Re: 1911
Posted by westendwilly on March 3, 2013, 2:40 am, in reply to "
1911"
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Nellie, the caption on that photograph is wrong. Princess Victoria didn't attend in 1911: she was confined to Sandringham House with Queen Alexandra. The lady in the middle is the Princess Royal (Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife). The King's other sister, Queen Maud, didn't attend either, as it is not convention for Heads of State to attend coronations other than their own. The three grandes dames are Princess Helena, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein; Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll; and Princess Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg. In other words, the King's aunts and Queen Victoria's surviving daughters.
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