All About Royal Families

My tree Tuesday picture of this week is taken in Salzburg (Austria) during our holiday in 2012. Salzburg Austria On the picture you see trees and a statue of people who play music. That's the link with one of the most notable man who was born in Salzburg in 1756.  Of course, I talk about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.  On next link you can listen to one of his most famous works: The magic flute. So far my Treetuesdaypost, I wish you all a very nice and Sunny day!

On September 1st. 1878 a young girl was born in Rosenau Castle in Coburg (Germany). She received the long name: Princess Alexandra Louise Olga Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha- Source picture: Wikipedia Her parents were Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha  (second eldest son of Queen Victoria) and  Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia (daughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and Marie of Hesse and by Rhine). Princess Alexandra was nicknamed Sandra in her family. She spent her childhood first in England and Malta where her father served in the Royal Navy. Throughout her life, Princess Alexandra was overshadowed by her two eldest sisters  (Marie and Victoria) and her mother who wanted that her daughters married  very young, which Queen Victoria complained. She married on April 20th. 1896 Prince Ernst of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.  They had 5 children.  Princess Alexandra spent the rest of her