In 1922, Fuller's young daughter Alexandra died from complications from polio and spinal meningitis.

Alexandra was a three-masted sailing ship with auxiliary steam power, and despite remaining flagship was already outdated in a navy which was steadily transitioning from sail to steam.

In her article for Atlantic Monthly about Skull and Bones, Alexandra Robbins alleges that the gravestone of Elihu Yale was stolen years ago from its proper setting in Wrexham, and is displayed in a glass case, in a room with purple walls, which belongs to a building called the Tomb of the Skull and Bones at Yale University.

Later works included Nicholas and Alexandra, Papillon, Islands in the Stream and The Boys from Brazil.

Notably, as First Speaker of the House, Jaja Wachuku received Nigeria's Instrument of Independence-also known as Freedom Charter-on October 1, 1960, from Princess Alexandra of Kent, The Queen's representative at the Nigerian independence ceremonies.

Alexandra was a carrier of the gene for hemophilia, which she inherited from her maternal grandmother, Queen Victoria.

Having fled Russia from the Crimea in 1919, she spent her remaining years in exile firstly in the United Kingdom with her sister, Queen Alexandra and later in her native Denmark mainly at Villa Hvidore.

On 2 November 1936 the BBC began transmitting the world's first public regular high-definition service from the Victorian Alexandra Palace in north London.

On 3 November 1936, from Alexandra Palace located on the high ground of the north London ridge, the BBC began alternating Baird 240-line transmissions with EMI's electronic scanning system which had recently been improved to 405 lines after a merger with Marconi.

Edward's elder sister, acting upon instructions from their mother, had met Princess Alexandra at Strelitz in June ; the young Danish princess made a very favourable impression.

Edward and Alexandra were friendly from the start ; the meeting went well for both sides, and marriage plans advanced.

The family of the Prince of Wales illustrated in 1891 ( based on a photograph from 1889 ): ( left to right ) Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence | Prince Albert Victor, Maud of Wales | Princess Maud, Alexandra of Denmark | Alexandra, Edward, Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife | Princess Louise, George V of the United Kingdom | Prince George and Princess Victoria Alexandra of the United Kingdom | Princess Victoria.

Alexandra returned from visiting her brother, King George I of Greece, in Corfu a week later on 5 May.

See Fuller, Alexandra Letter from Wyoming: Boomtown Blues, The New Yorker p. 35 ( February 5, 2007 ).

A few months later, Alexandra travelled from Denmark to Britain aboard the royal yacht Victoria and Albert II and arrived in Gravesend, Kent, on 7 March 1863.

For eight months over 1875 – 76, the Prince of Wales was absent from Britain on a tour of India, but to her dismay Alexandra was left behind.

Alexandra spent the spring of 1877 in Greece recuperating from a period of ill health and visiting her brother King George of the Hellenes.

Alexandra and her two sons spent the next three years largely parted from each other's company as the boys were sent on a worldwide cruise as part of their naval and general education.

Biographers have asserted that Alexandra was denied access to the King's briefing papers and excluded from some of his foreign tours to prevent her meddling in diplomatic matters.

Her sister the Dowager Empress was rescued from Russia in 1919 by and brought to England, where she lived for some time with Alexandra.

Funds that she helped to collect were used to buy a river launch, called Alexandra, to ferry the wounded during the Sudan campaign, and to fit out a hospital ship, named The Princess of Wales, to bring back wounded from the Boer War.

* " Extending the Legacy " Alexandra Lange article on the preservation of the Glass House, from the November 2006 issue of Metropolis magazine.

Nobel's first love was in Russia with a girl named Alexandra, who rejected his proposal.

* 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

* 1783 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia ( d. 1801 )

The earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek feminine noun a-re-ka-sa-da-ra ( transliterated as Alexandra ), written in Linear B syllabic script.

* 1842 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia ( d. 1849 )

* 1870 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia ( d. 1891 )

As of March 31, 2011, the Board of Directors consisted of Frank Dangeard, Jim Wilson, Tom Virden, Gene Davis, Alexandra Fichelson.

* 1963 – Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.

They had two children together, Alexandra and Samuel.

In September 1896, Victoria welcomed Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and Empress Alexandra to Balmoral.

According to Lycophron's Alexandra ( 808 ) and John Tzetzes ' scholia on the poem ( 795-808 ), however, Circe used magical herbs to bring Odysseus back to life after he had been killed by Telegonus.

In Greek mythology, Cassandra ( Greek, also, also known as Alexandra ) was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy.

The Wedding of Nicholas II and Grand duke | Grand Duchess Alexandra Fyodorovna ( Alix of Hesse ) | Alexandra Feodorovna, by Ilya Repin | Ilya Yefimovich Repin, 1894 ( Russian Museum | Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg | St. Petersburg ).

Suspended during World War II, the BBC service was re-established in June 1946, and had only one transmitter, at Alexandra Palace, which served the London area.

In France, Claude François who re-invented himself as the king of French disco, released " La plus belle chose du monde ", a French version of the Bee Gees hit record, " Massachusetts ", which became a big hit in Canada and Europe and " Alexandrie Alexandra " was posthumously released on the day of his burial and became a worldwide hit.

* 1844 – Alexandra of Denmark, Danish Queen Consort of Edward VII of the United Kingdom ( d. 1925 )

Beatty was instead appointed to HMS Alexandra, flagship in the Mediterranean Squadron commanded by Admiral the Duke of Edinburgh's, Queen Victoria's second son.

In March 1889 Beatty left Alexandra.

Stanley Colville was placed in command of the gunboats attached to the British expeditionary force in Egypt and as Beatty's former commander in Trafalgar and superior in ' Alexandra ' he requested that Beatty join him.

One of the German POWs successfully seduces the beautiful and tough Red Army Captain Alexandra Kasalniskaya ( Eva Bartok ) who prefers him to the sadistic camp commandant, which as Bartov comments also is meant to show that even in defeat, German men were more sexually virile and potent than their Russian counterparts.

Starring in the lead roles were Rebecka Liljeberg, as Agnes, and Alexandra Dahlström, as Elin.