Maria alexandrovna duchess of edinburgh

In the middle of World War I, Queen Marie of Romania wrote to her first cousin, King George V of Great Britain: “I never imagined that it would be the lot of our generation, we who are childr…

Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna. 1853-1920. The daughter of Tsar Alexander II

Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh with his family, Carl Rudolph Sohn, 1884 - Category:Portraits of Queen Marie of Romania - Wikimedia Commons

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Portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853-1920), after her marriage with prince Alfred, the second son of queen Victoria, duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and duchess of Edinburgh by painter Gustav Richter (1873)

Bust-length photograph of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna. Her head is turned to the left and she is wearing three strings of pearls and a chocker with an elaborate pendant. Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna was the only surviving daughter of Alexander II, Emperor of Russia. She married Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the fourth child of Queen Victoria.

Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Edinburgh with her daughters Alexandra “Sandra” and Beatrice “Bee”, photographed alongside Sandra´s fiancé Ernst of Hohenlohe-Langeburg

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, daughter of Nicholas I, sister of Alexander II, 1857. Empress Maria Alexandrovna, née Princess Marie of Hessen und bei Rhein, wife of Alexander II, 1857. The Dowager Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, née Princess Charlotte of Prussia, wife of Nicholas I, mother of Alexander II, 1856. Vintage photograph of the study of Alexander II in the Winter Palace, the portraits of his wife and mother seen above hang on the wall. Grand Duchess Anna Feodorovna, née Princess…

The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh in the 1870s

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carolathhabsburg: “Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, later Duchess of Edinburgh. Mids 1870s ”

Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna wears a charming first bustle era dress with numerous ruffles and frills in this Bergamasco photo.

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