Word: alexandra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lusty fishmongers cheered, recalling that the newborn Duchess (TIME, May 3) had her name officially registered as "Elizabeth Alexandra Mary" last week. Despatches announced that at her subsequent state christening she would wear the iace christening robe donned in infancy by George V and Edward of Wales...
...British peerage in descending order of rank: Dukes, Marquises, Earls, Viscounts, Barons. There are 28 British dukedoms of which only four have been created since Wellington was made a Duke in 1814. The last dukedom created was that of Fife, in 1900, now held by H. H. Alexandra Victoria Alberta Edwina Louise Duff, wife of H. R. H. Prince Arthur of Connaught, uncle of George...
...Queen Alexandra: "She met her marital problems with a cleverness that evoked the unwilling admiration of Europe. Repeatedly, although by nature she was one of the most exclusive of persons, she invited to Sandringham the very women with whose names his was associated. And she was at some pains to show these ladies manifestations of her good will in other and equally significant ways...
...Repeatedly Alexandra invited Mrs. Keppel to Sandringham...
...night of the fifth of May, 1910, Edward died. Mrs. Keppel had been summoned by Alexandra. The Queen took her hand and led her to the deathbed. There, together, they knelt and prayed...