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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Part II
« Reply #615 on: February 17, 2009, 03:13:36 PM »

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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Part II
« Reply #616 on: February 17, 2009, 05:59:13 PM »
Here s another one of the coronation


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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Part II
« Reply #617 on: February 19, 2009, 01:34:16 AM »

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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Part II
« Reply #618 on: February 19, 2009, 06:37:50 AM »
I have to say that is the first picture I've seen of Alexandra where her hat seems to be overwhelming her !

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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Part II
« Reply #619 on: February 19, 2009, 09:21:21 AM »
It's part of a larger sitting, the other people have been photoshopped out. I forget who all was there but Edward VII was sitting in the chair next to her.
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« Reply #620 on: February 19, 2009, 11:41:30 AM »
She seemed to be dressed in a tent...

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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Part II
« Reply #621 on: February 23, 2009, 04:50:35 AM »
Was Queen Alexandra named after her aunt Grand Dss Alexandra of Russia who had married her mothers brother Fredrick Landgrave of Hesse-Kessel?

She was actually named for the Grand Duchess's mother, the Empress Alexandra (princess Charlotte of Prussia), who was one of her godmothers

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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Part II
« Reply #622 on: February 24, 2009, 03:57:15 AM »
And my favourite - as Mary Stuart


Alexandra is dressed as Mary Stuart at a fancy-dress ball given in 1871 in London. She holds this fan in her hand, presumably a gift from the Brzailian Emperor:
http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/eGallery/object.asp?searchText=fan&pagesize=20&object=25415&row=58

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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Part II
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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Part II
« Reply #624 on: February 24, 2009, 03:54:07 PM »
This is one of those 'rub out everyone from the background' shots. The occasion was the marriage of Princess Margaret of Connaught to Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden in 1905.
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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Part II
« Reply #625 on: February 25, 2009, 01:16:41 AM »
yeah, im pretty sure that is from the National Portrait Gallery and it is miss-id'd on their website.

It is a rather common image though.

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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Part II
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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Part II
« Reply #627 on: February 25, 2009, 10:39:28 AM »
Ok...we all know that Alix was a beauty, but the "artist" who made this portrait thought different...



This has to be one of the worst portraits of Alix i ve ever seen....


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"...Пусть он землю бережет родную, А любовь Катюша сбережет....". Grand Duchess Ekaterina Fyodorovna to Grand Duke Georgiy Alexandrovich. 1914

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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Part II
« Reply #628 on: February 25, 2009, 12:17:28 PM »

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Re: Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Part II
« Reply #629 on: February 26, 2009, 05:38:57 AM »
One of her most stunning pïctures


Love the hair!


With Eddy


Beautiful painting