Alexandra Of Denmark Gallery

Queen Alexandra as a Christmas Fairy, First World War, 1915, (c1920). Creator: Unknown

Queen Alexandra as a Christmas Fairy, First World War, 1915, (c1920). Her Majesty serving soldiers at a free buffet in London...The free buffets at the great railway stations, for soldiers home on leave from the front, proved a boon throughout the war. Queen Alexandra, who was keenly interested in them, paid a surprise visit to Lady Limerick's buffet at London Bridge during the Christmas holidays of 1915, and took her turn among the voluntary workers for an hour and a half'. Drawn by W. Hatherell R.I. From "The Great World War: A History", Volume VI, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]

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Their Majesties The King and Queen Inspecting...the Nimrod at Cowes, 1907, (1909)

Their Majesties The King and Queen Inspecting The Equipment on the Nimrod at Cowes, 1907, (1909). King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra inspecting Shackleton's ship at the port of Cowes on the Isle of Wight. Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic. During the second expedition, 1907-1909, he and three companions established a new record, Farthest South latitude at 88°S, only 97 geographical miles (112 statute miles, or 180 km) from the South Pole, the largest advance to the pole in exploration history. Members of his team also climbed Mount Erebus, the most active volcano in the Antarctic. Shackleton was knighted by King Edward VII for these achievements. He died during his third and last oceanographic and sub-antarctic expedition, aged 47. Illustration from The Heart of the Antarctic, Vol. I, by E. H. Shackleton, C.V.O. [William Heinemann, London, 1909]

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The Princess of Wales launching the new ironclad ship Alexandra, 1875

The Princess of Wales launching the new ironclad ship Alexandra, 1875. Launch of HMS Alexandra, a central battery ironclad of the Victorian Royal Navy at Chatham Dockyard, , the first British ironclad to be launched by a member of the royal family. It had been intended to call the ship HMS Superb, but the name was changed at her launching, which was undertaken by the Princess of Wales, later Queen Alexandra. From the Illustrated London News, 17 April 1875

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