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LATER LIFE Princess Alice's concern about the poor nursing conditions for wounded soldiers during the 1866 Austro-Prussian War , led her to found the ''Alice-Frauenverein'', or Women's Union, to train nurses and auxiliary workers. On 13 June 1877 , Prince Ludwig succeeded his uncle as the reigning Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Alice became the Grand Duchess. However, in November 1878 , the Grand Duke and all but one of the children, Princess Elizabeth, fell ill with Diphtheria ; Princess Marie died of the disease. Exhausted by nursing all of them, Alice succumbed to the disease and died at the Neues Palais in Darmstadt on 14 December , the anniversary of her father's death. Alice is buried at Rosenhöhe, the mausoleum for the Grand Ducal House of Hesse outside Darmstadt. TITLES
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