Frances Dimond has published a new book about Queen Alexandra, based on material available in the Royal Archives.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1914280059/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1914280059/
https://royalcentral.co.uk/interest...rk-to-hit-the-bookshelves-in-february-170549/
https://royalbooknews.blogspot.com/2021/12/queen-alexandra-by-frances-dimond.html
The book is 734 pages long (including source notes & index). I haven't read it yet, but leaving through it appears to be a detailed account of Alexandra's private and social lives, almost like a social diary. As a result, you get a glimpse of Alexandra's daily life as well as the people who made up her social circle. For example, Chapter 4 (1865-1869) opens with this paragraph:
"After dinner and a 'snap dragon' on 1 January 1865, the Waleses stayed until the 6th at Holkham Hall. Back at Sandringham the Knollys family dined with them, enjoying a Twelfth cake and another snapdragon. Eddy had a little first birthday table on the 8th. The house party arrived and field sports began. Alexandra drove with Cambridge and Albert Edward showed the guests his new kitchen garden, pheasants and stables. The family left for London on the 19th but stayed with the Queen at Osborne for Princess Louise's confirmation at Whippingham Church on the 21st and some very successful theatricals by the servants later. It was still very cold but they went out every day; heavy snow and a gale on the 27th thwarted the Prince's hunting and shooting but the weather was improving when, on 3 February, they returned to London."
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1914280059/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1914280059/
https://royalcentral.co.uk/interest...rk-to-hit-the-bookshelves-in-february-170549/
https://royalbooknews.blogspot.com/2021/12/queen-alexandra-by-frances-dimond.html
The book is 734 pages long (including source notes & index). I haven't read it yet, but leaving through it appears to be a detailed account of Alexandra's private and social lives, almost like a social diary. As a result, you get a glimpse of Alexandra's daily life as well as the people who made up her social circle. For example, Chapter 4 (1865-1869) opens with this paragraph:
"After dinner and a 'snap dragon' on 1 January 1865, the Waleses stayed until the 6th at Holkham Hall. Back at Sandringham the Knollys family dined with them, enjoying a Twelfth cake and another snapdragon. Eddy had a little first birthday table on the 8th. The house party arrived and field sports began. Alexandra drove with Cambridge and Albert Edward showed the guests his new kitchen garden, pheasants and stables. The family left for London on the 19th but stayed with the Queen at Osborne for Princess Louise's confirmation at Whippingham Church on the 21st and some very successful theatricals by the servants later. It was still very cold but they went out every day; heavy snow and a gale on the 27th thwarted the Prince's hunting and shooting but the weather was improving when, on 3 February, they returned to London."