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On This Day In History . 20 November 1925 . Queen Alexandra died . . ◼ Alexandra retained a youthful appearance into her senior years, but during the war (First World War) her age caught up with her. . ◼ She took to wearing elaborate veils & heavy makeup, which was described by gossips as having her face "enamelled". . ◼ She made no more trips abroad, & suffered increasing ill health. In 1920, a blood vessel in her eye burst, leaving her with temporary partial blindness. Towards the end of her life, her memory & speech became impaired. . ◼ She died on 20 November 1925 at Sandringham after suffering a heart attack, & was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband king Edward VII in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. . . Portrait = Queen Alexandra, 1920 (aged 75) . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1925 #QueenAlexandra #AlexandraofDenmark #QueenConsort #HouseofSaxeCoburgandGotha #History #RoyalFamily #BritishMonarchy #Schleswig #Holstein #Sonderburg #Glücksburg #Portrait #D20Nov #Royalhistory #thequeen #Instahistory #Vintage #Vintagephotography #Buckinghampalace #onthisday #HerMajesty #instaroyals #Royalty #Monarchy (at Buckingham Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5GpsulAW_a/?igshid=zkrjtn2wyy7e

Queen Alexandra . . Born Alexandra of Denmark, ( 1 December 1844), she was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India as the wife of King-Emperor Edward VII. . ◼ Her family had been relatively obscure until 1852, when her father, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was chosen with the consent of the great powers to succeed his distant cousin, Frederick VII, to the Danish throne. . ◼ At the age of sixteen, she was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the heir apparent of Queen Victoria. They married eighteen months later in 1863, the same year her father became king of Denmark as Christian IX & her brother was appointed to the vacant Greek throne as George I. . ◼ She was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, & became generally popular; her style of dress & bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. Largely excluded from wielding any political power, she unsuccessfully attempted to sway the opinion of British ministers & her husband's family to favour Greek & Danish interests. Her public duties were restricted to uncontroversial involvement in charitable work. . ◼ On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, Albert Edward became king-emperor as Edward VII, with Alexandra as queen-empress. She held the status until Edward's death in 1910. She greatly distrusted her nephew, German Emperor Wilhelm II, & supported her son during World War I, in which Britain & its allies fought Germany. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #Thisdayinhistory #theyear1925 #Alexandraofdenmark #D20nov #QueenAlexandra #RoyalFamily #history #BritishMonarchy #historyfacts #Monarchy #Instahistory #Thebritishmonarchy (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqaSy-7FZ1R/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vt6d58wq763x

On This Day In History . 20 November 1925 . Queen Alexandra died . . ◼ Alexandra retained a youthful appearance into her senior years, but during the war (First World War) her age caught up with her. . ◼ She took to wearing elaborate veils & heavy makeup, which was described by gossips as having her face "enamelled". . ◼ She made no more trips abroad, & suffered increasing ill health. In 1920, a blood vessel in her eye burst, leaving her with temporary partial blindness. Towards the end of her life, her memory & speech became impaired. . ◼ She died on 20 November 1925 at Sandringham after suffering a heart attack, & was buried in an elaborate tomb next to her husband king Edward VII in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1925 #QueenAlexandra #AlexandraofDenmark #QueenConsort #History #RoyalFamily #BritishMonarchy #D20Nov #HistoryFacts #Monarchy #Thebritishmonarchy (at Sandringham, Norfolk) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqaSY6mFXHo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=g6qafrf20fum