Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-07
THE QUEEN WIDOW
The Romantic Life Story of
Alexandra of Denmark.
WAS FAMED FOR BEAUTY
The King, as Prince Of Wales, Was
Her Only Suitor.
LONG RULED BRITISH SOCIETY
Royal Couple Were the Oldest Mar
ried Pair Among the Crowned
Heads Of Europe.
LONG RULED BRITISH SOCIETY

Queen Alexandra. the widow OF King
Edward VII. is the first queen dowager
England has had since Queen Charlotte,
who was the queen of William ". She
has been extremely popular will. her
British subjects. particularly since the
death OF Queen Victoria. The story of
her life. courtship and marriage is a TO-
mantle one.
She was born in 1913. Her father.
Prince Christian OF Denmark, was a de-
scendant of the Schleswig- HoIstein counts
of the house CT Glucksborg For a
prince he was in rather poor circum-
stances. and his marriage to the Princess
Louise of Hesse-Nassau brought but a
very slim dover. When Frederick VII
died in 1863 Prince Christian was elected
by parliament King OF Denmark Prin-
cess Alexandra was just twenty Years of
age when her father was proclaimed
king.
Prince Her Only Suitor.
Her first and only sutton was the Prince
Of Wales. He had heard of the beautiful
daughters of the King of Denmark
Alexandra, Dagmar and Thyra. He had
seen pictures of them, and although there
wer; actual negotiations pending with a
view to his engagement to a daughter OF
a German royal house. all such scnemes
were Instantly abandoned. The prince
had at first formed rather prefer, nee
for Dagmar. who later became Czarina of
Russia. 1T was with the object of seeing
her that he went to Denmark at the ac-
C ssion of Christian to the Danish throne.
The carriage and stately British air of
Alexandra. together with her bright, Vi
vacious manner, however. completely
caDtiylt<G him tch
pair became spontaneous
Queen Louise of Denmark was inStrl-
mental in Fastening the maria ge VIII CHI
was exactly to her liking. and on March
married the royal couple. For thirty.
eight years the princess and her husband
stood In the shadow of tn British tn one
Immediately Alexandra became the Prin-
surrendered to her without q murmur.
She ruled the ladies set among En-
rop an royal society as effectuaily as her
husband, as Prince of Wales rul Il the
| ''nenS SEX! She was a frequent visitor
to the country CT her birth. and she new r
lost her hold upon the hearts of the
Danish people. Denmark became her
Playground; England her place of state.
Trained for Housewifery.
Queen Alexandra was brought up with
Ia disciplinary strictness almost military
in its infiexibi ity. These habits she never
got over even after the death of her
mother, who was mainly responsible for
Them, \ writer who knew her we'll long
after her marriage summed up her quail
tiles as follows:
Her expression is one of Unborn nat
ura, refinement The soft yelled me an
choly of her eyes and her passive. al
most statuesque mien. inipart look of
charming sadness such AS one is not
apt to forget. Undoubtedly she envies
the plain people their personal liberty,
and, though she Is happiest when mo-
mentari v estranecd from the conven-
.onanties o court he. she does not
betray her secret satisfaction when stroll
ing along the streets of her native city.
mo one could possibly express less
conceit in manner and less se'f-assertive-
ness in attitude. AS q housekeepor she
could serve as Il model for young mar
ried people. There is nothing in the line
of housekeeping, cooking, sewing, mend
ing, laundering, etc, that she was not
personally trained in before her marriage
by Queen Louise, who insisted that a