Media Depiction of Queen Alexandra
Known for her somewhat media-friendly persona and photogenic appearance, since ascending to the throne, Alexandra has been depicted by various people in the media and has also personally made appearances in the media herself. For instance, in an episode of the 2016 miniseries Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, she appeared in a cameo role as herself who happens to befriend the character Rory Gilmore played by actress Alexis Bledel. In another instance, she also appeared on the reality television series Running Wild with Bear Grylls where in a special final episode of the show's third season, she, along with host and adventurer Bear Grylls together traversed through the Scottish Highlands, an experience she later described as "challenging but fun" and "personally groundbreaking", stating, "Prior to doing the show, I have never been on live television where by all accounts people get to see me at my most vulnerable just trying to scale or climb hills and mountains because that's exactly what I did and the fact that I wasn't doing it in private but rather on television meant something very new to me and to some extent definitely changed me in a way". Owing to her popularity, the episode became one of the series' most-watched episodes with an estimated viewership of 4.51 million which topped the previous number of 3.55 million for a separate special episode involving United States President Barack Obama. Meanwhile, in 2022, Alexandra herself appeared in the Netflix documentary Rise of The Lionesses as an integral former member of the England women's national team that won the 2015 and 2019 Women's World Cups and the UEFA Women's Euro 2017, England's first few international honours for the women's national team.
In addition to that, Alexandra has also appeared as herself in the popular GQ: Actually Me series, in which she, via impromptu accounts created on popular social media sites including Instagram, Quora, and Youtube, would reply to online questions asked by internet users, as well as in WIRED's autocomplete interviews where she would reply to a random autocomplete question on the search engine Google. Furthermore, Alexandra also made a celebrity appearance as herself in the long-running automotive show Top Gear where in a special episode of the show's twenty-seventh season, she, along with her half-brother William Smith participated in a two-lap race around the Top Gear test track using their favourite personal vehicles, with Alexandra's being her McLaren GT and her half-brother's being the latter's own McLaren 570S. In the end, Alexandra herself narrowly won the race against her half-brother with a recorded time difference of 0.60 seconds.
In both 2015 and 2019 respectively, Alexandra was featured on the UK version of EA Sports' FIFA 15 and FIFA 19 video games, becoming one of the first few female footballers to be featured on the cover of any EA Sports games alongside the likes of Christine Sinclair, Alex Morgan, and Steph Catley, as well as the first siblings pair to be featured on the cover along with her half-brother William Smith who was regularly featured on the UK version of previous editions owing to his talent and popularity.