All posts tagged "queen victoria"
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Queen Victoria’s earliest memoriesThe earliest memories of a historical personage are extraordinarily important, as not only do they reveal first consciousness of their world...
Blog Posts6th June 2019 -
‘Dear Mama’: A little-known memorial to the Duchess of KentOn 16 March 1861, Queen Victoria’s mother, the Duchess of Kent, died at Frogmore House, the private residence in Windsor Great...
Blog Posts5th June 2019 -
From Scotland with love: Queen VictoriaQueen Victoria’s visited Balmoral in her beloved Scottish Highlands in the late autumn of 1900. The Queen could not know it,...
Blog Posts3rd June 2019 -
Was Queen Victoria a Victorian?Was Queen Victoria a Victorian? The question is a complex and fascinating one to answer. In the immediate response, Victoria would...
Blog Posts31st May 2019 -
Queen Victoria’s Children’s Story: The Adventures of Alice LasellesAged 10 ¾ years old, Princess Victoria composed a story. This delightful children’s tale, written by the future Queen, survives in...
Blog Posts27th May 2019 -
Finding a ‘lost’ gift on the birth of a royal baby: Queen Victoria #200Charlotte Heidenreich von Siebold (1788-1859), referred to in most biographies of Queen Victoria simply as Madame Siebold, is a name often...
Blog Posts24th May 2019 -
Queen Victoria #200: Revisiting the birth of Queen VictoriaOn 24 May 1819, a baby girl was born whose birth would be of overwhelming importance but on whose delivery it...
Blog Posts24th May 2019 -
Finding the grave of Queen Victoria’s childhood nurseMrs Brock was the future Queen Victoria’s nurse. Called by her ‘dear Boppy’ (op. cit., Christopher Hibbert, Queen Victoria, A Personal...
Blog Posts23rd May 2019 -
Tea and Queen VictoriaQueen Victoria is for many, synonymous with the notion of afternoon tea, probably because the social ceremony became properly established during...
Blog Posts20th May 2019 -
Queen Victoria’s presents to her grandchildrenAs the ‘Grandmother of Europe’, as Queen Victoria was popularly termed, her very numerous grandchildren could, of course, expect to receive...
Blog Posts14th May 2019