... Queen Victoria amused BY HECTOR BOLITHO THE PRINCE CONSORT died 100 years ago this year, and so began the widowhood that gave rise to the notion of Queen Victoria as a humourless tyrant, living in a crypt of self- pity. The notion, I believe, is a legend ...

... QUEEN VICTORIA USED TO STAY THERE A REGENCY GEM WITH A ROYAL HISTORY This former Royal residence, newly decorated inside and out, is for sale. It is known as Crown House, and is on the sea-front at Marina, St. Leonards. Queen Victoria used to stay there ...

... QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE WOODEN HORSE MKurviet Lee THAT elegant, charming and amusing couturier, Charles Creed, is writing his autobiography. It promises to be a far less staid document than Norman Hartnell's-- for Creed, whose mother was French, has a ...

... Heraldry in the Earl Marshal's Court at the College of Arms in Queen Victoria Street In London last week the Lord Mayor, Alderman Denys Lowson, went to the College of Arms in Queen Victoria Street, and there in the presence of the Duke of Norfolk, Earl ...

... pre pared to expect heavy Railway Board, deficits for seven more years, Queen Victoria: A New Verdict? I doubt whether anyone who has probed into t lie legend of (piccn Victoria can have been shocked or surprised by a recently published new verdict on ...

... THE GIPSIES OF KIRK YETHOLM How the Pipe-smoking Esther the Last Queen of the Gipsies, Was Crowned, and Came in Her Old Age to Meet Queen Victoria Written and Illustrated by VICTOR COVERLEY- PRICE Right at the far northern end of the Pennine Way, that ...

... Country Residence of Queen Victoria on the Isle of Wight, will Soon be Open to the Public Among the several buildings of historical interest on the Isle of Wight is Osborne House, for many years the private residence of Queen Victoria. Since her death in ...

... Royal Carriages From Windsor TH E GARDEN CHAIR used by Queen Victoria at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, and the other carriages in these photo graphs, have been lent by the Queen for exhibition at the Maidstone Carriage Museum. The Chair was drawn by a ...

... standard practice. The most ornate coaches on view are those used by Queen Victoria, and they are in marked contrast to the two built for the use of King Edward VII. QUEEN VICTORIA'S BEDROOM ON WHEELS This is one of the exhibits in Royal Journey, an ...

... wearing a dress which once belonged to Queen Victoria and in which, on March 4, Miss Thornton will open Eastbourne's two-day exhibition entitled Antiques and Treasured Possessions. The dress was made for Queen Victoria towards the end of her reign and is ...

... four-poster beds bottom the one 011 the left was used by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother when they were Duke and Duchess of York, and the other by Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort during a visit in 1844. Paintings by Veronese, Ga ...

... Pole Esq., depicts The Queen, Prince Albert and the Royal Children departing in their Rail way Carriage for Scot land in mid-century Queen Adelaide's saloon, 1842. The Dowager Queen Adelaide actually preceded Queen Victoria in rail travel ...