The Year of Queen Victoria – Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld – Finding happiness (Part two)
Read part one here. Shortly after her husband’s death, Victoria was persuaded to return to London, and on 23 January she did so with Feodora, […]
Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Saalfeld
The Year of Queen Victoria – Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld – Finding happiness (Part one)
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was born on 17 August 1786 as the daughter of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Countess Augusta of Reuss-Ebersdorf. Her parents […]
The Year of Queen Victoria – A double wedding at Kew
On 11 July 1818 at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, a double wedding took place in the drawing room at Kew Palace. The happy couples […]
The Year of Queen Victoria – The Baptism of Victoria
Queen Victoria, or Princess Alexandrina Victoria as she was to be known before taking the throne, was baptised into the Church of England in the […]
The Year of Queen Victoria – The Birth of Victoria
At Kensington Palace in the early hours (4.15 am) of 24 May 1819, Alexandrina Victoria was born to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, […]
The Year of Queen Victoria – The race to have Victoria born on British soil
The Duke of Kent was convinced that his future child would have a good chance of inheriting the throne, even though the Duchess of Clarence […]
