Queen Victoria’s sapphire and diamond coronet will be on permanent display this year at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, as part of the museum’s 2019 bicentenary celebration to mark the births of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, to whom of course, the museum owes its name. Displayed in the V&A Museum’s Jewellery Galleries, this magnificent coronet is among those pieces of…
Queen Victoria’s love of Scotland and the Scottish Highlands is of course, legendary – immortalised in a wealth of artworks, souvenir albums, including the Queen’s own watercolours and not least of course, the Queen’s Highland journals. She praised…
Prince Albert of Monaco and nephew host Christmas party for children
23rd December 2018
Christmas celebrations are all around, and it was no different in Monaco as Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco, hosted his traditional Christmas party at the Prince’s Palace of Monaco on 19 December, alongside his nephew, Louis Ducruet.
For this year’s party…
In a continuation of our two-part series, our Historian, Elizabeth Jane Timms, looks back at the death of Prince Albert:
The passing of the Prince Consort is, of course, synonymous with the Blue Room at Windsor Castle, where it took place, a room which I have researched for some six years. The room had been that in which Queen Victoria’s ‘Uncle King’ George IV had died on 26 June 1830. It…
In a two-part series, our Historian, Elizabeth Jane Timms, looks back at the death of Prince Albert:
Prince Albert, the beloved husband and Prince Consort of Queen Victoria, died on 14 December 1861, at Windsor Castle. So enormous were the consequences of this death, both…
The Story of the Effigies of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
3rd December 2018
The effigy of Queen Victoria has its own story. It rests next to that of the Prince Consort in the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore, one of the most remarkable buildings that was ever to be built in Victorian Britain, constructed as a burial place for Prince Albert and Queen…
As expected, the Monégasque Princely Family took part in the annual National Day celebrations in the small principality. They participated in Mass, the military parade, made an appearance on the balcony of the Prince’s Palace.
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The cold morning began with Mass at Saint Nicholas Cathedral with Prince Albert, Princess Charlene, Princess…
Details of the major restoration project being carried out at the final resting place of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at Windsor have been revealed. It’s a rare chance to see behind the scenes at the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore where the queen and her beloved consort…
Prince Albert and Princess Charlene attend Monte Carlo Gala for the Global Ocean
29th September 2018
This past week, Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene of Monaco attended the second Monte Carlo Gala for the Global Ocean in the heart of Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Their Serene Highnesses were joined by the likes of Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, Leonardo…
In Prince & Patron, the Summer Opening Exhibition at Buckingham Palace, a bust of Prince Albert is displayed, labelled simply as ‘William Theed (1804-91) Prince Albert, 1862; marble.’ But it is no ordinary bust, nor is it just one among other memorial busts commissioned by the Queen. The bust had a unique place in the posthumous sculpture made of Prince Albert and was of quite singular…
