Why Queen Mary SECRETLY Hated Her Mother-In-Law Queen Alexandra

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  @joanbroad3528 · 1 month ago

  Good grief what a rambling narrative that waffles on and on without saying much! Alexandra was a very decent and kind woman who put up with her husband and his miserable mother for decades. Mary for all her quiet obedience was a shrewd and calculating woman, who successfully bought a great deal of jewels from desperate Russians trying to escape the revolution for a pittance and systematically stole any items she took a fancy to! Mary treated her children like her subjects, remote and frigidly. I think Alexandra was genuinely childlike who loved her family and siblings dearly, who broke all royal rules with her children’s upbringing, plus she adored all her many animals and delighted in her every one of her grandchildren. I know who I would have liked to have known!

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• D.

  @d.begumbeycan2635 · 1 month ago

  Queen Alexandra is a fashion icon and a very elegant woman. Unfortunately, there is a deep sadness in her eyes. Some people's loneliness and unhappiness reflect not only on their soul but also on their appearance , Teck, on the other hand, is an ambitious, dominant, and power-hungry woman. Even though she was a German, she tried to be more English than the English. I think Alexandra was the queen who suited the throne the most

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• CA

  @carlcushmanhybels8159 · 1 month ago (edited)

  Queen Alexandra was loved, voted favorite Royal, a kind patient caring person toward people and animals.  E.g., in the opening clip you show Queen Alexandra had been among several Royals at the Gate waiting to go somewhere.  Alexandra noticed the horses to pull the carriage were patiently waiting too,  Alexandra got some horse-appealing snacks (apple pieces...) went up to the horses and fed the patient horses the tasty snack.  Another:  When Edward VII died, Alexandra allowed Edward's top 2 mistresses to visit and grieve at the house.  Alexandra before marriage as a Danish princess had been invited by Queen Victoria to the Palace for a weekend where Queen Vic filled in Alexandra on what Edward was like. Alex absorbed it well.

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• JA

  @Jack-py3cv · 1 month ago

  Queen Alexandra was warm and loved.  Mary was not

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• DK

  @dkpelkey7148 · 1 month ago (edited)

  Please........... King George and Queen Mary did not suffer ad nauseum at York Cottage, as is intimated in this tale. It was probably the smallest of their residences. However, they had Buckingham Palace, as well as Windsor Castle, with all of it's various sub buildings. Also, Balmoral Castle, Sandringham and a myriad of other Royal Lodges to satisfy their housing needs. King George and Queen Mary didn't have to worry in the least as to where they resided. Queen Alexandra endured much from being part of the Saxe Cobourg Gotha family and did a good job at it. Her treatment from Edward VII was humiliating, callous and cruel.. She carried the pain internally. She didn't air her pain publicly as would be the case today. Queen Alexandra was profoundly deaf and endured much. AAA+++

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• DA

  @DamonLawrence-u2e · 1 month ago

  George v could have lived at Windsor or Buckingham.  He preferred York cottage because it made him feel like a regular person, which deep down is what he wanted to be.

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• CH

  @charlesgervin714 · 1 month ago (edited)

  Sandringham House was built exclusively for the then Prince Edward and Princess Alexandria. The property was a private gift from Queen Victoria to them. It was brought as privately property, so Queen Alexandria was left it as the only living partner at the death of her husband. She owned it and that fact was emphasized in the King's will. At the death of King Edward VII there was no established precedent for the monarch to live there. At George V's death the property passed, as private property, to Edward VIII. George VI had to buy the property from the then Duke of Windsor as part of the abdication settlement. So the tradition of the monarch living in the big house at Sandringham is a myth created by the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II who lived there as sovereign. She had been left it by her father as opposed to the arrangement and situation of King Edward VII, Dowager Queen Alexandria, and Queen Mary. Sandringham House is private property and is not part of the publicly supported Crown Estates.

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  @p.sch.3922 · 1 month ago

  Queen Alexandra was humiliated by her mother in law and her husband for many many years...

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• IA

  @ianmacdonald9932 · 1 month ago

  Sorry but this is total bunkum. Sandringham was a private estate not Crown property like Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle. It was given to Edward by Queen Victoria on marriage as HIS home. In his will he left a life interest to his widow - as it was personal property he was able to do whatever he wanted with it. There was no “royal precedent” to follow here. Balmoral was also a private estate that went direct to George V (as the eldest son) by wasn’t his matrimonial home.<br><br>The late Queen Mother look a long time to leave BP too &amp; also was reluctant to adjust to her new role as dowager Queen. So Alexandra wasn’t unique here.<br><br>Alexandra had suffered much worse than Mary &amp; for much longer too. With nearly 40 years in Victoria’s shadow with a unfaithful husband. Mary’s husband was faithful &amp; she waited only 17 years to become Queen. She chose to marry George after being previously engaged to his older brother who died. She didn’t have to do this. Neither as Mary an outsider as suggested. She was direct descended of George III through her mother, a first cousin of Victoria. Alexandra by contrast wasn’t directly related to the Hanovers, but a Danish princess with siblings on many European thrones. Her marriage was arranged for her with virtually no say from her. <br><br>As others as noted, Mary had three royal residences to move into when her husband succeed. It was her husband who decided to still use York Cottage not his mother, probably out of deference to his father’s wishes &amp; possibly his own preference to keep things simple &amp; unchanged in at least one home he had since marriage. I see nothing here to justify the thumbnail here except for clicks?

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• MA

  @marilynpenner9196 · 1 month ago (edited)

  Sandringham was Alexandra&apos;s house. She took her time about moving to it from Buckingham Palace, and George was her child. She called him &quot;Georgie&quot;. He called her &quot;Motherdear&quot;.They had a close bond. His unmarried sister, Victoria, attended her, so he could not force two women close to him in affection with whom he had spent childhood out of their house. Mary was more his partner than his beloved wife. He had to be heir apparent when his brother Albert Victor, died, and Queen Victoria wanted him to marry Mary. So they did their duty, and had children to be heirs.They learned to like each other, but to ask what Mary wanted would be like asking his fellow sailor what he wanted. So I am sure he did not ask her and she knew better than to tell him. &quot;Want&quot; never entered into what they lived in. &quot;Duty&quot; did. Just like &quot;duty&quot; was what was expected of their children. Why their daughter Mary married a man her father&apos;s age and Edward was supposed to marry a suitable girl and Albert, Henry, and George married &quot;suitable girls&quot;. Also, George had accepted that York Cottage was &nbsp;his married home. He did not have &quot;princely&quot; tastes. He had been a naval man. He furnished it from Maples, like any middle-class man would.<br>Mary may have resented her mother-in-law&apos;s hold on her husband; but what was she due &nbsp;in that family? Her husband was &quot;the King&quot;, and she and the children were his servants. Her mother-in-law, according to her husband, was still to be treated as &quot;the Queen&quot;, since he did not push her out of B.P. Mary was just an officer on her husband&apos;s ship. When her son David became king, she curtseyed and kissed his hand. She curtseyed to her granddaughter Elizabeth when Elizabeth became Queen. That&apos;s the way it was.

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• JU

  @justMe.M · 1 month ago

  Mary knew that she was there from the start, just hanging by chance. She was a poor relation to queen Victoria. The first fiancé died and any of a variety of things could&apos;ve happened but she still managed to marry. - &nbsp;Alexandria was from a wealthy family and won that place by putting up with all the embarrassment (and probably illnesses) from her husband. <br>At the end of the day, Mary lived there for the longest part of her life where she wanted, and had her chance to boss around everyone as well.

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  @DouglasMcCulley · 1 month ago

  Edward VII bought and built Sandringham- he left it to Alexandra in his will, she had every right to live there. George V should have built a manor like his father did. There&apos;s more of a story in how hard it was to get Aleaxandra out of Buckingham Palace as a widow and how she convinced her husband not to &nbsp;bestow the title Prince of Wales on their son he E7 became king.

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