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Alexandra of Denmark, Queen of England
Standard Name: Alexandra of Denmark,, Queen of England
Used Form: Princess of Wales
Connections
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosa Nouchette Carey | In her introduction, Carey expresses her wish that her sketches of twelve noble and useful lives be read and studied by women of this generation, and go and do thou likewise be written upon some... |
Textual Production | Marie Belloc Lowndes | Thirty-six years after this publication, MBL
wrote of the way [m]uch is left out that should have been put into official biographies, because of the writer's need to keep a nervous eye cocked on certain... |
Textual Production | Emma Robinson | |
politics | John Strange Winter | JSW
's interest in animal welfare was linked to her passion for dress reform, notably her opposition to the use of birds in decoration or fashion (a letter she wrote to Charlotte Yonge
details how... |
Occupation | Kate Marsden | She also was received by the Princess of Wales
who soon afterwards provided her with a personal introduction to the Empress of Russia
. The empress in turn facilitated KM
's relationships with people in... |
Occupation | Mary Seacole | In the 1870s MS
developed a friendship with Alexandra
(wife of Edward Prince of Wales
), to whom she acted as unofficial masseuse though she was by this time in her late sixties. Andrews, William L., and Mary Seacole. “Introduction”. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, Oxford University Press, p. xxvii - xxxiv. xxxiii Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Leisure and Society | Fanny Kingsley | FK
was well respected by the family's social circle, and attended several notable events with her husband. Both Charles and Fanny Kingsley were invited to the wedding on 10 March 1863 of Edward, Prince of Wales |
Leisure and Society | Sarah Macnaughtan | SM
was formally presented at Buckingham Palace in London as part of her coming out, which was a young girl's rite of passage into high society. She was presented to the Princess of Wales
instead... |
Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | The Prince of Wales, and heir to the throne of Britain, Edward Albert
, married Princess Alexandra of Denmark
. Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press. xvi |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elinor Glyn | James Wallace
, husband of EG
's sister Lucy
, gambled and drank their money away. Lucy finally divorced him in 1889; her mother paid for the divorce with the little money that David Kennedy... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton | On 4 October 1864 Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
married Edith Villiers
, who had a yearly income of £6,000. Together they had three daughters and four sons. After her husband's death, Edith fell into financial... |
death | Mary Frances Billington | The funeral took place at Chalbury, of which her father had been rector and where both her parents were also buried. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 44053 (29 August 1925): 13 |
death | John Oliver Hobbes | A requiem mass was held for JOH
at the JesuitChurch of the Immaculate Conception in Farm Street, London, with an address given by Hobbes's friend Monsignor William Francis Brown
. She was buried... |
Timeline
1883: The Princess of Wales assumed a role of leadership...
National or international item
1883
The Princess of Wales
assumed a role of leadership in English fashion, by preventing the return of the crinoline, and maintaining the current small bonnet despite opposing practice in France.
1889-1893: Augustus Harris rented Covent Garden opera...
Building item
1889-1893
Augustus Harris
rented Covent Garden
opera house, where he instigated many changes. Most notably, French and German operas were performed in their original language for the first time at that venue.
12 November 1905: The Queen's Fund for the Unemployed was established...
Building item
12 November 1905
The Queen's Fund for the Unemployed was established by Queen Alexandra
.
July 1908: The Territorial Force Nursing Service (TFNS)...
National or international item
July 1908
The Territorial Force Nursing Service
(TFNS) was established as part of the War Office
's 1907 Territorial and Reserve Forces Act.
20 November 1925: Queen Alexandra died of a heart attack. Though...
National or international item
20 November 1925
Queen Alexandra
died of a heart attack. Though famous chiefly for her beauty, and often dismissed by historians as a nonentity, she left a legacy of organizations established by her charity work.
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