Picture of the Day

Portrait of Queen Alexandra of Great Britain by Franz Xaver Winterhalter when she was still Princess of Wales. Alexandra's ravishing beauty was perfectly captured here by the artist. Beautiful, elegant, charming, and possessing a good nature, these qualities befitting a princess and a future queen, quickly endeared her to the British people the moment she arrived from her native Denmark, and this affection held to her would last until after her death.

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