Princess Alice of the United Kingdom papers to and from her government ministers, while the Queen secluded herself from all public life. Alice was aided in this task by her younger sister Princess Louise. Although Princess Helena, Louise's elder sister, would normally have been selected to assist, her inability to go long without crying was held against her. Alice's matrimonial plans were begun in 1860 by her mother. Queen Victoria had expressed her wish that her children should marry for love, but this did not mean that her choice of suitors would necessarily be extended to anybody outside the royal houses of Europe. Raising a British
Alice of Norfolk 1360 by writs directed "Edwardo de Monte Acuto", "whereby he is held to have become Lord Montagu". Alice of Norfolk died at Bungay, Suffolk, shortly before 30 January 1352, as the result of an assault by her husband, for which crime he and some of his retainers were indicted. In 1361 one William Dunche of Bungay was pardoned for his part in her death, as well as other felonies. Her heirs were her surviving daughters, Elizabeth, Maud and Joan. At her death, the marriages of two of her daughters were found to belong to the King, and these two daughters