#de keyser

“Queen Anna is a very respectable woman, full of old court traditions and devotion to etiquette, and has not yet sent all decency to hell, as is customary in our time. Our young grand dukes and duchesses, who roll with laughter and make faces behind their aunt's back, would do better if they followed her example."

Raoul De Keyser 

Portraits of Maria Hendrika in formal dress:

1853 Maria-Henrietha by Nicaise de Keyser (Antwerpen Städhuis - Antwerpen, Vlaams Gewest/Région flamande, Belgium). From Wikimedia 1591X2772 @240 1.3Mj.

1870 Reine Marie Henriette by Angeli (Royal Collection of Belgium - Bruxelles/Brussel, Belgium). From Wikimedia; doubled size 1236X1550 @72 258kj.

1870s Marie Henriette von Österreich, Königin der Belgier by ? (location ?). From stringfixer.com/fr/Marie_Henriette_of_Austria; increased exposure 40% 1280X1987 @72 309kj.

“Olga, too, with her beauty like fine architecture is a thing one likes to recollect…”

“Grandmother [Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna] was buried in the Peter and Paul Fortress next to my grandfather, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich. On his other side lies Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna, his beloved sister. Grandfather had requested that he be buried beside her.”