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Re: Colour of Queen Alexandra's dresses
Thank You Beth for your amazing research!! Like other posters I had also read that Alexandra favoured colours of half-mourning after Prince Eddy's death but your research clearly shows the Queen wore quite an array of colours. Maybe the press of the day was pretty similar to todays and saw clues and symbols in things where none existed. (I'm sure some posters remember the countless wasted column inches over the choice of Queen Elizabeth's brooch during a recent presidential visit from USA). In the recent Swedish jewel documentary at the very beginning of the program they mention (I'm paraphrasing) that sometimes assumptions are repeated often enough that they are taken as fact. Maybe that is the case here as well.
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