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Title: A monument to a royal child: Princess Elizabeth of Clarence
Post by: Kritter on February 19, 2018, 08:05:48 AM
A monument to a royal child: Princess Elizabeth of Clarence ? Royal Central (http://royalcentral.co.uk/blogs/a-monument-to-a-royal-child-princess-elizabeth-of-clarence-96569)

QuoteIn the entrance hall of Frogmore House in Windsor Great Park is a sculpture of a royal child, remarkable in the sensitivity of its execution and the fineness of its detail. It may seem at first glance no more than a sentimental monument, made to memorialise a beloved child and so immortalise its youth. The hands and feet of the nine children of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were commemorated in a sculpture by the artist Mary Thornycroft, today to be seen at Osborne House. But this sculpture is different and points to the brief story of a royal child whose life could have turned out very differently, with extraordinary consequences for British history, had she lived. She did not survive infancy and has subsequently become something of a footnote in royal terms, probably not provoking historical curiosity, unless through the study of this sculpture, displayed at Windsor. No other memorial exists to her.
Title: Re: A monument to a royal child: Princess Elizabeth of Clarence
Post by: LouisFerdinand on February 20, 2018, 08:42:34 PM
Princess Elizabeth was christened the day of her birth.   
http://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/adelaide-of-saxe-meiningen/day-history-death-princess-elizabeth-clarence