The Curse of the Hessian Jewels: Why Victoria’s Gifts to the Romanovs Never Returned

Deep inside the vaults of the House of Hesse lies a magnificent diamond tiara that hasn't been worn in almost a century. It was presented as a gift at a wedding where every single guest was dressed in black mourning clothes, and decades later, it was found completely untouched among the smouldering wreckage of a crashed plane. Today, we are opening the jewellery box of Princess Alice — a woman whose compassion and selflessness went down in history, while her jewels became silent witnesses to a great love, and the fall of two empires.