Queen Alexandra in portraits/illustrations/etchings...

[Eric_Lowe]

ILN ?

[Maria Sisi]

Alexandra's my favorite British royal, beautiful inside and out. Probably one of the few royals of the golden era I can see myself wanting to personally know!

Young Kitchener meets Queen Alexandra

http://www.burnleyexpress.net/world-war-one/memories/rare-image-of-young-kitchener-1-6683762

Alexandra with grandson Prince George (later Duke of Kent).

Via Barbara Hainsworth

[Maria Sisi]

Alexandra and Valdemar


with her father


Willy, Maria, Alexandra, Valdemar, Thyra at the race course of Klampenborg


King Christian IX, Princess Alexandra Queen of Britain) , sitting Queen Louise with her grandchild  Alexandra of Fife on her knees, right little Alexandra's mum, Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife, and daughter of Queen Alexandra.


all photos courtesy of glucksburg.blogspot.com

[Maria Sisi]

Queen Alexandra and the future Edward VIII

oldeuroroyalty.tumblr.com

[Eric_Lowe]

I think he called her "an old dear" when he had to visit her in Sandringham. Part of the letters to Freda Dudley Ward.

[CountessKate]

I think he called her "an old dear" when he had to visit her in Sandringham. Part of the letters to Freda Dudley Ward.

He actually wrote (York Cottage, Sandringham, 28th December 1920):

"I've got to go & dine chez ma grand-mere again tonight ce qui est assomant ['wearisome': by now Queen Alexandra was almost totally deaf, which made socialising with her very difficult] but dinner parties seem to do the poor old woman good so I suppose it's a kind act to go & my mamma & Mary are dining too.  To think that I've got another whole week of this ghastly existence sans Toi to stick out....."

Hardly an "old dear".

[Yelena Aleksandrovna]

From the National Portrait Gallery, NPG

[Eric_Lowe]

Don't think that was the same letter...he sounded better in this one. I was a bit offended when I saw the "old dear" comment since I am a fan of Alexandra.

[CountessKate]

Don't think that was the same letter...he sounded better in this one. I was a bit offended when I saw the "old dear" comment since I am a fan of Alexandra.

There is no other mention of Queen Alexandra in his letters to Freda Dudley Ward.

[Eric_Lowe]

Must have been another letter...

[KarinK]

From the National Portrait Gallery, NPG

This is lovely!

[Eric_Lowe]

I wonder who were her dressmakers...