King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in their coronation robes. Wikimedia Commons At the Coronation of my grandfather, King Edward VII, what I remember most…

Queen Alexandra had a penchant for collecting stuff and her London residence, Marlborough House, and country retreat, Sandringham, became cluttered with trinke…

Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom ( 6 July 1868 – 3 December 1935) was the fourth child and second daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. A you…

Louise Victoria Alexandra Dagmar was born on  February  20, 1867 at Marlborough House, the London home of her parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales, later …

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

There was once story that when the future Queen Alexandra, then still a princess, was a very young girl, she and two of her girl friends were wandering in a …

Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia. Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark shared a love match made in heaven with Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovitch o…

Marlborough House South Side. Image from Wikimedia Commons Marlborough House, situated in St. James's in Westminster, Inner London, has been standing…

Prince John at York House. Image: Wikimedia Commons Prince John, the youngest of the six children of George Frederick, Prince of Wales (later King Geo…

Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Kokoshnik tiara. Image: Reginald Davis/REX/ Shutterstock via Mail Online In 1888, the Prince and Princess of Wales (futur…

Queen Alexandra with her sister, Empress Maria Fedorovna of Russia (right) and her daughter,  The Princess Victoria (left). Image: Wikimedia Queen Ale…

The marriage of Prince Carl of Denmark and Princess Maud of Wales by Laurits Tuxen. Source: Wikipedia On July 22, 1896, Prince Carl of Denmark (soon to …

Marriage of the Prince of Wales by William Powell Frith (1865). Source: Wikimedia Commons The wedding ceremony of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and he…

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…

Queen Alexandra’s singular beauty and charm endeared her to the British people the moment she stepped foot on the English soil in 1863. In fact, the arriva…

Queen Alexandra From The Morning Leader, November 21, 1925 Queen Alexandra is Dead. The whole empire will be saddened by the death of the Queen Mother…

The Coronation Procession. Image: National Army Museum London, Aug. 9, 1902 The New York Times reports the sequence of the Coronation Procession of King …

Queen Alexandra (right), with Princess Victoria (left) and King Edward VII (seated) London, Dec. 1, 1903-- The New York Times reports that festivities sur…

Edward VII, when he was still Prince of Wales It’s been a known fact that King Edward VII was known for his womanizing and carefree lifestyle while he wa…