2-717-122 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Princess Alexandra in the East End: Her Royal Highness attending one of her dinners for poor children at the People's Palace', c1897, (1901). Princess Alexandra of Denmark (1844-1925, future Queen Alexandra) and her husband Prince Albert Edward (1841-1910), the future King Edward VII, at the People's Palace in Mile End, east London. Alexandra devoted much of her time to charitable work - here food is provided for children of poor families. From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]