Alice Harriet Blosse Lynch

Countess Alice Harriet von Kessler, née Blosse Lynch (1844-1919), was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, singer, and society figure. She was known to be admired by German Emperor Wilhelm I and was rumored to have been his mistress.

Biography Alice Harriet Blosse Lynch was born on 17 July 1844, in Byculla. Her mother, Caroline Anne Taylor, was the daughter of Colonel Robert Taylor, who served as the king's Minister in Baghdad. Her father, Henry Blosse Lynch of Partry House, was an Anglo-Irish explorer and officer in the Royal Navy. She was a member of the Lynch family, a prominent landed gentry family that was part of the Tribes of Galway.

She was regarded as a great beauty and was known as an accomplished mezzo-soprano singer in society. German Emperor Wilhelm I was an admirer of hers. Rumors circulated that she was Wilhelm I's mistress. Some reports circulated that her children were actually the illegitimate children of the emperor. Her husband was elevated a second time, as a count, in 1881 by Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Köstritz.