Meet George V's Sisters 

Interesting.

Yes - that rings true.

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Yes, I could never understand why they weren't given more to do, after all they were in the direct line.

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In "IN Search of Queen Mary", they are dismissed by more than one who knew them as all very stupid. I still think Toria was very striking when young. Shame her mother got her possessive claws into her.

I totally agree with you.

Thanks! I’ll put that one on my list!

Thanks for watching :)!

I had heard of a Lord Roseberry who was supposed to be interested in Toria. The custom of the time was that one daughter remained unmarried in order to be a companion to the elderly parent. Beatrice was doing the same thing for Queen Victoria.

Alexandra selfishly ask her to stay, preventing her from having her own life.

@@Angel-nu7fm That was the custom of that time. Beatrice did the same thing for Victoria, and one of Helena's daughters did the same thing.

I am not sure that the behaviour of queens Victoria & Alexandra followed a "custom" as if you look back further there were not precedents. I do agree that both queens were being selfish viz a viz keeping adult daughters at home rather than making marriages away. I have read a number of biographies of both Victoria & Edward VII and one on Alexandra. I seem to recall at least one author suggested that Victoria could have married her youngest daughter to an English duke or earl, someone handy, but even that, for a time anyway, was not an idea of her majesty's liking. On Alexandra, I had forgotten she was going deaf from c. age 40: thought she was older than that. I recall the biographer writing that she was quite eccentric in middle and older age. As for her husband - absolutely blinkin' disgusting the way he carried on with other women. Must have had an immense psychological impact on Alexandra. American history is my speciality area and I would say only a handful of presidents have not had at least one affair while in office. Back to the UK - Victorian and Edwardian society was certainly a man's world. An opinion. Alexandra (as was her sister Tsarina of Russia once married) was a very attractive woman. One of the earliest queens we have photographs for. She should have grabbed some duke of something or somewhere and had a good time in her own right!

Thanks!

R.V. Chua : You are correct. Prince Henry's family was Battenburg before 1917 and after 1917 it was Mountbatten.

You could try "Edward VII's Children" by John Van Der Kiste.

Did you actually use the the spinsterish?

What on earth does that comment mean?@@Angel-nu7fm

Alexandra wanted one of the daughters to stay with her (like Beatrice did with Victoria).

I thought the same!

Yes! So many female descendants of King Christian IX and Louise of Hesse-Kassel look exactly the same. I really cant distinguish between Dagmar,Alexandra or Alexandras daughters,they all look the same

So interesting and informative.

He also looks just like his cousin,Tsar Nicholas II They look like twins

But George V was handsome