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Alexandra was born in Schloss Johannisburg in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, the eighth child and fifth daughter of King Ludwig I of Bavaria and of his wife, Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. As a girl, her portrait was painted by Joseph Karl Stieler for the Gallery of Beauties , which her father commissioned at Schloss Nymphenburg .
Alexandra of the United Kingdom (disambiguation), various princesses; Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (1826–1875), youngest daughter of Ludwig I, King of Bavaria; Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (1830–1911), fifth daughter of Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg; Princess Alexandra of Anhalt (1868–1958), youngest child of Frederick I, Duke ...
Unlike her husband and mother-in-law, Alexandra was not castigated by the press. [77] Funds that she helped to collect were used to buy a river launch, called Alexandra, to ferry the wounded during the Sudan campaign, [78] and to fit out a hospital ship, named The Princess of Wales, to bring back wounded from the Boer War. [79]
Alexandra aged 11 by Hay Wrightson. Princess Alexandra was born on 25 December 1936 at 3 Belgrave Square, London. [1] [2] Her parents were Prince George, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary, and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, a daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark and Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia.
In 1863, King Frederik VII of Denmark donated a replica of the cross to Princess Alexandra of Denmark, daughter of the later King Christian IX of Denmark when she married the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII of England. [6] [7] [8] [9]
Therese Charlotte Luise of Saxony-Hildburghausen (8 July 1792 – 26 October 1854) was queen of Bavaria as the wife of King Ludwig I. Oktoberfest was created in honour of their wedding and is still celebrated annually on Theresienwiese in Munich.
Not only was the Princess Royal the first child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, she also gave them their first grandchild (the future Emperor Wilhelm II, 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) and was the grandmother to both the first of their 87 great-grandchildren to be born, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen (12 May 1879 – 26 August 1945 ...
Princess Alexandra with her three sisters. From left to right, Princess Beatrice, Princess Victoria Melita, Princess Alexandra, and Princess Marie. That year, the entire family moved to Coburg and settled in Rosenau [10] Castle the family moved as her father was the heir apparent to the duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.