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Jul 13, 2018 · Prince Albert, a staunch advocate of science and healthy living, led by example by building a new royal residence by the sea in 1845: Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. The royal family spent many summers from July to August at their palatial holiday home, with Queen Victoria continuing to stay there regularly long after Albert died in 1861.
Mar 21, 2014 · Donald Simpson Bell, the only English footballer to have ever been awarded the Victoria Cross, is to be given a new memorial almost one-hundred years after his death. He was the first of 2,000 footballers to enlist in the First World War and was honoured by King George V after he ran across open ground to attack a German machine gun post, killing fifty men on 5 July 1916.
Jun 23, 2014 · 5 facts about Queen Victoria. 1. Victoria was the very first British monarch to use Buckingham Palace as her main royal residence. 2. Victoria was not her first name, she was named Alexandrina after her godfather Tsar Alexander I. However this name was withdrawn at her wish when she ascended the throne, and instead she used her middle name ...
Jun 11, 2015 · Edward Oxford on trial in June 1840. On 10 June he dressed smartly in a light silk waistcoat and brown frock coat – fittingly, it had previously been worn at a funeral – and set off at a brisk walk towards the palace. When he reached it he found crowds of people jostling for a glimpse of the queen, so he passed through the entrance and ...
Jan 9, 2019 · Portrait of Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660-1744), c. 1700, by Charles Jervas. Soon, childhood fun and games had to be put aside as marriage was on the horizon. In 1677, the 15-year-old Mary was the first to be wedded, and she was given to her first cousin, William of Orange. Soon after, Sarah began attracting attention.
May 13, 2019 · The critically-acclaimed Series Three of historical drama, Victoria, is released on Blu-ray and DVD today and we have copies of the DVD to giveaway to 3 lucky winners. Created by writer and producer Daisy Goodwin, the brand new series sees actress Jenna Coleman reprise her role as the young Queen, alongside Tom Hughes as Prince Albert. Starting ...
Apr 18, 2019 · Queen Victoria’s (1819-1901) marriage to her first cousin Prince Albert (1819-1861) in 1840 was controversial, not because of their close kinship but because while she was the descendant of a king (George III of Great Britain), and was born a royal princess (Her Royal Highness), he was the son of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saarfield, one of myriad minuscule German principalities.
Oct 18, 2016 · It was a scandal that kept the rumour-mill of Europe turning over well into the 18th Century. The story – as brief as we can tell it – is that a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, entered the service of Elector Ernest Augustus of Hanover, and then entered the bedchamber of his daughter-in-law, Sophia Dorothea of Cele.
May 2, 2018 · An estimated 66,000 Jews served with Britain during World War II, ranging from Victoria Cross heroes and soldiers to secret agents and air raid wardens. In his meticulously researched new 240-page book, Jews in Uniform (priced at £25) , photography archivist Michael Greisman brings together over 100 of their stories with portraits.
Jan 29, 2014 · On this day in 1856, Queen Victoria instituted Britain's highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross. Awarded to British and Commonwealth armed forces for outstanding bravery on the field of battle, it was originally made from the metal of cannon captured from the Russians at Sevastopol, until the supply came to an end in 1942. Since
