Queen Victoria to King Leopold I of Belgium – 16 March 1861
Queen Victoria to King Leopold I of Belgium – 16 March 1861 On this, the most dreadful day of my life, does your poor broken-hearted child […]
Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Saalfeld
The Year of Queen Victoria – The relationship between Queen Victoria and her mother
Queen Victoria’s relationship with her mother had always been difficult. This was certainly not helped by Sir John Conroy, the Comptroller of The Duchess of […]
Queen Victoria in her Journal – 15 March 1861
Queen Victoria in her Journal – 15 March 1861 Oh, what agony, what despair was this. I knelt before her, kissed her dear hand and placed […]
The Year of Queen Victoria – The day Victoria learned she would Queen
The future Queen Victoria was just ten years old when she discovered that she would be Queen one day. The date was 11 March 1830 […]
The Year of Queen Victoria – Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf
Augusta was born on 19 January 1757 into a relatively minor noble family which was part of the Reuss junior line who ruled over an […]
Kensington Palace – A grand royal residence
The magnificent Kensington Palace was once a two-story mansion built by Sir George Coppin in 1605. It was purchased by Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of […]
