Wife of Edward VII, mother of George V. Born at the Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark. As an adult gradually became profoundly deaf. It is said the Queen Victoria learnt the British Sign Language alphabet so as to be able to converse with her daughter-in-law. Died at Sandringham.
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Queen Alexandra
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Queen Alexandra statue
{On a large bronze plaque on the front of the plinth:} Her Majesty Queen Alex...
Queen Alexandra - SW1
The building behind this monument, Marlborough House, was where Alexandra and...
Surbiton clock tower
{Plaque beneath a medallion of King Edward VII:} Coronation clock tower - a s...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Queen Alexandra
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Chelsea Hospital for Women
Princess Alexandra was laying the foundation stone for the Chelsea Hospital f...
Edith Cavell statue
This was the obvious memorial to choose as the first featured memorial for Lo...
Tower Bridge, 1894 - opening
In 1894 the royal personages listed at the top of the plaque as: Prince of Wa...
Other Subjects
1 memorial
1 memorial
Queen Elizabeth II
Born 17 Bruton Street, to the Duke and Duchess of York. For information on where she was brought up see Byron Statue. When she was 10 her father became King George VI (on the abdication of his brot...
117 memorials
King Richard II
Became king aged 10, following the deaths of first his elder brother, then his father, Edward the Black Prince, and then his grandfather, Edward III. The Peasant's Revolt occurred when he was king...
1 memorial
King Henry VIII
Son of Henry VII. Born Born Greenwich Palace, as the spare, not the heir but his brother Arthur predeceased him and their father, aged 15, but not before marrying Catherine of Aragon, who later in ...
21 memorials
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Southwark Park Act gates
SE16, Southwark Park, carriageway
There are a pair of these gates on each side of the carriageway which bisects the Park.
1 subject commemorated
Royal Military Academy - original plaque
SE18, Artillery Square, Academy Performing Arts
Sometime 2011-17 the rather nice yellow plaque was replaced with the bronze rectangle which doesn't look new nor designed for an exterior...
3 subjects commemorated
Queen Mary (consort)
Wife of George V, grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. Born Princess Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes of Teck at Kensington Palace. Nicknamed May, the month of her birth. Her...
17 memorials
HGS residents killed in WW2 - gate
NW11, Temple Fortune Hill/Big Wood
From HGS Heritiage: "On 28th April 2001, a group of Suburb residents led by the Reverend Tony Spring formerly {sic} opened a new Memoria...
3 subjects commemorated
Reeves building
E8, Ashwin Street, 18
This building dates from 1868. Reeves moved out in 1948. The London Project associates the building with the early film industry, in 1907...
1 subject commemorated