Alexandra of Denmark, Queen of England

The funeral took place at Chalbury, of which her father had been rector and where both her parents were also buried. A memorial service was held at St Bride's...

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...

The Prince of Wales, and heir to the throne of Britain, Edward Albert , married Princess Alexandra of Denmark .

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...

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...

LDG was visited by a number of Europeans who were travelling through Egypt. Shortly before her death the Prince and Princess of Wales visited her on the Urania. She exacted a promise from the...

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

ER turned from prose to poetry to issue, again as the author of Whitefriars, an Epithalamium in honour of the marriage of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales.

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...