Nicholas and Alexandra~1971~Nuptial Crown~Eaton Jigsaw Puzzle~The Treasure Collection~Ultra Rare Puzzle~Free Shipping

Nicholas and Alexandra~1971~Eaton Jigsaw Puzzle~Vintage~Very Rare~Condition is Used. Shipped free with USPS Priority Mail

This ultra rare puzzle from the Treasure Collection of Eaton puzzles is very unique. An early on round puzzle that has all 500 pieces in the box. I did count them. The box has some fading from age. The text on the back was prepared by Sotheby’s, Parke-Bernet of New York. Puzzle No. Z-235. We found this gem in an antique shop in Arizona. This is a rare collectible. We searched the internet and various sites and could only find a photo of the box. Add this to your collection!

On 19 April 1894, Tsarevich Nicholas was at the wedding of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse to their mutual cousin, Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Nicholas had also obtained permission from his parents, Tsar Alexander III and Empress Maria Feodorovna to propose to Ernst’s younger sister, Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt, one of the favorite granddaughters of Queen Victoria. The Emperor and Empress had initially been opposed to the match. However, Nicholas, who had first met Alix a decade earlier in St. Petersburg when Alix’s sister, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt married Nicholas’s uncle, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, was not to be dissuaded. Furthermore, Tsar Alexander’s health was beginning to fail.

Shortly after arriving in Coburg, Nicholas proposed to Alix. However, Alix, who was a devout Lutheran, rejected Nicholas’s proposal, as in order to marry the heir to the throne, she would have to convert to Russian Orthodoxy. However, Alix’s cousin, Kaiser Wilhelm II, who had been at the wedding along with their grandmother, Queen Victoria, came to speak to her, insisting that it was her duty to marry Nicholas, despite her religious scruples. Elizabeth also spoke with her, insisting that there were not that many differences between Lutheranism and Orthodoxy. At the prompting of the kaiser, Nicholas proposed for the second time, and she accepted.

At the Winter Palace, Alexandra was dressed in her wedding dress and imperial mantle. Her Honiton lace veil had been designed by her maternal grandfather Prince Albert and had been worn at the weddings of her mother, Princess Alice (who died in 1878 when Alexandra was six) and her sisters. She also wore the traditional Romanov nuptial crown, a 475 carat necklace and matching earrings that had belonged to Catherine the Great. Across her body, she wore the star and sash of the Order of St. Andrei. - From Wikipedia

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