A marble bust of Queen Alexandra when Princess of Wales wearing a low-cut and pleated gown with an ancient Egyptian scarab brooch, looking to her left with her hair tied back behind her head.

At the time of their wedding in 1863, Edward presented Alexandra with a suite of jewels inspired by antiquities he had seen at first hand in Egypt the previous year. Among the suite was a brooch created from an Egyptian scarab, probably bought by Edward during his travels and reset in London for the Princess (RCIN 14645). Alexandra chose to have the brooch recorded in this portrait bust by Mary Thornycroft.