Queen Louise of Denmark, c1893. Image under Creative Commons license.  In the Life of Queen Alexandra , author Sarah A. Southall Tooley describes Queen Lo…

Maria Pavlovna the Elder by François Flameng, 1898.  Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, born Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, was the unrivalled society q…

Empress Maria Feodorovna. Image from Wikimedia Commons The Romanovs of Russia were overthrown in 1917 and it was only in 1919 that Empress Maria Feo…

Hvidøre, the Danish summer house of Queen Alexandra and Empress Maria Feodorovna.  Image: Wikimedia Hvidøre is not as grand as any Russian palace or as…

A portrait of Empress Maria Feodorovna by Kramskoj. Image: Wikimedia Commons Marie Sophia Frederika Dagmar was born on November 26, at the Yellow Palace…