When the future Queen Victoria was born in 1819, no one knew that she was the carrier of a blood disease that would go down in history as the “royal disease.” Haemophilia was quite misunderstood in Queen Victoria’s day, and few haemophiliacs were expected to live to adulthood. Queen Victoria’s youngest son Prince Leopold turned [read more]
From Queen Victoria to the Princess Royal – Osborne, 17 July 1859 My first impression on hearing this dreadful news is to write to you! God has taken a pure, lovely angel to him! She was too good for this world, poor dear Pedro! He had found an angel to cheer his hard, trying life [read more]
On 11 July 1818 at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, a double wedding took place in the drawing room at Kew Palace. The happy couples were the Duke of Clarence (the future King William IV) and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen and his younger brother the Duke of Kent and Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Why did they choose [read more]
Kensington Palace is celebrating the birth of Queen Victoria within their walls 200 years ago with two exhibitions – Victoria: Woman and Crown and Victoria: A Royal Childhood. Accompanying the exhibition is the exhibitions is the hardcover The Young Victoria by the late Deirdre Murphy who was senior curator at Historic Royal Palaces until her death [read more]
From Queen Victoria to the German Empress – Windsor Castle, 7 July 1888 How well I know that feeling when the months change and the year. I have now been a widow four years and half more than I was a wife. And I had hoped for a year or two, and more, to be [read more]
The year 1839 caused scandal for Queen Victoria after the death of Lady Flora Hastings – a lady-in-waiting to Victoria’s mother, the Duchess of Kent. The scandal, which gave the Queen a negative image, is well known, and when the first season of Victoria aired on ITV (UK) and PBS (US), it was a central [read more]
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