From Queen Victoria to the German Crown Princess – Osborne, 2 July 1862 Poor Alice’s wedding (more like a funeral than a wedding) is over and she is a wife! I say God bless her – though a dagger is plunged in my bleeding, desolate heart when I hear from her this morning that she [read more]
Queen Victoria’s coronation took place on Thursday, 28 June 1838 in Westminster Abbey; she had become monarch at the age of 18 on 20 June 1837 upon the death of her uncle King William IV. Following tradition, the coronation ceremony was in London’s Westminster Abbey and took place after Queen Victoria left Buckingham Palace in the [read more]
From Queen Victoria to the Empress Frederick – Windsor Castle, 27 June 1894 You rejoice as I do, indeed, and as the whole nation does, at the birth of dear George’s boy. It is a great pleasure and satisfaction but not such a marvel, for if Alicky had not refused Eddy in ’89 I might [read more]
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 Cupola Room of Kensington Palace by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Charles Manners-Sutton. The private affair, ordered by the Prince Regent (George III’s son, the Prince of Wales and later King [read more]
Kensington Palace shared this video about a fascinating document now on display as part of Victoria: A Royal Childhood, and Victoria’s first morning as Queen from experts Claudia Williams and Victoria Iglikowski. The document is on loan from The National Archives.
On 23 June 1887, two Indians served Queen Victoria breakfast in Frogmore House at Windsor. Queen Victoria was enchanted by the younger of the two – Abdul Karim. He would go on to serve her for over a decade. Abdul Karim was born in 1863 to Haji Mohammed Waziruddin, and he was just 13 years [read more]
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