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5 days ago · The Royal Family in 1846. In this well-known picture Queen Victoria is skilfully depicted as both sovereign and mother. The scene is one of domestic harmony, peace and happiness, albeit with many allusions to royal status: grandeur in the form of jewels and furniture, tradition (through the Order of the Garter) and the continuation of the royal ...
1 day ago · In 1900, a year before she died, Queen Victoria visited Dublin, provoking a ferocious debate within Ireland. Newsreel footage at the time shows that thousands of people turned up to meet the ...
2 days ago · Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel; 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria. As such, he was consort of the British monarch from their marriage on 10 February 1840 until his death in 1861. Victoria granted him the title Prince Consort in 1857.
1 day ago · The coronation of Queen Victoria took place on 28 June 1838. The occasion was not just a royal affair in Westminster Abbey. Joyful celebrations marked the occasion in marketplaces and usually tranquil village greens. This poster, for Wells, Somerset, vividly captures the amusements. Here’s a newspaper report on the celebrations at St Neots.
4 days ago · Buckingham Palace, palace and London residence of the British sovereign. It is situated within the borough of Westminster. The palace takes its name from the house built (c. 1705) for John Sheffield, duke of Buckingham. It was bought in 1762 by George III for his wife, Queen Charlotte, and became.
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5 days ago · Who Was Queen Victoria? Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian Era, a period of industrial, cultural, scientific, and political change that was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.
5 days ago · Victorian-era architecture spanned more than 60 years and it encompasses overlapping styles including early Gothic Revival, Folk Victorian, Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Stick, Romanesque Revival, Shingle, Colonial Revival, and the popular Queen Anne style at the tail end of the era.
