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Eldest daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh, who was the second son of that Queen to whom Baha'u'llah had, in a significant Tablet, addressed words of commendation; granddaughter of Czar Alexander II to whom an Epistle had been revealed by that same Pen; related by both birth and marriage to Europe's most prominent families; born in the Anglican Faith; closely associated through her marriage with the Greek Orthodox Church, the state religion of her adopted country; herself an accomplished authoress; possessed of a charming and radiant personality; highly talented, clear- visioned, daring and ardent by nature; keenly devoted to all enterprises of a humanitarian character, she, alone among her sister- queens, alone among all those of royal birth or station, was moved to spontaneously acclaim the greatness of the Message of Baha'u'llah, to proclaim His Fatherhood, as well as the Prophethood of Muhammad, to commend the Baha'i teachings to all men and women, and to extol their potency, sublimity and beauty.
(389:6)
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