Article (magazine)  (2023)  
 
'The Queen Alexandra Rose’ has a faint sweet scent and no unpleasant odor of R. foetida. The major scent components are 2-phenylethanol and germacrene D. Fatty acid derivatives, the characteristic scent components of R. foetida, were not detected

Book  (Apr 1999)  Page(s) 557.  
 
The Queen Alexandra Rose Pernetiana. Samuel McGredy (Portadown, Ireland) 1918

Book  (Apr 1999)  Page(s) 491.  
 
The Queen Alexandra Rose Pernetiana. McGredy, 1918. The author cites information from different sources... The complex old-gold of the bud is revealed as the petals unfurl, gradually showing the most brilliant vermilion-scarlet at the top, with pure gold settling at the base of the petals as if by gravity, both being reabsorbed again into a minimum-red as the flower ages...

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 603.  
 
The Queen Alexandra Rose Hybrid Tea, bright red, reverse shaded old-gold, base orange, 1918, ('Queen Alexandra'); McGredy. Description.

Book  (1971)  
 
p12. ….1917…..A year later the trade was excited by the appearance from Portadown of a fine new rose, The Queen Alexandra Rose, with petals of bright vermilion and old gold. This rose was extensively used in the McGredy nurseries for breeding, its progeny including the orange-scarlet 'Margaret McCredy' and the scarlet-copper-orange 'Mrs. Sam McGredy'.

p137. The Queen Alexandra Rose, bred by my grandfather, was the first bicolour, in red and yellow, the start of all the bicolours. Grandfather bred it from the' Austrian Copper', and this is an interesting series to follow through. Queen Alexandra seems now a rather scruffy red and yellow hybrid tea – though Mansfield describes it as bright vermilion with reverse of old gold – but at that time it was considered, and indeed it was, magnificent.

p152. The Queen Alexandra Rose. Fragrant, bright-red, reverse-shaded old-gold hybrid tea. One of the parents of 'Margaret McGredy', which is in its turn was a parent of 'Peace'. The sport of' Peace', 'Kronenbourg', reverts to the colour of 'The Queen Alexandra Rose'. Gold Medal R.N.R.S.

Book  (1965)  Page(s) 198.  
 
R. Harkness & Co. Ltd., Hitchin, Herts. advertisement. Our catalogue will be out in June..... the supplementary list now contains such rare items as 'The Queen Alexandra Rose'.

Website/Catalog  (1938)  Page(s) 42.  
 
Bush Roses
The Queen Alexandra (Pernetiana)... Intense vermilion with gold reverse. Fairly large and full. Strong spreading growth. A startling colour effect. A popular sort. Faint perfumed. Introduced 1918.

Book  (1937)  Page(s) 116.  
 
Allan A. Brundrett.  A Victorian Review of the Season's Novelties.
Dorothy McGredy, H.T. (S. McGredy and Sons).— Sent out as an improvement on The Queen Alexandra, but so far seems to be similar to that variety both in blooms and in poorness of growth.

Website/Catalog  (1937)  Page(s) 41.  
 
'Piccardy' .....Very like The Queen Alexandra.

Book  (1937)  Page(s) 100.  
 
Leonard Hollis.  Modern Roses. 
....The form of the modern bloom is too varied for the pronouncement of any sweeping generalisations. Some varieties containing pernetiana blood, and also a few others, produce a globular, loosely-built bloom, short in the petal, and therefore low-centred.  The Queen Alexandra Rose, Catalonia, Duchess of Atholl and Portadown Bedder are examples of what I mean.