I am a PhD student at University of Sheffield where I am currently researching representations of Queen Alexandra in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century political print, specifically from 1863 to 1925. My research encompasses themes relating to femininity and gender, cosmopolitan and European monarchy, and liberal politics throughout the period. Through these themes, I have written about Alexandra’s role as part of a wider, European monarchy, Alexandra’s disabilities and how she popularised them due to her status as a fashion icon, and how late nineteenth-century republicanism impacted the nature of the monarchy. Key moments included in my research are the heyday of the British Empire, the wedding of the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1863, Queen Victoria’s death in 1901, King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra’s coronation in 1902, the fin de siècle, the First World War, and beginning of the roaring twenties.

My master’s thesis, titled The Self, the Family, and the Public: Representations and Misrepresentations of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in the Political Press, 1761 – 1818 focused on images of Queen Charlotte published in the political press which were compared to commissioned portraiture. This project explored the difference between self-expression and public portrayal, as well as late eighteenth-century and regency era queenship and political sentiment. It was my master’s thesis which inspired my PhD topic about Queen Alexandra.

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