Please answer the following question: Facts:   - issue: prince waldemar prince sigismund prince heinrich    - death place: hemmelmark , west germany    - title: princess of prussia    - caption: princess youth irene of hesse and by rhine during her    - mother: princess alice of the united kingdom    - spouse: prince ; his death -rrb- heinrich of prussia -lrb- m. 1888 -- 1929    - death date: 11 november 1953      - house: house hesse-darmstadt -lrb- by birth -rrb- of hohenzollern -lrb- by marriage -rrb- house of    - father: ludwig iv , grand duke of hesse    - birth date: 11 july 1866    - name: princess irene of hesse    - image: ireneofhesse2-1 - . jpg    - birth place: new palace , darmstadt , grand duchy of hesse   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of princess irene of hesse and by rhine .
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princess irene of hesse and by rhine -lrb- `` irene louise marie anne princess of hesse and by rhine '' , 11 july 1866 -- 11 november 1953 -rrb- was the third child and third daughter of princess alice of the united kingdom and ludwig iv , grand duke of hesse and by rhine .her maternal grandparents were queen victoria and prince albert .her paternal grandparents were prince charles of hesse and by rhine and princess elizabeth of prussia .she was the wife of prince heinrich of prussia , a younger brother of kaiser wilhelm ii and her first cousin .the ss `` prinzessin irene '' , a liner of the north german lloyd was named after her .her siblings included princess victoria , wife of prince louis of battenberg , grand duchess elizabeth feodorovna of russia , wife of grand duke sergei alexandrovich of russia , grand duke ernest louis of hesse-darmstadt , and tsarina alexandra feodorovna , empress consort of tsar nicholas ii of russia .like her younger sister , the tsarina , irene was a carrier of hemophilia gene , and irene would lose her sisters alix and elisabeth in russia to the bolsheviks .