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PRINCE ALEXANDER OF HESSE AND BY THE RHINE: (1823-88) Prince Alexander was de brother of Tsarina Mar... - PRINCE ALEXANDER OF HESSE AND BY THE RHINE : (1823-88) Prince Alexander was de brother of Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna, wife of Tsar Alexander II. Prince Alexander married Countess Julia von Hauke, a lady-in-waiting to his sister. Because of the disapproval of the Tsar, forbidding the marriage, Prince Alexander and Countess Julia eloped from St. Petersburg and married in Breslau. The Battenberg-Mountbatten family descends from this couple. Two good A.Ls.S., ` Pr. Alexander de Hesse´, both two pages, 8vo, Heiligenberg, 12 th July, n.y., the first and 15 th October 1805 the second, both to Monsieur le Comte, in French. To the first letter, Prince Alexander states ` Voici le travail sur les lettres de Marie Antoinette que vous avez eu l´obligeance de me prêter… je tenais a parcourir votre intéressant travail de concert avec le Grand-Duc…. Je veux vous encourager tres fort a preserver dans l´intention de publier les lettres..´ (“Here is the work on the letters of Marie Antoinette that you were kind enough to lend me… I wanted to browse your interesting work together with the Grand Duke…. I want to strongly encourage you to preserve with the intention of publishing the letters..”). To the second, Prince Alexander thanks his correspondent for the book published and for having sent a copy to him, stating in part `.. C´est avec un veritable intérêt que j´ai relu ces lettres de Marie Antoinette a mon aïeule… et je suis enchanté que votre publication a fait bon effete n France, où l´intérêt qu´inspire la Reine martyre ne se refroidit point´ (“It is with real interest that I re-read these letters from Marie Antoinette to my grandmother... and I am delighted that your publication has had a good effect in France, where the interest inspired by the martyr Queen is not reducing”) VG