Part 3: Alexandra of Mecklenburg-Schwerin's Tiara
A robbery, an arrest, another arrest, Soviet prison, and the threat of nuclear war. No big deal, right?
This is final installment of the story of Alexandra of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and her Fabergé tiara. When we last left Alix and her family near the end of World War II, they had fled Mecklenburg for Schloss Glücksburg, near the Danish border.
But there was someone else at Glücksburg - someone the Allies wanted to get their hands on at any cost. Alix and her family got caught up in the manhunt for a famous Nazi, while her second son ran into trouble trying to safeguard their home, Schloss Ludwigslust, which was about to be occupied by the Red Army.
The final years of Alix's life were as full of drama as the early years we've already covered. The good news? Although it's a little hard to track what happened to this tiara during the war years, we know exactly where it ended up...and it's a happy ending for tiara lovers like us.
#fabergetiara #royaljewels #womeninhistory #royalty
Sources
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They're all in the accompanying blog post here: https://girlinthetiara.com/alexandra-of-mecklenburg-schwerins-tiara-part-3/
A big thank-you to everyone who reached out while I was making this series to help with translations and pronunciations. Another thank-you to Marlene Eilers Koenig for letting me use images from her collection in this video & the blog post. More thank-yous to Dr. Jonathan Petropoulos and Dr. Stephen Malinowski for writing back when I asked questions about Friedrich Franz's arrest.
In this video, I mentioned
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📹 Part 1 of Alix's story
https://youtu.be/TTXgRM7_xVg
📹 Part 2 of Alix's story
https://youtu.be/zZDPQ7bcysU
FIND ME ONLINE
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💻 Check out the site:
https://girlinthetiara.com/
💵 Unlock bonus content with Patreon:
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📬 Join the mailing list (and get Grand Duchess Louise of Baden's meatloaf recipe):
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ABOUT THE GIRL IN THE TIARA
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I tell stories about tiaras and the fascinating royal women who wore them. Join me as I follow these tiaras across generations and countries, through wars and revolutions and—sometimes—into darkness and disappearance and destruction.
This isn't the kind of history your professor lectured about. Instead, think of this as conversational history, like a mash-up of Drunk History and The Crown. Yes, there's a little swearing. There's also humor and heart and a boatload of compassion for these amazing royal women.
ABOUT ME
-------------------
I never intended to start a channel or a website about tiaras and royal history. But a midlife crisis forced me to re-examine my life. I gave up fiction writing after self-publishing 9 of the 10 books I'd written and earning next to nothing.
Instead of the misery of marketing books, I turned to my first love...royal history. So here I am, a 40-something burnout, trying to start over by recapturing her love of history, royal women, and their jewels.
Видео Part 3: Alexandra of Mecklenburg-Schwerin's Tiara канала The Girl in the Tiara
This is final installment of the story of Alexandra of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and her Fabergé tiara. When we last left Alix and her family near the end of World War II, they had fled Mecklenburg for Schloss Glücksburg, near the Danish border.
But there was someone else at Glücksburg - someone the Allies wanted to get their hands on at any cost. Alix and her family got caught up in the manhunt for a famous Nazi, while her second son ran into trouble trying to safeguard their home, Schloss Ludwigslust, which was about to be occupied by the Red Army.
The final years of Alix's life were as full of drama as the early years we've already covered. The good news? Although it's a little hard to track what happened to this tiara during the war years, we know exactly where it ended up...and it's a happy ending for tiara lovers like us.
#fabergetiara #royaljewels #womeninhistory #royalty
Sources
-------------
They're all in the accompanying blog post here: https://girlinthetiara.com/alexandra-of-mecklenburg-schwerins-tiara-part-3/
A big thank-you to everyone who reached out while I was making this series to help with translations and pronunciations. Another thank-you to Marlene Eilers Koenig for letting me use images from her collection in this video & the blog post. More thank-yous to Dr. Jonathan Petropoulos and Dr. Stephen Malinowski for writing back when I asked questions about Friedrich Franz's arrest.
In this video, I mentioned
--------------------------
📹 Part 1 of Alix's story
https://youtu.be/TTXgRM7_xVg
📹 Part 2 of Alix's story
https://youtu.be/zZDPQ7bcysU
FIND ME ONLINE
-----------------------------
💻 Check out the site:
https://girlinthetiara.com/
💵 Unlock bonus content with Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/girlinthetiara
📬 Join the mailing list (and get Grand Duchess Louise of Baden's meatloaf recipe):
https://girlinthetiara.com/mailing-list/
📝 See what's new on the blog:
https://girlinthetiara.com/blog/
ABOUT THE GIRL IN THE TIARA
----------------------------------------------------
I tell stories about tiaras and the fascinating royal women who wore them. Join me as I follow these tiaras across generations and countries, through wars and revolutions and—sometimes—into darkness and disappearance and destruction.
This isn't the kind of history your professor lectured about. Instead, think of this as conversational history, like a mash-up of Drunk History and The Crown. Yes, there's a little swearing. There's also humor and heart and a boatload of compassion for these amazing royal women.
ABOUT ME
-------------------
I never intended to start a channel or a website about tiaras and royal history. But a midlife crisis forced me to re-examine my life. I gave up fiction writing after self-publishing 9 of the 10 books I'd written and earning next to nothing.
Instead of the misery of marketing books, I turned to my first love...royal history. So here I am, a 40-something burnout, trying to start over by recapturing her love of history, royal women, and their jewels.
Видео Part 3: Alexandra of Mecklenburg-Schwerin's Tiara канала The Girl in the Tiara
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