Wasn't she also the one who said, "If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me"? They even named a color after her, "Alice Blue." Which led to a popular song, "My Sweet Little Alice Blue Gown."
Absolutely. You are right on both points. The color matched her eyes — a pale grey blue. My mother used to sing that to me when I was a kid because I had the same color eyes.