"Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion her self-image throughout her life and Kate Strasdin's fascinating new book shows us how. From tight tailoring and glamorous evening wear to elegant mourning, Inside the Royal Wardrobe provides an innovative, engaging analysis of how Alexandra led fashionable society." --Maria Hayward, University of Southampton, UK " Inside the Royal Wardrobe is an illuminating and poignant study of the clothes that made Queen Alexandra the most stylish woman in Britain. Skilfully weaving together public and private life, Strasdin shines new light on her compelling story." --Lucy Johnston, author of 19th-Century Fashion in Detail "Kate Strasdin's fascinating book gives us an intimate history of a queen who dressed to impress, and sets the stage for new understandings of the work that goes into fashioning celebrity." --Alison Matthews David, Ryerson University, USA "A fascinating introduction to Victorian and Edwardian values and attitudes towards clothing." -- Textile Society of America Newsletter "Strasdin provides a fascinating glimpse at the jobs and lives of the many dressmakers, dressers, lady's maids and bevy of other staff and vendors that were integral to maintaining Queen Alexandra's royal visage. I learned SO MUCH .

I encourage you to order this book yourself or request a copy for your local library, so that you and others can enjoy it as much as I did!" -- Cassidy Zachary, theartofdress.org "For the dress historian and also the social and economic historian, as well as those interested in monarchical history and gender studies, it contains a wealth of detail about the consumption and supply of clothing and accessories in the nineteenth century . It makes a compelling case for the importance of addressing the materiality of a subject." -- Costume.