Leyendo me vengo a enterar que Albert la llamaba "Fatima" de pequeña aunque el nickname (por suerte) no pegó lo suficiente para que en su adultez lo siguiera usando, vaya uno a saber sus razones...
Creo que conocíamos la primera versión del cuadro de Eduardo de Moira, la segunda, la definitiva, es la menos conocida, la primera fue inicialmente dejada de lado porque a Albert, el eterno perfeccionista, no le gustaba mucho la pose... tal cual leen.
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2da. y definitiva...
Queen Victoria wrote to the Princess Royal on 15 February 1860: ‘The [miniature] he did of Alice is also most beautifully painted & very like but Papa dislikes the attitude & thinks it unfavourable to Alice so she is going to be painted over again by him
, – a little larger –’ (RA VIC/U 32, 15 February 1860). This version, the superior of the two, was praised by the Prince Consort later that year: ‘The Exhibition of the Royal Academy is very good this year,’ he wrote to his eldest daughter, ‘Moira has painted a very good miniature of Alice, half-length, in a white ball dress, en face’ (RA VIC/Y 190/66, 9 May 1860).