Young Alix - Before her Marriage

[Helen]

Royalboy, If you want to know more about Alexandra and her friendship with Princess Marie Louise and Princess Helena ('Thora') , you may find "The Memoirs of Emily Loch, Discretion in Waiting - Tsarina Alexandra and the Christian Family"  by Judith Poore an interesting book. It has been published  by Librario; ISBN 1-904440-86-X.

[royalboy202]

Thanks Helen i will try and get that book.

[tyumen]

I have looked thru several of my books and searched the archives of posts here, could someone help w/ answer?
When as Empress, AF would sign her letters to Mrs. Mary Anne Orchard, her former governess, as " Your Old P.Q. # III " What does this mean?

Thanks, Randy

[Helen]

Sophie Buxhoeveden explained this abbreviation on page 32 of her book "The Life and Tragedy of Alexandra Feodorovna ":  "Your Old Poppet Queen No. 3".

[tyumen]

Helen, Thank-You ! You marvelous ! This has been bothering me for ages. How sweet and and endearing. Isn't "poppet" or "puppet" still used in Britain as an affectionate name for a child?

[tyumen]

Sorry, I made an error with post. When reading Sophie Buhoeveden "The Life and Tragedy of Alexandra Feodorova" I see that letters signed by Alix P.Q. #III were written to Margaret Hardcastle Jackson (Madgie) and not to Mrs. Orchard(Orchie) Thanks, Helen for directing to correct info.

[Russka Princess]

i wanted ask i someone know, when Alix has her real first kiss from Nicky , after the request of the engagement from Nicky ?  Or was it before  her engagement ??

Somewhere i has heard that she has become her kiss under a tree, and it has raining.

but I'm not sure if is true.

[clockworkgirl21]

I want to say Hesse, but I have nothing to back it up.

[Russka Princess]

romantic.  they was very happy =)

she was seventeen and he  was twenty-one. For her ist was her first love.

[nena]

I think it happened while they were walking in garden, picking up flowers, in Hesse. I'm not 100% sure.

[tom_romanov]

i know, but its sound so lovly and so romantic.

well it was a match made in heaven between nicky and alix........

[Michael HR]

There's was a true love story if ever there was one. But so unlucky in every thing else that followed.

[Halinka]

They also have a picture of her attending her first ball in the book "Nicholas and Alexandra" if anyone wants I can post the picture.

[Thomas_Hesse]

Actually the Empress was not the first one to scratch her name into the pane. This is a much older tradition in the Hessian Family and to be found in other residences as well - such as Kranichstein, Braunshardt , Fürstenlager and Romrod.

Even in the 18th century the Landgraves of Hesse Darmstadt and their relations used to write on the wooden panels near to the windows in the Grand Drawingroom at Wolfsgarten. The eldest inscription I saw dates back from 1772.

When Ludwig IV. decided to revive the "sleeping beauty" in 1881 he and his children began to scratch their names into the windows. One finds "Ludwig IV 1881" "Ella 1881" "Elisabeth PC" "Alix" "Ernst". The signatures include Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and their children, Adenauer, Britten, Mick Jagger, Menuhin etc

[Helen]

Even in the 18th century the Landgraves of Hesse Darmstadt and their relations used to write on the wooden panels near to the windows in the Grand Drawingroom at Wolfsgarten. The eldest inscription I saw dates back from 1772.

Did you get a tour of the Herrenbau? Wow, lucky you!