Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld – Finding happiness (Part three)
Read part one here. Read part two here. As her daughter received the news of her accession, Victoria sat outside the door. The new Queen’s […]
Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Saalfeld
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-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 […]
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 baptism of the future Queen 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 Birth of the future Queen 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, […]