Queen Victoria with Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Seated on the left is Tsarina Alexandra holding her baby daughter Grand Duchess Olga. (Balmoral Castle, 1896).
Tsarina Alexandra (Princess Alix of Hesse) is Queen Victoria’s granddaughter.
Tsarina Alexandra (Princess Alix of Hesse) is Queen Victoria’s granddaughter.
By the way...
It’s the uniform of the colonel-in-chief of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.
Tsar Nicholas II was appointed the first colonel-in-chief of the 2nd Dragoons in 1894.
Alexandra was born on 6 June 1872 at the New Palace in Darmstadt as Princess Alix Viktoria Helene Luise Beatrix of Hesse and by Rhine, a Grand Duchy that was then part of the German Empire.
She was the sixth child and fourth daughter among the seven children of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and his first wife Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, the second daughter of Queen Victoria and Albert, the Prince Consort.
In November 1878, diphtheria swept through the Grand Ducal House of Hesse; Alix, her three sisters, her brother Ernst ("Ernie"), and their father fell ill. Elisabeth ("Ella"), Alix's older sister, had been sent to visit her paternal grandmother, and thus escaped the outbreak.
Alix's mother Alice tended to the children herself, rather than abandon them to doctors. Alice herself soon fell ill and died on the 17th anniversary of her father's death, 14 December 1878, when Alix was only six years old.
Alix, Victoria, Irene, and Ernst survived the epidemic, but Marie did not. After her mother and her sister's death, Alix, from a happy and cheerful girl grew into one who was reserved and withdrawn.
Princess Alix of Hesse, lower right, with her grandmother Queen Victoria and her four older siblings in mourning after the deaths of her mother and sister. January 1879.
Alix and her surviving siblings grew close to their British cousins, spending holidays with Queen Victoria.
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