Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Queen Victoria’s granddaughter (Part two)
Read part one here. Alexandra quickly fell pregnant, and her sister Marie was writing about it as early as August 1896. “She is very quiet […]
Maria Alexandrovna of Russia
Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Queen Victoria’s granddaughter (Part one)
Alexandra of Edinburgh was born on 1 September 1878 at Schloss Rosenau as the fourth child and third daughter of Alfred, the future Duke of […]
Maria Alexandrovna of Russia – Mistress in her own Kingdom (Part two)
Read part one here. Maria quickly fell pregnant and gave birth to her first child – a son named Alfred – in October 1874. On […]
Maria Alexandrovna of Russia – Mistress in her own Kingdom (Part one)
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna was born on 17 October 1853 as the daughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and his first wife, Empress Maria […]
Queen Victoria & Prince Alfred – The Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
On 6 August 1844, Queen Victoria gave birth to her fourth child whom they named Alfred Ernest Albert. The labour was long and gruelling, and […]
Dagmar of Denmark – Her life as a Princess (Part one)
The Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna’s life is often marked by tragedy. She was from a junior branch of Denmark royalty, who suddenly found herself as […]