Showing posts with label queen alexandra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label queen alexandra. Show all posts

07 March 2013

Queen Alexandra of Great Britain

Queen Alexandra's sister, the Empress Marie Fedorovna of Russia, with her husband, Emperor Alexander III.

Empress Marie Fedorovna wearing a large diamond kokoshnik tiara and rows of diamond collars around her neck.

Queen Alexandra and Empress Marie often dressed the same to amuse themselves when appearing in society.

Queen Alexandra wearing a diamond kokoshnik tiara and rows of diamond and pearl necklaces. She had a scar on her neck from a childhood illness, which was covered in the daytime by high-collared dresses, and disguised in the evening with a large amount of jewels.

Alexandra wearing the small diamond crown of Queen Victoria. 

Alexandra and Dagmar (Empress Marie's name when she was a Danish Princess), dressed identically.

Queen Alexandra wears three diamond bow brooches down the front of her dress, with strands of diamonds hanging from each one.

Alexandra loved animals, and is pictured here with her cockatiel, Cocky, who lived to be 80 years old.

A beautiful painting of Queen Alexandra.

Alexandra with a pet kitten. She was so attached to her pets, that when they died, she had headstones made for them and proper graves at Marlborough House.

30 March 2012

Queen Elizabeth II and other British Royals

These are stamps and postcards from my own private collection of Royalty memorabilia.  
Queen Elizabeth II stamps from Antigua and Barbuda.


A Numismatic Philatelic cover commemorating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, featuring a set of stamps and a five pounds sterling coin.

A Canadian stamp with a young Princess Elizabeth.

A seal commemorating the 1937 coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. This seal pictures King George V.

The wedding stamp issue of Princess Anne and her then husband, Mark Philips. On the right, a Canadian stamp, picturing the queen in her diamond kokoshnik tiara.

The young Princess Elizabeth dressed a man and Princess Margaret Rose as a maiden in a theatre performance.

Queen Alexandra of Great Britain, daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark.

Queen Alexandra and two of her daughter, Princess Victoria and Queen Maud of Norway, in a horse drawn carriage. 

A young Queen Elizabeth in the George IV diadem, on her way to opening parliament.

A Canadian first day cover featuring a stamp and image of the Queen.

A set of 4 postcards, off of 4 stamp designs commemorating her Silver Jubilee.