Alexandra of Denmark

Alexandra of Denmark

Alexandra of Denmark (Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia; 1 December 1844 – 20 November 1925) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 22 January 1901 to 6 May 1910 as the wife of King-Emperor Edward VII. Alexandra's family had been relatively obscure until 1852, when her father, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was chosen with the consent of the major European powers to succeed his second cousin Frederick VII as king of Denmark. At the age of sixteen Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the son and heir apparent of Queen Victoria. The couple married eighteen months later in 1863, the year in which her father became king of Denmark as Christian IX and her brother was appointed king of Greece as George I. Alexandra was Princess of Wales from 1863 to 1901, the longest anyone has ever held that title, and became generally popular; her style of dress and bearing were copied by fashion-conscious women. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexandra of Denmark has received more than 5,897,077 page views. Her biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Alexandra of Denmark is the 767th most popular politician (down from 729th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Denmark (up from 26th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Danish Politician.

Alexandra of Denmark is most famous for being the wife of Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Ireland. She was also Queen Consort of the United Kingdom from 1901 to 1910.