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    Re: Queen Victoria's Little Crown Archived Message

    Posted by Count75 on May 1, 2012, 12:21 am, in reply to "Re: Queen Victoria's Little Crown"

    I read the book and I remember this passage concerning Queen Alexandra holding on to jewels that were not hers to keep.

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    : Here is an extract from Queen Mary by
    : James Pope-Hennessy, which I feel supports
    : my view.
    :
    : Referring to a letter from Aunt Augusta, the
    : Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, to
    : her niece Queen Mary -
    :
    : “ The jewels of the Queen Consort provided
    : another vexation: ‘Alix retaining the
    : lovely little Crown I do not approve of’,
    : wrote the Grand Duchess. ‘Oh! were I there
    : instead of Minny!! more I dare not say.’ “
    : “Alix” refers to Queen Alexandra, the
    : dowager queen, and “Minny” is her sister the
    : dowager Empress.
    :
    : That suggests to me that Minny was advising
    : her sister along the lines of precedence in
    : the Russian Court, where the dowager Tsarina
    : held precedence over the wife of the ruling
    : Tsar. So possibly Alix was encouraged by her
    : sister to keep the consort's jewels, so much
    : of which had been Queen Victoria's.
    :
    : Here are the letter writers.
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