Victoria and Albert Archives - History of Royal Women

Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf – The grandmother of Victoria & Albert

January 19, 2019 Amy Eloise Kelly 0

Augusta was born on 19 January 1757 into a relatively minor noble family which was part of the Reuss junior line who ruled over an area in the centre of modern-day Germany. Her parents were Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf and Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schöneberg. If it were not for her marriage and offspring, [read more]

My Dearest Albert: Queen Victoria’s Life Through Her Letters And Journals- Karen Dolby Book Review

October 25, 2018 Amy Eloise Kelly 0

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]