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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925)
« Reply #60 on: February 27, 2006, 08:13:25 PM »
Yes, it is, Aliss - Louise's eldest daughter.

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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925)
« Reply #61 on: February 27, 2006, 09:11:05 PM »
Who Alix tried to marry to her nephew Prince Christopher of Greece.  :P

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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925)
« Reply #62 on: February 27, 2006, 10:52:46 PM »
Can we watch the size of the photos? That's part of the reason that the other threads were getting so unwieldy. We've been asked repeatedly by the moderators and the FA to do so.  :-/ Here is what it says in the Rules:

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2. Please use only 72 dpi image sizes and keep the image size to about 4"x4" as the images load to the size you make it. Bigger images would exceed the boundaries of your posting page.  

3. Keep the total file size down, please. Try to keep them no more than about 100k....large files, like 1meg, would slow things way down. we LOVE files between 40 and say 80k, but even up to the low 100s can work ok.




Yes, the one of Alix with Louise on the prior page also has Louise's daughter Alexandra Fife. It was taken on the occasion of Maud's wedding in 1896 at which Alexandra was a bridesmaid. This photo can be found in Geoffrey Munn's great book Tiara's. Louise, of course, is wearing my favorite tiara, the Fife tiara. Alix's is the Rundell Tiara, I think, but I don't have my book in front of me.

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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925)
« Reply #63 on: February 27, 2006, 10:56:40 PM »
I think Louise's tiara was still in the family... ;)

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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925)
« Reply #64 on: February 28, 2006, 04:06:55 AM »
Regarding photo sizes, is the one I posted of Alix and her girls coming up really big on your screeens? It's quite small on mine, yet I'm wondering why the post is spaced out like that..... ???

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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925)
« Reply #65 on: February 28, 2006, 04:56:45 AM »
Your photo size is just fine Mrs Eddy.

I adore the size of photograph - and breakdowns of the photograph - posted by royal netherlands, but that is for purely selfish reasons.

Grandduchessella is absolutely correct.   Those huge images, wonderful though they may be, are impossible for some posters to load.  

We must consider every one.

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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925)
« Reply #66 on: February 28, 2006, 07:10:38 AM »
Another way to save computer "JUICE" is for people to be careful when they reply to a post with pictures.  It is not unusual to find a picture copied in each reply to a single post or the entire text of the original post to be part of the reply.

The IT staff where I work is very strict about teaching the correct way to reply.  It happened after someone did "reply all" on the wrong memo.  Everybody gets a lesson on how NOT to reply to email.

Those members who have a good connections will still appreciate receiving a link to the large version.  I have especially appreciated the quality of Royal Netherland's photo !



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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925)
« Reply #67 on: February 28, 2006, 07:48:47 AM »

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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925)
« Reply #68 on: February 28, 2006, 08:19:16 AM »
That's great RN--thank you.  :)  I hate to be such a stickler, but when I was temporarily exiled to dial-up land for several weeks, I couldn't bring up many threads at all so now I'm always aware of others with the same problems. Like tsaria, I love big images as well, just with a nagging sense of guilt.  :)  

I'll cop to occasionally quoting photographs though.   :(
I try not to (and to only quote pertinent parts of text) but it can be difficult when trying to make a reference to something in particular.  :-/  That's an additional side benefit of smaller pictures--if you do have to quote them, it doesn't take up much space.

Another photo of Alexandra with long hair taken soon after Louise's birth--again, you can see the toll her illness (rhematic fever) had taken.

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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925)
« Reply #69 on: February 28, 2006, 08:34:25 AM »
You're welcome grandduchessella, I will try not to post big images.
But don't be angry if I accidentally post a big image( which I did a the Queen Mary part 2).
Sometimes I just forget to give the address of the picture.
But I hope it doesn't happen  again.
I'm on the good way, I going to do my best. ;)  
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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925)
« Reply #71 on: February 28, 2006, 10:26:50 AM »
The above is one of the famed Alexandra Rose Days. That's Toria in the corner of the carriage, leaning over--she's partially obscured.
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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925)
« Reply #72 on: February 28, 2006, 10:35:00 AM »
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The occasion was a 'Tree Planting' on the Sandringham Estate to mark the 61st birthday of King Edward VII on 9 November 1902. The location was near the 'Coronation Oval' in the centre of the 'King and Queen's Avenue', presented by the tenants, residents and work people of the Sandringham Estate as a 61st birthday present to the King. The Kaiser's visit to Sandringham 8-15 November 1902.

I'm sure Bertie couldn't think of a better birthday present that to spend a whole week with his favorite nephew.  :)



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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925)
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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925)
« Reply #74 on: February 28, 2006, 12:13:45 PM »