As royals go, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, was one of the best-loved – and most redoubtable. In many ways the last great Edwardian lady, she was the longest living British royal before her death on 29 October in 2004, and represented not just a world where monarchy reigned supreme, but a sense of youthful rebellion thanks to her infamous taste for adventure.

Born Lady Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott, third daughter of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch and ninth Duke of Queensberry, Alice grew up in splendour. When in London at Montagu House , the family's mansion on Whitehall , Alice would watch from the window as her grandparents would set off in the state coach for banquets and balls at the neighbouring Buckingham Palace. The Queen of timeless fashion: Elizab

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