3-052-448 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Memorial Cross of Princess Alice at Balmoral, [Scotland], 1880. 'Her Majesty the Queen has erected a monumental cross to the memory of her beloved daughter, the late Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, at Balmoral Castle. It is composed of a monolith of dark rich grey granite, about 12 ft. high, which is fixed in a cairn of rough quarry-hewn granite procured from a quarry on her Majesty's property. It is erected on a knoll in the grounds at Balmoral, about half a mile west of the castle, and faces eastward, looking down the river Dee. We give an Illustration of this monument, which is an object of attraction to travellers on the high road from Aberdeen to Braemar. The monument was designed and executed by Messrs. A. Macdonald, Field, and Co., of the Granite Works, Aberdeen, and of Euston-road, London'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.