Alice was always lovely throughout her life. She inherited her beautiful cheek bones from her father.

I've read that James Pope-Hennessy,Queen Mary's biographer,found that the Gloucesters were charming and down to earth, and that Henry was much more intelligent than many people thought. The Gloucesters were consistently underrated and Alice felt they were rarely given the recognition they deserved. On the other hand,Alice was a lifelong friend of the late QM and they comforted each other after their respective husbands died.