Prince Leopold was the eighth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and the youngest of their sons. He was born April 7, 1853, and delivered with the aid of chloroform, administered by the Royal accoucheur, Dr. John Snow. He was the first of the Queen’s children to be born with her under it; Beatrice who followed four years later and was the last of the line, also received it as the Queen was trying to popularize the drug. The safe arrival of Prince Leopold didn’t silence opposition to obstetric anesthesia altogether, but the Queen’s heartily expressed enthusiasm for pain-free…
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Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna was christened Princess Alix of Hesse when she born in Darmstadt, Germany on the sixth of June 1872 at 3:45 AM. Marc Jones does not give a time, but the UK Astrological Association does from the research done by member Luc de Marre who obtained the data from state archives in Hesse. The prelude She was originally slated to marry Prince Albert Victor, but she was not popular at the British Court, and the “quiet” 4Mary of Teck (later Queen Mary) was chosen in her stead. Alix snubbed and outraged by this change in plans, was then…
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Tsarevich Alexei was the only son of Tsar Nicholas & Empress Alexandra of Russia. His birth was announced by his father on August 12, 1904 as at 1:00 PM and heralded by a twenty-gun salute.¹ Marc Jones incorrectly states that the “Czarevitch Alexis Nikolaevich” was born at 12 noon. His Ascendant is 10 Scorpio that falls in the twelfth house; Alexander the Great is said to have this degree as his Moon. Positively it is an affectionate but fickle aspect but most importantly denotes a change in fortune; President Lincoln had it for his Uranus. His Jupiter is at 00.07 Taurus,…
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Empress Alexandra Feodorovna Romanov, Queen Victoria of England, Emperor Nicholas, Bolshevists, Capricorn 21, Cancer 29 Aries 24 Gemini 07 Part of Self-Undoing Part of Fortune Part of Treachery Part of Tragedy, Chiron Sagittarius 23 Gemini 13 Star Nunki Pelagus
