When Alexandra's father inherited the throne of Denmark in November 1863, the German Confederation took the opportunity to invade and annex Schleswig-Holstein.

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.

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.

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

Although they escaped unharmed, Alexandra's father fell ill with pleurisy, probably contracted as a result of the shipwreck.

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.

During Alexandra's formative years, her father, occupied with his career in the Navy and later as a ruler in Coburg, paid little attention to his family.

Alexandra's father objected to the status of his future son-in-law.

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 mother, Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife, was a daughter of Alexandra of Denmark, an older sister of George I of Greece, his father.

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.

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 effect on fashion was so profound that society ladies even copied her limping gait, after her serious illness in 1867 left her with a stiff leg.

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.

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.

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 '.

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.

Since Princess Alexandra's only son, Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, had predeceased her, the dukedom passed to her nephew, Lord Carnegie, the son of Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk, and his wife, Princess Maud of Fife ( née Lady Maud Duff ).

The Queen is Princess Alexandra's paternal first cousin ; The Duke of Edinburgh is Princess Alexandra's maternal first cousin once removed.

Elena and Alexandra's mother were both descended from Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg.

In 1874, fresh scandal erupted when it was discovered that Alexandra and Konstantin's eldest son, Grand Duke Nikolay Konstantinovich, who had lived a dissipated life and had revolutionary ideas, had stolen three valuable diamonds from an icon in Alexandra's private bedroom, aided by his mistress, an American courtesan.

At the end of 1895, she arranged Alexandra's engagement to Prince Ernst, of Hohenlohe-Langenburg ( 13 September 1863 – 11 December 1950 ).

* Commanding Officer 2nd Battalion 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles-( 1939 – 1940 )

Friedrichsdorf was given its first civic coat of arms in 1821 in remembrance of Russian Princess Alexandra's – and her eight guests ' – visit to Count Friedrich in Bad Homburg: In azure a ring of nine roses argent ( i. e. a blue shield with a ring of nine silver roses ).

In the First World War ( 1914 – 1918 ) men of the Regiment saw active service in the Queen Alexandra's 2nd ( Wellington West Coast ) Mounted Rifles squadron of the Wellington Mounted Rifle Regiment, New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade.

During the Second World War ( 1939 – 1945 ) many volunteers from Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles served overseas in various units, particularly in the 2nd New Zealand Divisional Cavalry Regiment.

Christer Lindarw and Ulla Jones in Leader of the Pack – this and the next two photos are from Alexandra's, Stockholm, in January 1976.

* – Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles

The other remains, with unrelated DNA, correspond to the family's doctor ( Yevgeny Botkin ), their valet ( Alexei Trupp ), their cook ( Ivan Kharitonov ) and Alexandra's maid ( Anna Demidova ).

Other examples of RD Burman songs inspired by foreign numbers include Aao twist karein from Bhoot Bangla ( Chubby Checker's " Let's Twist "), Tumse milke ( Leo Sayer's When I Need You ), and Zindagi milke bitaayenge ( Paul Anka's The Longest Day ) and Jahan teri yeh nazar hai ( Persian artist Zia Atabi's Heleh maali ) and Dilbar mere ( Alexandra's Zigeunerjunge ).

Gary Sweet ( born 22 May 1957 in Melbourne ) is an Australian film and television actor known for his roles in Alexandra's Project ( 2003 ), Police Rescue, Cody, Big Sky, The Battlers, Bodyline and Stingers.

DJ Sammy started his music career in 1984 in the dance clubs of Mallorca, playing gigs at clubs such as Alexandra's ( rebuilt around 1998 / 99 and renamed to Boomerang's ), Banana's and Zorba's.

* 1962-amalgamated with The Wellington East Coast Regiment ( City of Hastings ' Own ), to form Waikato / Wellington East Coast Sqn, Queen Alexandra's Regiment.

With the exception of Queen Alexandra's Birdwing ( O. alexandrae ), all birdwings are listed in Appendix II of CITES, and accordingly their trade is restricted in countries that have signed the CITES convention.

All women in the army joined the ATS except for nurses, who joined Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service ( QAIMS ), and medical and dental officers, who were commissioned directly into the Army and held army ranks.

Other names for the species include: Queen Alexandra Parrot ( or Parakeet ), Alexandra's Parakeet, Princess of Wales Parakeet, Rose-throated Parakeet, and Spinifex Parrot.