SANDRINGHAM 



down for the day to visit the Prince, took the 

 children of both back with her, leaving the two 

 Princesses together. Princess Alice speaks in 

 her letters of the terrible anxiety of Alexandra. 

 It was on her birthday, December i, that news 

 came that the condition of Lord Londesborough 

 and his valet was hopeless. The Prince was in 

 a comatose condition, but suddenly a gleam of 

 intelligence crossed his face, and he asked the 

 date. "December i. The birthday of the 

 Princess," he murmured, relapsing again into 

 unconsciousness. Alexandra began from that 

 moment to hope ; the crisis came soon after- 

 wards, and finally slow recovery, during which 

 his devoted nurse never left him. The Prince 

 always retained to the end of his life a lively 

 sense of gratitude for the great qualities shown 

 by Alexandra in his direst need. 



