Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was born on 26 August 1819 as the second son of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. Frau Siebold, who had also delivered the future Queen Victoria in May, had arrived only three hours before “the little one uttered his first cry in [read more]
Read part one here. Read part two here. As her daughter received the news of her accession, Victoria sat outside the door. The new Queen’s first act was to ask for an hour alone and for her bed to be moved from her mother’s room. Victoria would spend the day trying to get close to [read more]
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]
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.
Today is my birthday. I am today fourteen years old! How very old!! I awoke at half-past five and got up at half-past 7. I received from Mamma a lovely hyacinth brooch and china pen tray. From Uncle Leopold a very kind letter, also one from sister Feodora. I gave Mamma a little ring. From [read more]
Queen Victoria’s relationship with her mother had always been difficult. This was certainly not helped by Sir John Conroy, the Comptroller of The Duchess of Kent’s household, who had promised to protect the Duchess after the death of the Duke of Kent and she soon came to depend on him. He used to cruelly tease [read more]
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