Beautiful 0:43, 1:13, 1:32, 1:42; reminds very much, with that upwards sideways glance 1:50, of the last Princess of Wales, Diana, especially during her early years of fending off paparazzi.
Three couples 2:31 of seemingly similar age, would these be the three closely related by marriages and sibling relationships pairing off either as three couples or as two English princes, two Danish princesses and a Russian royal pair of brother and sister?
Wish there were subtitles identifying the individuals 2:34, 3:09.
Quoted from a comment below the original YT video by rutejack:-
"The picture at 3:23 is not of Queen Alexandra, but Princess Alice (Queen Victoria's second daughter) with her husband and children."
Responding to a comment below the original YT video by paixx12:-
"Alexandra's life is what Diana rejected for herself: a life of long-suffering patience in the face of her husband's infidelities. One might say: "please, Alexandra lived in a different era." I say: "Nothing is new under the sun." I can't help but imagine what could have been Diana's had she repeated this beautiful Queen's example: a literal crown; a longer life; two sons who would still have their mother; the deep admiration of people around the world; confirmation of the inner beauty in her---just as the comments here acclaim Alexandra's beauty outside and her beauty within."
There is as much written against Alexandra as against Diana, mostly for identical reasons - women are seen as playthings and when a male with power and wealth prefers an ugly one, the beautiful wife is a target; but in this case there is another reason, of caste. Both Alexandra and Diana were "different" from the family they married into. Alexandra is seen as "not quite", not against her husband's other dalliance but against other women in the position, chiefly her daughter in law who was a close relative of the family. Diana was young and wanted the fairy tale she was rooted into, rather than the dogs and horses and shooting that goes with the caste.
Responding to an insidiously poisonous comment below the original YT video by someone against Diana:-
This propaganda by royal train against Diana with innuendos a la "his type, pretty but immature and non intellectual.", because he was an Oxford professor with a Nobel promise in physics, of course! How fraudulent can they get! A male of thirty one excused for destroying a young girl of nineteen because "he was pressurised to marry a virgin", so she was bumped of after the heir and spare, and now he can force Britain to lump it when his preferred one is forced down their heads via "Diana wasn't saintly" campaign about the guy who gets to be called intellectual because his affection for what amounts to his family property and tales of his predecessors! She gets to be criticised because he wasn't a Gardner, could he survive Rwanda or even East End, anywhere outside being the position of the expected next king since birth? No. As to her preferred lovers being different, she wasn't exactly allowed the freedom to meet anyone in peace and privacy, and few go around the globe to search for real love at that, most are forced to pick from what's around. Nevertheless if rumours are true her picks included some much higher guys - a brilliant surgeon, an esoteric film maker whose film is highly regarded, and the current rumour includes a sympathetic Prince too. His pick, another wallis, but an English one.
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Princess Feodora of Leiningen half sister of Queen Victoria
Not much known to non historians.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p4hCTCwRgkk
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