The Queen to the Empress Frederick – Osborne, 6 January 1901 I am so grieved to see by your dear letters that your hands trouble you so. It is very troublesome (that they) hurt you so much. I attempt to write myself (instead of dictating). I don’t suffer from my eyes, only the sight is [read more]
Newly released documents from the National Archives in Kew from the estate of Princess Louise, Queen Victoria’s fourth daughter, have shown that she died in 1939 with an unpaid cigarette bill of 15 shillings at R Lewis Limited. The death duties file shows that Princess Louise left £239,260, 18 shillings and sixpence, worth more than [read more]
This article was written by Holly Sennett. Early Life Princess Helena of the United Kingdom was born on the 25th of May 1846 at Buckingham Palace. Helena was the third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Helena’s birth appears to have been somewhat problematic. Victoria laboured for longer than her earlier [read more]
Bamba Müller was born on 6 July 1848 as the daughter of Ludwig Müller and his mistress Sofia in Cairo. She was educated in Cairo by missionaries. In 1864, Duleep Singh, the last ruler of the Sikh empire before being dethroned by the British, was passing through Cairo and he visited the missionaries there. Later that month, he wrote to the [read more]
Sarah Forbes Bonetta was born around 1843 with the name Aina as a member of the Yoruba. The village she lived in was raided by an army in 1848, and while her parents were killed in the attack, Aina was taken captive and ended up at the court of King Ghezo due to her high [read more]
Alexandrina Victoria – Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India- has been commonly portrayed as a sombre matriarch dressed in her widow’s black. Here, however in collected extracts from the journals she kept from the age of thirteen- and which by the time of her death ran to 122 volumes- we glimpse [read more]
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