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Alexandra of Denmark
Queen of the United Kingdom from to
Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see Queen Alexandra (disambiguation), Princess Alexandra of Denmark (disambiguation), and Alexandra of the United Kingdom (disambiguation).
| Alexandra of Denmark | |||
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Portrait by W. & D. Downey, | |||
| Tenure | 22 January – 6 May | ||
| Coronation | 9 August | ||
| Imperial Durbar | 1 January | ||
| Born | Princess Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg ()1 December Yellow Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark | ||
| Died | 20 November () (aged&#;80) Sandringham House, Norfolk, England | ||
| Burial | 28 November | ||
| Spouse | Edward VII &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#; | ||
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| House | Glücksburg | ||
| Father | Christian IX of Denmark | ||
| Mother | Louise of Hesse-Kassel | ||
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HM Queen Alexandra
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Women&#;s History Network
Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India ( ) is a royal figure often disregarded in historical literature. Although studies surrounding Alexandra’s husband, King Edward VII, are plentiful, there is comparatively little written about Alexandra other than a handful of biographies and academic literature surrounding her clothes.[1] Perhaps this is due to Edward’s scandalous, playboy lifestyle and position as monarch. It is interesting that both Alexandra and Edward requested for all their correspondences to be destroyed upon their deaths. As a result, there is a lack of primary sources for historians, yet Edward has received far more scholarly attention than Alexandra. Because of the lack of written sources by Alexandra, analysing her through her appearance is logical as the majority of existing sources are photographs and paintings. It is through her appearance that I will analyse her again, but rather than addressing the clothes she wore, I will analyse her limp due to its visibility and her aim for it to be disguised.
Alexandra’s biographies provide us with a chronology of her life from being born into the modest Danish royal family in , to her death as Queen Mother in Although this is useful information