The day before Victoria’s accession as Queen, Victoria wrote to her uncle King Leopold I of Belgium. The King’s state, I may fairly say, is hopeless; he may perhaps linger a few days, but he cannot recover ultimately. Yesterday the physicians declared he could not live till the morning, but today he is a little [read more]
From the Queen to the Empress Frederick – Balmoral, 15 June 1888 (Immediately following the death of her daughter’s husband, the German Emperor) Darling, darling, unhappy Child, I clasp you in my arms and to a heart that bleeds, for this is a double, dreadful grief, a misfortune untold and to the world at large. [read more]
Princess Victoria in her Journal – 15 June 1837 The news of the King are so very bad that all my lessons save the Dean’s are put off, including Lablache’s… and we see nobody. I regret rather my singing lessson, though it is only a short period, but duty and proper feeling go before all [read more]
Princess Alice’s son Friedrich, who had haemophilia, died after falling from a window. He was not even three years old. Balmoral – 2 June 1873 And now comes the dreadful calamity at Darmstadt which will so deeply move you. How awful! How dreadful! Only God was very merciful in taking the little darling so painlessly [read more]
The year 2019 marks the bicentenary of Queen Victoria, and although plenty of new books are being released for the occasion, there is also a steady stream of books being reprinted; like Victoria, Portrait of a Queen, which was first published in 2015. Victoria was born on 24 May 1819 at Kensington Palace in London [read more]
Several birthday gifts exchanged between Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert have gone on display at Osborne House in their new exhibition Victoria and Albert’s Birthdays at Osborne. It features, among other things, a white marble statue of a nude female figure seated on a rock and a painting of women in various states [read more]
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