Word: alexandra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout the week an unpretentious oaken coffin lay in the small chancel of Sandringham Church, where the Dowager Queen Alexandra had so often worshiped before her death (TIME, Nov. 30). As the days passed, thousands of mourners arrived in motor cars and on foot, giving silent testimony to how completely the onetime Princess Alexandra of Denmark had won the hearts of her English subjects. Meanwhile a light and powdery snow sifted down upon the Sandringham estates, famed country retreat of Edward VII and Alexandra. At length the same gun carriage which had served King Edward on his last earthly journey...
...length the earthly remains of Alexandra were placed beside those of King Edward, in the crypt of the Chapel. There the imperial pair will await the completion of a great sarcophagus now being built for them...
Seldom has Edward of Wales been placed in a more difficult position. Although indisputably Alexandra's favorite grandson, he was expected, while she lay dying, to dine as the Lord Mayor's guest at a great Guildhall banquet, to which over 800 of his father's most distinguished subjects had been invited for the sole purpose of hearing the Prince discourse officially upon his Empire Tour (TIME, Oct. 23 et ante...
...Queen Alexandra, although usually described as "the eldest daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark," was not, curiously enough, born of the blood royal. At the time of her birth, in 1844, her father was only "Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gluücksburg," a younger son of a somewhat minor German house. Not until the death of King Frederick VII of Denmark, when the reigning house of Denmark became extinct, was Christian elected king of Denmark by popular vote, in 1863. Thus it chanced that Alexandra and her sister Dagmar spent their youth as impecunious though radiantly beautiful princesses...
Died. The Dowager Queen Alexandra, consort of Edward VII, at Sandringham (see p. 11, COMMONWEALTH...