Career
He was killed at age four in an airplane crash in 1937. The plane crashed into a factory chimney near Ostend, Belgium. Some have considered the Hessian family victims of a family curse due to the number of premature deaths in the family.
Alexander was a great-nephew of Tsarina Alexandra and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, both of whom were killed with family members during the Russian Revolution of 1917.
He was also a nephew of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.