The fact that a woman who is a member of the British royal family by marriage derives her rank in court exclusively from her husband seemed irrelevant: Alexandra was led to believe, by the Russian example, that she should outrank her daughter-in-law, born Princess May of Teck, despite the latter having become the new queen consort.
Did this mean that in public functions, she attempted to push her way to the front of the line, despite being only a dowager queen, by marching arm-in-arm with her son, King George V -- relegating Queen Mary to second place, marching alongside one of the princes in the land?
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