Kensington Palace is celebrating the birth of Queen Victoria within its walls 200 years ago with two exhibitions – Victoria: Woman and Crown and Victoria: A Royal Childhood. Accompanying the exhibition is the hardcover The Young Victoria by the late Deirdre Murphy, who was senior curator at Historic Royal Palaces until her death in 2018. The [read more]
From Queen Victoria to the German Empress – Windsor Castle, 7 July 1888 How well I know that feeling when the months change and the year. I have now been a widow four years and half more than I was a wife. And I had hoped for a year or two, and more, to be [read more]
The year 1839 caused scandal for Queen Victoria after the death of Lady Flora Hastings – a lady-in-waiting to Victoria’s mother, the Duchess of Kent. The scandal, which gave the Queen a negative image, is well known, and when the first season of Victoria aired on ITV (UK) and PBS (US), it was a central [read more]
It is nearly impossible to miss the fact that we are celebrating 200 years since Queen Victoria’s birth and one of the new books this year is by Lucy Worsley, who is also the chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces. Queen Victoria – Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow also known as Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That [read more]
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]
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