Distressed at their threats, and following the advice of Sir William Knollys and the Duchess of Teck, Alexandra informed the Queen, who then wrote to the Prince of Wales.

For example, in 1890 Alexandra wrote a memorandum, distributed to senior British ministers and military personnel, warning against the planned exchange of the British North Sea island of Heligoland for the German colony of Zanzibar, pointing out Heligoland's strategic significance and that it could be used either by Germany to launch an attack, or by Britain to contain German aggression.

" Our Friend is so contented with our girlies, says they have gone through heavy ' courses ' for their age and their souls have much developed ," Alexandra wrote to Nicholas on 6 December 1916.

" I would like so much to go the review of the second division as I am also the second daughter and Olga was at the first so now it is my turn ," she wrote to Alexandra on 20 April 1911.

" My little Malama came for an hour yesterday evening ," wrote Alexandra to Nicholas on 17 March 1916.

" Our Friend is so contented with our girlies, says they have gone through heavy ' courses ' for their age and their souls have much developed ," Alexandra wrote to Nicholas on December 6, 1916.

Alexandra A. Seno of Asiaweek wrote:

Alexandra settled in Digne ( Provence ), and during the next nine years she wrote books.

" The Washington Posts Alexandra Petri wrote that the books were " timeless, timely, and kind-hearted, like all the best literature ," and acknowledged the Posts 1989 piece by saying, " This is one of the times the kids have the right idea and Charles Krauthammer does not.

The Queen never forgave Alice for accusations of possessiveness, and wrote of the Waleses shortly afterwards: " Bertie is most affectionate and kind but Alix name for Alexandra is by no means what she ought to be.

Tzetzes also wrote commentaries on a number of Greek authors, the most important of which is that on the Cassandra or Alexandra of Lycophron ( ed.

Tchaikovsky tells us as much in a letter he wrote his sister Alexandra Davydova during his honeymoon:

More than 50 years later, in 1999, the French writer Alexandra Lapierre became fascinated by Artemisia and wrote a novel about her, derived from scrupulous study of the painter and the historical context of her work.

He began to spread gossip about Alexandra and her family, in which her mother Princess Louise " had had illegitimate children and Alexandra had had flirtations with young officers "; he also wrote to Louise herself, warning that Bertie would be an unfortunate choice for a husband.

He wrote a " draft declaration " which he shared with Alexandra Kollontai as early as July 1915.

Von Hoffman also wrote a libretto for Deborah Drattell's Nicholas and Alexandra for the Los Angeles Opera which was performed in the 2003 / 04 season under the direction of Plácido Domingo.

Tilly was played by three people: Claire Carre, who wrote along with Robin Stevens, the episode " Melon Chase ", Veronique Deroulede and Alexandra Hogg.

Alexandra ’ s grandson, Christopher of Greece, wrote in his memoirs that Konstantin became so frustrated with being under Alexandra ’ s control that he one day grabbed her by the hair and beat her with his stick.

On July 17, 2005, New York Times columnist Alexandra Jacobs wrote an unflattering review of the new edition of OBOS, stating that she disliked the pink cover, as well as the sharper editing and new policies.

Benedict wrote a march for the wedding of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and Alexandra of Denmark in 1863.

Alexandra Fuller wrote of her childhood in the 1970s on a farm in Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, which won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize in 2002, was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002 and a finalist for The Guardian's First Book Award.

He wrote the song " I'm You " for Leona Lewis's debut album Spirit, and is currently writing songs for her next album and for the debut album of fellow X Factor winner Alexandra Burke.

* Alexandra Feodorovna ( Alix of Hesse ) ( 1872 – 1918 ), wife of Nicholas II of Russia

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

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 ).

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

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin ( ) ( – ) was a Russian Orthodox Christian and mystic who is perceived as having influenced the latter days of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their only son, Alexei.

" Maria Feodorovna was the younger sister of Alexandra, Queen Consort of King Edward VII and mother of George V of the United Kingdom, which helps to explain the striking resemblance between their sons Nicholas II and George V. Her older brother was King George I of Greece.

Nevertheless, she did not get along well with her daughter-in-law, Alexandra Feodorovna ( the former Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt ), holding her responsible for many of the woes that beset her son Nicholas and the Russian Empire in general.

She was portrayed by Irene Worth in the 1971 film Nicholas and Alexandra,

Wedding of Tsar Nicholas II | Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna ( Alix of Hesse ) | Alexandra Feodorovna.

Nicholas and Alexandra also had four daughters ( Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia ).

** Shooting of the Romanov family: By order of the Bolshevik Party and carried out by the Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, their children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei, and retainers are executed at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.

* June 22 – Two skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg are identified as Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra.

* November 1 – Alexandra Feodorovna ( Charlotte of Prussia ), the Empress Consort of Russian Emperor Nicholas I ( b. 1798 )

Some examples of these de facto rulers are Empress Dowager Cixi of China ( for son Tongzhi and nephew Guangxu Emperors ), Prince Alexander Menshikov ( for his former lover Empress Catherine I of Russia ), Grigori Rasputin through Tsarina Alexandra ( for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia ), Cardinal Richelieu of France ( for Louis XIII ), and Queen Marie Caroline of Naples and Sicily ( for her husband King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies ).

On 13 July 1817, Nicholas married Charlotte of Prussia ( 1798 – 1860 ), who thereafter went by the name Alexandra Feodorovna.

The German Emperor Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse, Duke Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Duke Ernst August of Brunswick were Edward's nephews ; Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain, Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden, Crown Princess Marie of Romania, Crown Princess Sophia of Greece, Empress Alexandra of Russia, Grand Duchess Alexandra of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Duchess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen were his nieces ; Haakon VII of Norway was both his nephew by marriage and his son-in-law ; George I of Greece and Frederick VIII of Denmark were his brothers-in-law ; Albert I of Belgium, Charles I and Manuel II of Portugal, and Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria were his second cousins.

Soon after the Russian Revolution, on July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, and their children Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Tsarevich Alexei were murdered by the Bolsheviks at the Ipatiev House in this city.

) 1897 – 17 July 1918 ), ( after 1900, Tatiana's birthday was celebrated on 11 June ) was the second daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and of Tsarina Alexandra.

* Alexandra Brooks DiMera, aka Lexie Carver, character on the American soap opera Days of our Lives

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 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.

Rasputin had a considerable personal and political influence on Alexandra, and the Tsar and Tsarina considered him a man of God and a religious prophet.

He then spent six months on HMS Alexandra, flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet, as signal sub-lieutenant.

Marxists such as Clara Zetkin and Alexandra Kollontai however, though supporters of radical social equality for women, opposed feminism on the grounds that it was a bourgeois ideology.

His eighth marriage to Contessa Erica Alexandra Del Portenza ( aka the " Contessa ") is based on mutual greed ; the Contessa buys controlling interest in LexCorp after Luthor is indicted, compelling him to marry her in order to regain control of his company.

During her upbringing, Dagmar, together with her sister Alexandra, was given swimming lessons by the Swedish pioneer of swimming for women, Nancy Edberg ; she would later welcome Edberg to Russia, where she came on royal scholarship to hold swimming lessons for women.

Wevill also killed her child, Alexandra Tatiana Elise ( nicknamed Shura ), the four-year-old daughter of Hughes, born on 3 March 1965.

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 and Alexandra married at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on 10 March 1863.

Edward and Alexandra of Denmark | Alexandra on their wedding day, 1863

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.

Edward VII and Alexandra were crowned at Westminster Abbey on 9 August 1902 by the 80-year-old Archbishop of Canterbury, Frederick Temple, who died only four months later.

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

George was born on 3 June 1865, in Marlborough House, London, as the second son of the Prince of Wales and Princess of Wales, Albert Edward and Alexandra.

Although the two were on friendly terms, Alexandra could be stubborn ; she demanded precedence over Mary at the funeral of Edward VII, was slow in leaving Buckingham Palace, and kept some of the royal jewels that should have been passed to the new queen.

* In 2007, Alexandra Fuller reported on the rising crime rate, influx of roughnecks and methamphetamine, the decline in ranching, and environmental damage associated with recent oil boom.

On 24 September 1861, Crown Princess Victoria introduced her brother Albert Edward to Alexandra at Speyer, but it was not until almost a year later on 9 September 1862 ( after his affair with Nellie Clifden and the death of his father ) that Albert Edward proposed to Alexandra at the Royal Castle of Laeken, the home of his great-uncle, King Leopold I of Belgium.

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.

Alexandra was devoted to her children: " She was in her glory when she could run up to the nursery, put on a flannel apron, wash the children herself and see them asleep in their little beds.