When she was a teen, the public loved hearing about the exploits of the poker-playing, gum-chewing “Princess Alice” who kept a snake in her purse. By the time she died at age 96, Alice was such an institution in DC that she was known as The Other Washington Monument. With @mikecullinane.bsky.social

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

When Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901, his eldest child, 17-year-old Alice, rose quickly to celebrity status. The public loved hearing about the exploits…