From Queen Victoria to the Princess Royal – Windsor Castle, 11 December 1861 I can, I am thankful to say, report another good night. I am writing in the room next to where beloved Papa is sleeping. The doctors are satisfied; he holds his ground and contrary to what is generally the case with such [read more]
On 8 December 1826, John Brown, who would become Queen Victoria’s close confidant after Prince Albert’s death, was born at Crathienaird as the second son of John Brown, a tenant farmer, and Margaret Leys. The family would grow to include 11 children – 9 boys and two girls – though some would die in childhood. [read more]
Queen Victoria may have grown up without much contact with the outside world, but she had some company in the form of her elder half-sister. Princess Feodora of Leiningen was born on 7 December 1807 to Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen and Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Saalfeld in Amorbach. She had an elder brother, [read more]
From Queen Victoria to the Empress Frederick – Windsor Castle, 6 December 1891 Since yesterday the great event of Eddy’s engagement with May Teck has taken place. People here are delighted and certainly she is a dear, good and clever girl, very carefully brought up, unselfish and unfrivolous in her tastes. She will be a [read more]
Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert were enthusiastic patrons of watercolour painting. They were also avid practitioners. They eventually had a collection of thousands of paintings, including many that illustrated scenes from their own life. The Victoria & Albert: Our Lives in Watercolour book accompanies a travelling exhibition, which I have not had the [read more]
From Queen Victoria to King Leopold I of Belgium – 29 November 1841 I would have written sooner, had I not been a little bilious, which made me very low, and not in spirits to write… They think that I shall not get my appetite and spirits back till I can get out of town; [read more]
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