Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Part III

[Naslednik Norvezhskiy]

She grew up in and around Dresden, and when her parents died she went to live with her uncle in Berlin. He was the Saxon Minister to Prussia, and he was married to a widow of one of the last German Electors.

What!!!???
I can't believe I've overlooked the fact that Elector Wilhelm II of Hesse-Cassel after his abdication married a second morganatic wife, Karoline von Berlepsch, who was 43 years younger than him and was made Baroness and then Countess of Bergen (a Hessian small town, now a suburb of Frankfurt and married to this Count Karl-Adolph von Hohenthal in her second marriage)!
Those Hesse-Cassels really were quite wonderfully impossible.

[Eddie_uk]

I read somewhere that she died from burns after falling asleep by the fire....

[ashdean]

There is a short biography of her in Meriel Buchanan's "Victorian Gallery" published in the mid 1950's .

[Carolath Habsburg]

Alexandra and someone else feeding pidgeons

[Eric_Lowe]

When did Alix made her trip to Italy ?

[Carolath Habsburg]

[Carolath Habsburg]

This one is SUPERB!

[synnadene]

by Russell & Sons, Chichester (from the session where she is also with her little daughter Maud)

[Carolath Habsburg]

beautiful! pity its so blurry

[Eric_Lowe]

Still she still looks charming. Her great great grandson Lord Frederick Windsor (who just married and move to California) looked just like Alix. The shape of the face and colour of the eyes.

[Clelia]

synadenne thanks for sharing! It's such a lovely image of her!

[Carolath Habsburg]

[Eric_Lowe]

Too many buttions here. I think she was wearing her horse shoe brooch in this portrait.

[Constantinople]

think of those buttons as a handy nose scratcher

[Eric_Lowe]

Interesting concept...like people think of them todays as smarties or M&Ms...