For the wealth of information, I thought it fairly well written, less ponderous than the British biographies that list every event, in order, every year.