First of the Contagious Diseases Act. These acts allowed for the arrest, medical inspection and confinement of any woman suspected of being a prostitute in the port towns. Following huge public outcry ...
In 1863, Queen Victoria’s eldest son, Albert Edward, had married Princess Alexandra of Denmark, and the fashionable young couple – the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra – ushered in ...
Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, and their son, George V, and his wife, Queen Mary. (George V is the maternal great-grandfather of Britain’s current king, Charles III.) “The Edwardian period ...
An official portrait following the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen ... look to be helping the Queen's cousin, Princess Alexandra, the Hon. Lady Ogilvy, to stand for the image. Edward has one ...
Until the outbreak of the First World War, King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra’s reign was remembered ... the Dagmar necklace worn by Alexandra in her Coronation portrait; an early edition of The ...