Imperial Requiem: Four Royal Women and the Fall of the Age of Empires (42 page)

The Hessian princesses, 1906.
Left to right
: Alexandra, Victoria, Ella, and Irene.

Dona and Wilhelm looking stately and dignified in a formal portrait, 1910.

Tsarina Alexandra in formal Russian court regalia.

Dona and her daughter, Princess Victoria Louise, riding through the streets of Berlin, 1911.

Zita and Charles on their wedding day, October 21, 1911.

The Russian imperial family in 1913.
Left to right
: Marie, Alexandra (with Alexei seated in front of her), Olga, Tatiana, Nicholas II, and Anastasia.

Mary, queen of England and empress of India, c. 1913.

Augusta Victoria, German empress and queen of Prussia, 1913.

Tsar Nicholas II and King George V, 1913.

Queen Mary with her daughter, Princess Mary, as a nurse during World War I.

Zita in her coronation robes as queen of Hungary, 1916.

Emperor Charles I of Austria, king of Hungary, 1917.

Dona in exile at Amerongen, 1921.

Queen Mary, c. 1930.