The Alexander Palace Time Machine Discussion Forum

A cdv is a photo, the initials stand for "carte de visite".

Wow, amazing photos! Thank you very much for sharing!!

You're welcome.
The photo is from the same session as this one, taken in 1860:

Yes, it's new. It's by the photographer Joseph Albert and is being auctioned in February.

This is Maria Immaculata Luise, countess of Bardi:

No, the woman is Adelgunde of Braganza.

There is a different version, painted because Prince Albert didn't like the first one very much:

http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/421038/princess-alice-1843-1878-later-grand-duchess-of-hesse

Yes, very interesting, especially the excerpt on Mädi. Thanks GD Ella!

Hola!

The book is "The last Courts of Europe. A Royal Family Album 1860-1914". But Robert Massie only wrote the introduction. The picture research and descriptions are by Jeffrey Finestone.

THe photo is spread in pages 88-89, and the description says "Empress Elisabeth on her deathbed, 10 September 1898. She was assassinated at Geneva while boarding a boat - stabbed in the chest, she nevertheless continued walking but collapsed some moments later".

The photo was reproduced by permission of Roger Violet, Paris.

I hope this helps ;-)

I'm very sorry to hear this. My sympathies to family and friends.

Yes, I think that is GD Boris.

Maria Maximilianovna with her husband Wilhelm of Baden, and her in-laws, Karl of Baden and his wife Rosalie gräfin von Rhena.

Another pose, sorry for the size:

It's a photography by Franz Hanfstaengl, so it was taken in Munich.

Beautiful pictures, but I agree with Therry. This is Louise of Sweden. Archives do make mistakes sometimes.

Wera as a child

In my opinion this is Princess Louise of Sweden  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_of_Sweden

I edit to add this link:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portr%C3%A4tt_av_prinsessan_Lovisa,_1861_-_Nordiska_Museet_-_NMA.0051948_1.jpg