Enjoy Victoria Day or Journee Des Patriotes the official start of the summer in Canada! Drive carefully!
Victoria & Abdul costume designer Consolata Boyle examined some of Victoria’s actual, century-old gowns.
Our ultimate guide to royal names! Discover popular and classic names fit for a king or queen, see what today’s princely parents are naming their children, and check out more names with regal meanings.
Alexandrina Victoria was born to the Duke and Duchess of Kent on 24th of May in 1819. Here are just some photographs and paintings representing moments in her life.... Duke of Kent, Queen Victoria's father Duchess of Kent, Queen Victoria's mother 'Look at her well, for she will be Queen of England' (Victoria's parents) This portrait has two painters named as the source: A portrait of Princess Victoria as a small girl with her mother, Victoria, Duchess of Kent, c.1824. This portrait was painted by the artist Henry Bone (1755-1834) and was acquired by Queen Victoria c.1861. Also, a portrait painted by William Beechey. Baby Victoria (no information provided) Princess Victoria, age four, by Stephen Poyntz Denning Princess Victoria by Henry Collen, 1836, Watercolor on ivory laid on card at the Royal Collection Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Queen Victoria with her familyby John Jabez Edwin Mayall,albumen carte-de-visite, 1863,NPG Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Queen Victoria and their childrenby John Jabez Edwin Mayall, albumen carte-de-visite photomontage, circa 1861 Queen Victoria and familyby Lafayette (Lafayette Ltd),bromide proof print, April 1900 Group of fifteen, including Queen Victoria by W. & D. Downey albumen print, 25 May 1868
In 1857, Queen Victoria posed for the first royal photo ever, and the world promptly fell in love with photographing royals. Here are some of the more memorable, yet less widely seen, photos of the royal family throughout the years.
Program for a musical event held at Exhibition Park on June 22, 1897, featuring the Festival Chorus of the Toronto School Children. Title: God Save the Queen. / 1837 Diamond Jubilee. 1897 Creator: Unknown Date: 1897 Published: Toronto, Canada: 1897. Identifier: 1897. Diamond; i19_God Save the Queen 1897 Diamond Jubilee front Format: Ephemera Rights: Public domain More information: This image was published in connection with "Royal Fanfare", a TD Gallery exhibit running from September 22 to December 2, 2012.
Her Majesty Queen Victoria, By the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India, Spinner A recent news article * about Prince Charles giving Camilla two sheep for...
Princess Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland, late 1880s. Niece of Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom and Empress Maria Feodorovna.
Arnold Awoonor-Gordon, 85, discovered the truth about his great-great-grandmother Sarah Forbes Bonetta after moving to Chatham, Kent from Sierra Leone around 25 years ago.
Queen Victoria by John Jabez Edwin Mayall in 1860. One of the first published photographs of the Queen. The public had never seen or been able to buy a photograph of the Queen before and once …
#QueenVictoria with Hafiz Mohammed Abdul Karim and Mohammed Buksh.
Queen Victoria, Alexandra Princess of Wales her children Prince Albert Victor, Prince George and Princess Louise, Prince Leopold Duke of Albany, Princess Louise Duchess of Argyll and Princess...
To the outside world Queen Victoria and Prince Albert seemed the embodiment of domestic bliss, but the reality was very different.
One of the most unexpected Nineteenth Century stories you'll hear today.
Empress Victoria of Germany.
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Queen Victoria sometimes penned several letters a day to Abdul Karim - and often signing them 'Your affectionate Mother'.
The candid black-and-white photographs, most of which were taken in the 19th century, show men and women sticking their tongues out and messing around on the beach in the 1890s.
Judi Dench will star as the Empress of India in Victoria And Abdul, which is based on the real-life friendship that developed between the widowed queen and Abdul Karim, writes Baz Bamigboye.
history meme | seven pairings: queen victoria and prince albert The match between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was probably the most famous royal pairing in the recent...
The Queen was handed a remote control in Buckingham Palace’s throne room, which she pointed at a screen to officially launch the website - but revealed she had no plans to publish her own diaries.
AS the Queen celebrates her 90th birthday, she may give a special cheers to the person who has supported, advised, loved and laughed away many of the years with her.
♕ Queen Victoria: Grandmama of Europe It is a well known fact that Queen Victoria of England saw in her children a destiny to marry into all the great royal houses of Europe. And so her wish was...
Impress your friends. Wow your family. Mystify your dates.
A New Reproduced British Royalty Photograph Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales This new 6 inches by 4 inches photograph was reproduced from a postcard of circa 1890s. Newly printed on 230 gram glossy photo paper. Mailing cost from France to any location will be 1.75p by standard airmail.
The portrait, known as ‘the secret picture’, was commissioned by the young Queen in 1843 as a 24th birthday present for her beloved husband Albert.
And until now it had always been thought that Prince Albert’s unexpected passing on December 14, 1861 - at the age of just 42 - had been caused by a virulent bout of typhoid fever.
Queen Victoria on horseback, a preparatory sketch by Sir Francis Grant, 1845. Maria Theresia as Queen of Hungary on the crowning hill of Pressburg, unknown artist, circa 1741. Unknown, ND. (This should rather be labeled a "mule-y lady.") Laetitia, Lady Lade, by George Stubbs, 1793. Detail of above. Baronne X. - Amazone en chapeau haut-de-forme devant un étang, by Alfred de Dreux, circa 1845-50. Princess Marie Henriette of Austria, after 1865 Queen of the Belgians, circa 1860. (Two images.) Mrs. Margaretta Park Frew Riding, by Sir Alfred James Munnings, circa 1924. The Empress Eugénie, by Charles-Édouard Boutibonne, 1856. The now lost Château de Saint-Cloud is to be seen in the background. The Empress Elizabeth of Russia, by Georg Christoph Grooth, circa 1743-49. Grand Duchess later Empress Maria Feodorovna, circa 1860s. Same as above, circa 1870s. Detail of above. Maria Feodorovna's sister, Alexandra, Princess of Wales, and her husband the future Edward VII, Sandringham, before 1867. Alexandra, Princess of Wales, circa 1886. (Note that she's seated on the off side; after a severe bout with rheumatic fever in 1867, she was left with a permanently stiff right knee and thereafter had to use a sidesaddle with the pommel on the "wrong" side.) Lady on Horseback, Joseph Campeche, 1785. (For whatever reason, her saddle is also on the "wrong" side.) Maria Anna of Neuburg, Queen of Spain, by Luca Giordano, 1693-94. Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, by Tethart Philip Christian Haag, 1789. (Unusually, she is riding astride.) Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna, circa 1860s. This looks to be a photographic image of the Grand Duchess melded with a photograph of an actual painting - a very early version of Photoshop. The Pavlovsk Palace can be seen in the background. Unknown, ND. This appears to be some version - a preparatory sketch, using a different model? - of the following image. Isabel II dirigiendo una revista militar, Charles Porion, 1867. Amazone au caraco jaune, by Alfred de Dreux, circa 1840-50s. Grand Duchesses Tatiana and Olga Nikolaevna and their aunt, Grand Duchess Eleonore of Hessen und bei Rhein, Livadia, 1912. Madame la duchesse de la Ferté, from a series of French court ladies, all by Joseph Parrocel, circa 1670s. Madame la duchesse d'Aumont, from the same series. Madame la comtesse d'Armagnacq, from the same series. Madame la duchesse de Bouillon, from the same series. Unknown, ND. Marie Jeanne Baptiste de Savoie-Nemours, duchessa di Savoia, the self-styled "Madama Reale", by Charles Dauphin (?), circa 1660-70s. Woman in French Garde du Corps uniform, unknown artist, circa 1787. Caterina Insarda marchesa di Caluso and Eleonora Delibera San Martino marchesa di Parella, unknown artist, Savoy, circa 1658-63. Unknown, ND. Isabel of France, Queen of Spain and Portugal, by Diego Velázquez, 1635-36. Margarita of Austria, Queen of Spain and Portugal, by Diego Velázquez, 1634-35. Painted more than twenty years after her death. Empress Elisabeth at the hunt, circa 1870-80. Queen Marie Antoinette at the hunt, by Louis-Auguste Brun, called "Brun de Versoix", 1783. Emma Powles on her Grey Hunter accompanied by her spaniel in a river landscape, by Jaques-Laurent Agasse, circa 1810-20. Queen María Luisa of Spain, by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1799. The courtesan Catherine Walters aka "Skittles" (?), circa 1870s. (Notice the painted backdrop.) The comtesse de Ranchicourt leaving for the hunt, by Théodore Chassériau, 1854.
Rachel Cooke is enthralled by the life of a spirited princess who thrived despite her upbringing
