A page of 9 photographs, showing Queen Alexandra being photographed by William Downey; Princess Maud and her husband Prince Carl of Denmark, taken at the time of the State Opening of Parliament, 14 February 1901. The princess has captioned the page, 'Dressed for the opening of Parliament'. On this occasion Prince Carl had his mustache shaved off, as seen in formal portraits taken by Alice Hughes (see RCIN 2807458) and W & D Downey.

From a red leather-bound album with gold tooling on the front and back covers and spine; green silk endpapers, cotains 52 pages of gelatin silver prints of European and Russian royalty taken informally mostly by Princess Victoria (RCINs 2925071-2925122).