Despite Alexandra's pleas for privacy, Queen Victoria insisted on announcing a period of court mourning, which led to unsympathetic elements of the press to describe the birth as " a wretched abortion " and the funeral arrangements as " sickening mummery ".

Alexandra's widowed sister, the Dowager Empress, leant heavily on her for support ; Alexandra slept, prayed, and stayed beside her sister for the next two weeks until Alexander's burial.

Nicholas ordered Rasputin to leave St. Petersburg for a time, much to Alexandra's displeasure, and Rasputin went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

After the scandal, Nicholas ordered Rasputin to leave St. Petersburg for a time, much to Alexandra's displeasure, and Rasputin went on a pilgrimage to Palestine.

His first cousin, James George Alexander Bannerman Carnegie ( b. 23 September 1929 ), succeeded as 3rd Duke of Fife and Earl of Macduff, upon Princess Alexandra's death on 26 February 1959.

Almshouse accommodation in High Street Chatham on the border with Rochester may be granted by the Governors to a needy or disabled man or woman who has served in the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, WRNS, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service, or who has been employed in the Royal Dockyards in the construction, repair, maintenance or re-fitting of RN vessels ; and under the broadening of the charter those who served in the Merchant Navy, the Army, the Royal Air Force or who saw active service in the Reserve Forces may apply.

Smiley then writes a letter to Karla, which Grigoriev passes on instead of his usual weekly report on " Alexandra's " condition and the minutiae of her treatment.

* Dame Doris Beale, Matron-in-Chief of Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service for three years during the Second World War was born in Forest Hill on 9 August 1889.

At the start of the war Gracey was commanding the 2nd Battalion 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles on the North West Frontier of India.

Alexandra's parents were married on 24 April 1817, at Kirchheim unter Teck.

Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles has 36 battle honours, though only 22 battle honours are shown on the Guidon.

Church Road has seen the start of the career of a number of players who went on to higher levels, among them Les Ferdinand, Cyrille Regis, Blackburn Rovers striker Jason Roberts, Crewe Alexandra's Justin Cochrane and French goalkeeper Bertrand Bossu.

It was formed by the amalgamation of the 15th The King's Hussars and the 19th Royal Hussars ( Queen Alexandra's Own ) on 11 April 1922, becoming the 15th / 19th Hussars.

After Queen Victoria's death it was set in Queen Alexandra's brand-new diamond crown, with which she was crowned at the coronation of her husband, King Edward VII.

She was Grand President of the St John Ambulance Brigade and Colonel-in-Chief of Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.

By the end of the following year, Alexandra's father had ascended the throne of Denmark, her brother George had become King of the Hellenes, her sister Dagmar was engaged to the Tsarevitch of Russia, and Alexandra had given birth to her first child.

Alexandra's first child, Albert Victor, was born two months premature in early 1864.

Queen Alexandra's Christmas gift book, frontispiece shown above, contained royal photographs and was published to raise money for charities.

During the Boer War, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, later renamed Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, was founded under Royal Warrant.

Alexandra's father was Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife ( 1840 – 1912 ), the son of the 5th Earl of Fife ( 1814 – 1879 ) and his wife, the former Lady Agnes Hay.

As Prince Christopher's father was a younger brother of Princess Alexandra's maternal grandmother, the hopeful couple were first cousins once removed.

Alexandra's mother objected bitterly to the potential union since the young man was so poor, to which her daughter replied that she would work as a teacher to help make ends meet.

At the end of season Football League awards, the Stadium of Light was named the Best Away Ground, with other contenders including Crewe Alexandra's Alexandra Stadium and Plymouth Argyle's Home Park.

Prince Carl was the second son of Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, Queen Alexandra's elder brother, and Princess Louise of Sweden.

As well as Ochterlony ’ s Gorkhali battalions, William Fraser and Lieutenant Frederick Young raised the Sirmoor battalion, later to become the 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles ; an additional battalion, the Kumaon battalion was also raised eventually becoming the 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles.

Since Albert was dead, and her uncle, Edward VII of the United Kingdom, the Prince of Wales, had renounced his claim to the ducal throne of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the vacant duchy fell to Alexandra's father, the Duke of Edinburgh.

It was Alexandra's mother who was the domineering presence in their children's life.

Alexandra's grandmother, Queen Victoria, complained that she was too young.

At the death of her father in 1900, Alexandra's husband was appointed regent of the duchy of Saxe-Coburg during the minority of the new Duke.

Alexandra's personal coat of arms was that of the British monarch, with an inescutcheon of the shield of Saxony, all differenced, as a male-line grandchild, with a label argent of five points, the central point bearing a cross gules, the inner pair anchors azure, and the outer pair fleurs-de-lys azure.

The Women's Royal Army Corps ( WRAC ; sometimes pronounced acronymically as, a term unpopular with its members ) was the corps to which all women in the British Army except medical, dental and veterinary officers and chaplains ( who belonged to the same corps as the men ) and nurses ( who belonged to Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps ) belonged from 1949 to 1992.

Salome Alexandra's oldest son by Alexander Jannaeus was Hyrcanus II who fought his younger brother Aristobulus II in the 60's BC over the Jewish High Priesthood.

To celebrate Alexandra's birth, Catherine II gave them the Palace of Gatchina, that would occupy Paul's attention until he was called to the throne.

It was published by her in a book ' Queen Alexandra's Christmas Gift Book '.

Alexandra's mother, Alexandra Androvna Masalina-Mravinskaia, the daughter of a Finnish peasant who had made a fortune selling wood, obtained a divorce from an unhappy arranged first marriage so that she could marry Domontovich, with whom she had fallen in love.

The Prussian conquest of former Danish lands heightened Alexandra's profound dislike of the Germans, a feeling which stayed with her for the rest of her life.

Related to the Royal Family Order is Queen Alexandra's ladies ' order, which is sometimes mistakenly called Queen Alexandra's Royal Family Order.

Sir Arthur Sullivan composed music for her arrival and Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson, wrote an ode in Alexandra's honour:

All of Alexandra's children were apparently born prematurely ; biographer Richard Hough thought Alexandra deliberately misled Queen Victoria as to her probable delivery dates, as she did not want the Queen to be present at their births.

During the birth of her third child in 1867, the added complication of a bout of rheumatic fever threatened Alexandra's life, and left her with a permanent limp.

Even after the birth of her first child, she continued to socialise much as before, which led to some friction between the Queen and the young couple, exacerbated by Alexandra's loathing of Prussians and the Queen's partiality towards them.

An increasing degree of deafness, caused by hereditary otosclerosis, led to Alexandra's social isolation ; she spent more time at home with her children and pets.

Driven by public opinion, but against his own wishes, the King had the banners removed but to Alexandra's dismay he had down not only " those vile Prussian banners " but also those of her Hessian relations who were, in her opinion, " simply soldiers or vassals under that brutal German Emperor's orders ".

As a List of Ladies of the Garter | Lady of the Garter, Alexandra's Royal Standard of the United Kingdom # Consorts of the British monarch | banner of arms hung in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, during her lifetime despite the objections of Garter Principal King of Arms, Sir Albert Woods.

Queen Alexandra's arms upon the ascension of her husband in 1901 were the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom impaled with the arms of her father, King Christian IX of Denmark.

The price Regina ultimately pays for her evil deeds is the loss of her daughter Alexandra's love and respect.

Alexandra's mother urges her to show interest in the tutor, Mr. Agi, to make Albert jealous and stimulate a proposal from him.