#queen maud

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ca. 1908 Worth evening dress worn by Quen Maud (Nasjonalmuseet - Oslo, Norway). From tumblr.com/gentlyepigrams/732927709497442304/just-a-casual-scruffy-look-for-queen-maud-of? 1126X2048.

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“Queen Maud of Norway had great fashion sense.” - Submitted by Anonymous

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Queen Maud of Norway, Jay's evening dress, machine-woven silk fabric, silk tulle and metal lace, hand-embroidered with metal and plastic sequins, plastic straws, artificial diamonds and pearls, machine- and hand-stitched, early 1920s.

Queen Maud of Norway was renowned for her stylish dress. Daughter of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, she was born a princess and became Queen of Norway in 1905. She had exemplary taste and a strong interest in fashion, and her royal lifestyle required appropriate dress for every occasion. Her wardrobe includes a range of stunning creations dating from her wedding trousseau of 1896 to the latest House of Worth designs purchased just months before her death in 1938.

Nasjonalmuseet

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Princess Maud of Wales - later Queen Maud of Norway - early 1890s.

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EXTREMELY RARE PHOTO

(L->R) Princess Victoria of Wales, Queen Maud, King Edward VII, Queen Alexandra & King Haakon VII at The National Theatre in Oslo on April 29th, 1908.

Photo Credits: aneacostumes on instagram

[tiaramania]

Hello I love your blog and all the information and work you are doing regarding history of all the Tiaras. Do you know what Tiara Queen Maud is wearing in this pic??

It's most likely her Pearl Necklace Tiara worn on a small coronet frame but it's difficult to know for sure with the quality of the pictures. This one is from a dinner given by the Norwegian prime minister to celebrate Queen Maud's 36th birthday in 1905 right after her and her husband arrived in Norway. She also wore it this way for the Devonshire House Ball (below left) in 1897.

Other than these two instances the only pictures we have of Queen Maud wearing it are as a necklace.

But thanks to the extensive coverage of her wedding gifts we know that it could also be worn on a traditional tiara frame.

It's not known what happened to this tiara and Princess Astrid told her biographer, Trond Norén Isaksen, that she had never seen it before.

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Maude Apatow as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors

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Queen Maud's study at Appleton House is recreated in the "Royal Photographers - snapshots from 1890 to 1990" exhibition using old photographs. Photo: Øivind Möller Bakken, The Royal Collections

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Members of the British Royal Family attend the coronation of King George VI and Queen Consort Elizabeth, 1937.

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Alexandra, Princess of Wales (later Queen of the UK) and Princess Maud of Wales, 1872 🤍

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“I can't imagine how much pain & discomfort king Haakon want through when queen Maud died. They were truly soulmate and you can clearly see that they loved each other so much, And he loved 19 YEARS without her 💔 He was so devastated without her presence in his life...” - Submitted by abigaaal

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MARRIAGE OF KING HAAKON VII AND QUEEN MAUD OF NORWAY🥺🤍💍

Prince Carl, the second son of then-Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark and Princess Louise of Sweden, was born at the Charlottenlund Palace on August 3, 1872 and was christened Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel. Maud, meanwhile, was the youngest daughter of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and Princess Alexandra of Denmark. Both Frederick and Alexandra were children of King Christian IX of Denmark.

At a young age, Carl was not expected to become king because he was a second son. So, he built a career in the military, where he served as a naval officer at the Royal Danish Naval Academy in Copenhagen. Maud, meanwhile, was the liveliest of Edward and Alexandra's three daughters. She fell in love with Prince Francis of Teck, the younger brother of her sister-in-law, the future Queen Mary .Francis and Maud exchanged several letters, however, as time passed, it became clear that the love was one-sided as Francis had no interest in Maud.🥲💔

As cousins, Maud and Carl often met, especially during family gatherings. Rumours eventually circulated within the family that the two might get married. Carl proposed during a reunion at Fredensborg Castle and Maud accepted. Their engagement was announced on October 29, 1895. Princess Alexandra was initially hesitant of the engagement because Maud was 3 years older than Carl, She only relented when she realized that Carl would prove to be the right husband for her sea-loving daughter.🌊🤍

The engagement delighted Queen Victoria (Maud's grandmother). According to Queen Victoria's Maid of Honour, news of their engagement “…caused much excitement at Balmoral…and has been the cause of much telegraphing…The Queen is delighted and healths were drunk at dinner.” 

The wedding was set on July 22, 1896. The wedding was almost delayed after Prince Henry of Battenberg's untimely death, but it was finally decided that the wedding should go on as scheduled and that Princess Beatrice (Maud's aunt and Prince Henry's wife) and her children would not attend. European royals converged in London for this wedding. Members of both the British and Danish royal families were present, as well as their Greek, German, Russian, and Swedish relatives. The bride wore a simple dress fashioned by Miss Rosalie Whyte of the Royal Female School of Art. It had a long train and was made of pure white English satin which was woven in Spitalfields, a section of London known for its weaving. She wore the Princess of Wales' wedding veil and instead of a tiara, she adored her hair with flowers.

Queen Victoria recorded in her Journal: ‘After the Benediction, Maud came forward to her parents & then to me & I kissed both her & the Bridegroom’.

the famous royal painter LAURITS REGNER TUXEN painted the wedding using the photos taken at the wedding! Queen Victoria gave the painting as a present to Maud's parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales.🥺❤️‍🩹

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GIRLBOSS ROUND ONE: NOW, WHEN YOU SAY "QUEEN"...

Select which one you think is GIRLBOSSIER, i.e., which one is the better girlboss

Propaganda

Banica Conchita:

girl duke, cannibal, demon of gluttony, ate her employees, master of the graveyard, her boyfriend and employees still work for her after she ate them

Queen Maud:

Started a giant war because her cousin took the throne her father wanted to have. They called that time the Anarchy. It ended when she got the cousin to agree that her son should be his successor

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King Christian X (Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm; 1870 – 1947); King of Denmark from 1912 to his death in 1947

I want to place this remarkable individual within the context of the many royal families we discuss in this blog. He had quite an eventful and successful reign, including transitioning his country into a constitutional monarchy, but this post is just about (some) of his relatives.

He was a grandson of Christian IX and the son of the future Frederick VIII. His brother was the future Hakoon VII of Norway. His paternal aunts were Dagmar (Empress Maria Feodorovna) and Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom. King George V, Queen Maud, and Tsar Nicholas II were his first cousins. Christian X's mother was Lovisa of Sweden.

He was raised strictly in a palace part of the Amelienborg Palace complex. He received a military education and studied at the Officers Academy.

Christian initially loved Princess Marguerite of Orleans, but his feelings were not returned, so he married Princess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg Schwerin. Alexandrine's maternal line was Romanov...her mother, Anastasia, was the daughter of Nicholas I's younger son, Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaievich. They had two sons: Prince Frederick (1899–1972), later King Frederick IX of Denmark and Prince Knud (1900–1976)

In case you are wondering, he was 6 feet 7 inches tall.

What a dynasty Christian IX and Queen Louise gave to the world!