All posts tagged "queen victoria"
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Queen Victoria: The story of a royal statueOf the memorials in Kensington Gardens, many share a close connection with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the most important to...
Blog Posts16th July 2018 -
The Head of a Royal Angel: The Albert MemorialThe most important monument built to the memory of Prince Albert in London was the magnificent Gothic Albert Memorial in Kensington...
Blog Posts16th July 2018 -
The Royal Mausoleum of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert‘You are entering a consecrated building, the burial place of a Queen and her Consort. Please be as quiet as possible’....
Blog Posts12th July 2018 -
The Royal Family in 1846 – Queen Victoria’s favourite family picture‘The Royal Family in 1846’ by the fashionable German painter, Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-73) is an extraordinarily important image. Queen Victoria...
Blog Posts5th July 2018 -
The lost royal ‘zoo’ at WindsorRoyal menageries became homes for the many animals that were given in previous centuries as political presents from their respective countries...
Blog Posts5th July 2018 -
Prince Albert’s plaster hand and other contents of Queen Victoria’s coffinQueen Victoria, who ruled from 1837 to 1901, laid out some very specific instructions for her funeral. Her personal physician was...
Blog Posts4th July 2018 -
Madame Siebold, Royal Midwife: The woman who delivered Queen VictoriaOne of the earliest names that occurs in the life of the future Queen Victoria is that of ‘Siebold’; although the...
Blog Posts30th June 2018 -
The Swiss Cottage, Osborne and Queen Victoria’s ChildrenThe Swiss Cottage at Osborne is a capsule of successive royal childhood, which continued to hold a place in the affections...
Blog Posts28th June 2018 -
20 June 1837: Waking up Queen VictoriaOn 20 June 1837, Princess Victoria of Kent was awoken in her bedroom at Kensington Palace, writing later in her journal...
Blog Posts27th June 2018 -
The christening of Queen VictoriaUnlike the christenings of Queen Victoria’s children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, the christening of the future Queen is an event about which...
Blog Posts25th June 2018