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#otd 6 April 1871 - Prince Alexander John of Wales was born (d.7 April 1871) . Born prematurely, he was christened privately in the evening after his birth. he died 24 hours later. His parents were the Prince & Princess of Wales (later Edward VII & Queen Alexandra) . . . #royalhistory #PrinceAlexanderJohn #EdwardVII #KingEdwardVII #Princeofwales #Queenalexandra #Alexandraofdenmark #Princessofwales #royalfamily #ukroyals #royalhistory #monarchy #History #historyinpictures #britishmonarchy #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #OnThisDay #d6apr #Royalbaby #Sandringhamhouse #Vintagephotograph #Vintagephoto #Sandringham #Royalty #Britishhistory #britishroyalty #britishroyals #Britishroyalfamily (at Sandringham, Norfolk) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNVt2boM-FM/?igshid=1wskfu11zxgsy

Evening dress for Mrs. Jacobo Greene by Henriette Favre. Worn to the coronation of King Edward VII on august 9, 1902. "Two-piece dress of silk lace, silk net, silk taffeta, metal sequins, glass beads, silk velvet. Bodice (a), pigeon-front with high boned collar, long sleeves, large puff at hem, and center front hook and eye closure. Skirt (b), floor-length, lightly flared, with numerous attached petticoats and sweeping train." @chicagomuseum #historicalgarments #henriettefavre #petticoat #1900s #1900sfashion #costume #vintagecostume #historicalfashion #historicalcostuming #stylehistory  #sewing #costumehistory #historicalsewing #fashionhistory #historiadelamoda #vintage #couture #periodclothing #moda #vintagefashion #20thcenturyfashion #sigloxx #Paris #eveningdress #kingedwardVII #edwardian #eraeduardiana (at Chicago History Museum)

On This Day In History . 9 November 1841 . King Edward VII was born . ◼ Edward Albert was born at 10:48 in the morning on 9 November 1841 in Buckingham Palace. . ◼ He was the eldest son & second child of Queen Victoria & her husband Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. . ◼ He was christened Albert Edward at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, on 25 January 1842. . ◼ He was named Albert after his father & Edward after his maternal grandfather Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn. . ◼ He was known as Bertie to the royal family throughout his life. . . . #onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #theyear1841 #d9Nov #KingEdwardVII #EdwardVII #instahistory #historyfacts #HouseofSaxeCoburgandGotha #History #RoyalFamily #BritishMonarchy #otd #RoyalHistory #theking #Monarch #Monarchy #buckinghampalace #london #Westminster #Britishhistory #britishroyalty #Britishroyals #BritishRoyalFamily (at Buckingham Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHYo8OVDy8k/?igshid=1njx6aq50nel5

On This Day In History . 22 January 1901 . King Edward VII accession . . ◼ When Queen Victoria died on 22 January 1901, Edward became King of the United Kingdom, Emperor of India &, in an innovation, King of the British Dominions. . ◼ He chose to reign under the name Edward VII, instead of Albert Edward the name his mother had intended for him to use declaring that he did not wish to “undervalue the name of Albert” & diminish the status of his father with whom the “name should stand alone”. The numeral VII was occasionally omitted in Scotland, even by the national church, in deference to protests that the previous Edwards were English kings who had “been excluded from Scotland by battle”. . ◼ J. B. Priestley recalled, “I was only a child when he succeeded Victoria in 1901, but I can testify to his extraordinary popularity. He was in fact the most popular king England had known since the earlier 1660s.” . . . #HisMajesty #EdwardVII #KingEdwardVII #HouseofSaxeCoburgandGotha #RoyalFamily #BritishMonarchy #TheBritishMonarchy #GodSaveTheKing #History #Onthisdayinhistory #London #kensingtonpalace #buckinghampalace #OsborneHouse #Balmoral #RoyalCollection #GreatBritain #British #Thisdayinhistory #D22Jan #TheYear1901 #OnThisDay #Royalhistory #instahistory (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7oRxaJg6Ha/?igshid=1u797gb3lct2g

On This Day In History . 9 August 1902 . King Edward VII & Alexandra of Denmark were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. . . ◼ When Queen Victoria died on 22 January 1901, Edward became King of the United Kingdom, Emperor of India &, in an innovation, King of the British Dominions. He chose to reign under the name Edward VII, instead of Albert Edward the name his mother had intended for him to use declaring that he did not wish to "undervalue the name of Albert" & diminish the status of his father with whom the "name should stand alone" . ◼ Edward's coronation had originally been scheduled for 26 June, but two days before on 24 June, he was diagnosed with appendicitis. Appendicitis was generally not treated operatively & carried a high mortality rate, but developments in anaesthesia & antisepsis in the preceding 50 years made life-saving surgery possible. Sir Frederick Treves (famous for caring for John Merrick, 'The Elephant man'), with the support of Lord Lister, performed a then-radical operation of draining a pint of pus from the infected abscess through a small incision (through 4½ inch thickness of belly fat & abdomen wall); this outcome showed thankfully that the cause was not cancer. . ◼ The next day, Edward was sitting up in bed, smoking a cigar. Two weeks later, it was announced that the King was out of danger. Treves was honoured with a baronetcy (which Edward had arranged before the operation) & appendix surgery entered the medical mainstream. . ◼ Edward & Alexandra were crowned together at Westminster Abbey on 9 August 1902, Edward by the 80-year-old Archbishop of Canterbury, Frederick Temple, who died only four months later. Alexandra by the Archbishop of York, William Dalrymple Maclagan. . . . #Onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #Theyear1902 #Coronation #EdwardVII #KingEdwardVII #VintagePhoto #VintagePhotography #Heritage #Britain #UK #WestminsterAbbey #Westminster #Royalhistory #Royalcollection #Historic #onthisday #Kingandqueen #Instahistory #HouseofSaxeCoburgandGotha #AlexandraofDenmark #QueenAlexandra #History #BritishMonarchy #d9aug . Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018 (at Westminster Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/B08wSJxgNuW/?igshid=18hn8r2dd26eq

King Edward VII . Accession . The new king; . ◼ One of the first things he did was donating his parents' house, Osborne on the Isle of Wight, to the state, he continued to live at Sandringham. . ◼ He could afford to be magnanimous; his private secretary, Sir Francis Knollys, claimed that he was the first heir to succeed to the throne in credit. . ◼ Edward's coronation had originally been scheduled for 26 June. However, two days before on 24 June, he was diagnosed with appendicitis. Appendicitis was generally not treated operatively & carried a high mortality rate, but developments in anaesthesia & antisepsis in the preceding 50 years made life-saving surgery possible. Sir Frederick Treves, with the support of Lord Lister, performed a then-radical operation of draining a pint of pus from the infected abscess through a small incision (through 4½ inch thickness of belly fat and abdomen wall); this outcome showed thankfully that the cause was not cancer. The next day, Edward was sitting up in bed, smoking a cigar. Two weeks later, it was announced that the King was out of danger. . ◼ Treves was honoured with a baronetcy (which Edward had arranged before the operation) & appendix surgery entered the medical mainstream. . ◼ Edward was crowned at Westminster Abbey on 9 August 1902 by the 80-year-old Archbishop of Canterbury, Frederick Temple, who died only four months later. . ◼ Edward refurbished the royal palaces, reintroduced the traditional ceremonies, such as the State Opening of Parliament, that his mother had forgone, & founded new honours, such as the Order of Merit, to recognise contributions to the arts & sciences. . ◼ As king, Edward's main interests lay in the fields of foreign affairs & naval & military matters. Fluent in French and German, he made a number of visits abroad, & took annual holidays in Biarritz & Marienbad . Edward reigned as king from  22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. . . . #hisMajesty #EdwardVII #KingEdwardVII #HouseofSaxeCoburgandGotha #RoyalFamily #BritishMonarchy #TheBritishMonarchy #GodSaveTheKing #History #queenAlexandra #Thisdayinhistory #Onthisdayinhistory #D22Jan #TheYear1901 (at Osborne House) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs8t2yOFTkT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15p82cchfkk1j

"The crown is a heavy burden. To bear it, you must have the right person at your side." This quote perfectly describes King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra's marriage because she was exactly who he needed when he acceded to the throne after years of waiting to become King. #kingedwardvii #kingedwardviioftheunitedkingdom #kingedwardviiofuk #alexandraofdenmark #alexandraofsaxecoburgandgotha #queenalexandraoftheunitedkingdom #princessofwales #queenalexandraofdenmark #ukroyalfamily #britishroyalfamily https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj5zQ8gOq7g/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

«𝓑ertie met death with courage. At one moment he said, ‘I am feeling better and intend to fight this, and I shall be about again in a day.’ He refused to go to bed that night, but sat up in a chair, fighting for breath and unable to speak. In the morning he was wrose, but he insisted on dressing. He rejected the informal clothes laid out for him by his valet, and asked for grey trousers. He was angry when the doctors forbade him from having a bath. He tried to do business with Davinson and Knollys but his voice was faint and indistinct. He smoked half a cigar and had a violent coughing fit. Outside Buckingham Palace, a crowd gathered waiting for news. Margot Asquith was ne of the first to go to the palace to sign her name, ’It is like a dream and all London is standing still with anxiety’, she wrote. At one p.m., Bertie walked to his bedroom window to play with his canaries, and fainted. Nox the oxygen was given almost continuously and so were the strychnine injections, but to less and less effect; he gradually lost consciousness during the afternoon, slumping forward in his chair. The last authentically recorded words that Bertie spoke were ’I am so glad’, when Georgie told him that his horse Witch of the Air had won the 4.15 at Kempton park. He then suffered an alarming heart attack. Alix watched as her husband drifted into a coma. At eleven, they lifted him out of his chair into bed, quite unconscious. The Prince of Wales called the archbishop into the King’s bedroom at 11.30. Fifteen minutes later, the King was dead. ’I have seldom or never seen a quieter passing of the river,’ wrote the archbishop.»     {Bertie by Jane Ridley} #king #edward #vii #kingedward #kingedwardvii #edwardvii #kinggeorge #georgev https://www.instagram.com/p/CdWTSE5s9hS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=