Seward daily gateway., 1925-11-20
QUEEN ALEXANDRA I! WIDOW LATE KING EDWARD VII DEAD
BORN IN COPENHAGEN IN 1844, WAS GIRL OF RARE CHARM
 AND SIMPLE TASTES


 SANDRINGHAM, Eng, Nov. 20 (P). Queen Alexandra died here yesterday following a heart attack.
 Alexandra, widow of the late King Edward VII of England, upon the death of her husband in 1910, be- came the Queen Mother, a title which had been in disuse since the days of Henrietta Maria, the consort Of Charles I.
 The eldest daughter of King Chris titan TX of Denmark, Alexandra was married to Albert Edward, then Prince of Wales, on March 10, 1863, and for 3S years, during the reign of Queen Victoria, although somewhat in the background was greatly below ed by her adopted people. Born Tn Copenhagen, December l, 1884, she went to England as the bride Of the future king the same year her father was crowned the ruler of Den mark. She was then 19, girl of rare charm and beauty and, by rea- son of the frugahty of her own fam ily, of simple and underextravagant tastes. Upon the death Of Queen Victoria, in 1901, when her husband ascended the throne, Alexandra be- came Queen and reigned with him for nine years.
 Alexandra adopted the titie of the Queen Mother in 1910 when George V. her son, and the Princess Mary were crowned upon the passing of Edward VII For years, as Princess of Wales, her name had been asso- ciated with most of the great pub lie benevolences and charities of England. On June 25, Alexandra Day." each year thousands of pounds were contributed by Britons the world over for hospitals and other similar institutions in holor of their loyal patroness.
 Although more than 75 years old at the time of her death, the Queen Mother never lost interest in her many philanthopies. During the World War she served as head of the Brit ish Red Cross, the Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service, the Royal Indian Nursing Service, the Territorial Force Nursing Service and the Royal Naval Nursing Service. The Alexandra Field Force Fund, of which she was the head, kept British sol diers supplied with comforts and deHoacies turnout the four years struggle. From 1914 to 1918 she had visited every hospital in London including the famous home for blind ed soldiers at St. Dunstan's. She also was interested in infant welfare work When a new nurses home was named in her honor in London she requested that it be not called the Alexandra home but the "Edith Cavell'' home in memory of the martyred British nurse.
 Queen Alexandra was related by blood or marriage to many European royal families. She was sister oi King George of Greece, who was assassinated in 1913 of King Fred erick VIII of Denmark and of the former Dowager Empress Marie Dag. mar of Russia. The Emperor Nicho- las II, of Russia, who with his family was killed by the Bolsheviki, was her nephew, as was also the former Emperor William of Germany and King Haakon VII of Norway. An. other nephew, by marriage, is King Alfonso XIII of Spain, husband o1 the former British Princess Ena o1 Battenberg, the daughter of King Edwards sister Beatrice. Queen AL exandra's younger sister, Dagmar was married to Alexander III of Rus sia three years after. her own be- trotha to the then Prince of Wales
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